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A sensual, fluid, hypnotic exploration of a “human sculpture”: the bodies of five dancers pass, cross, follow, intertwine with each other. A video of dance, adaptation of choreographer Gilles Jobin’s “The Moebius Strip”.

The Moebius Strip, created at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris during the spring of 2001 became one of his most emblematic pieces. “On the stage, viewed as a white painting, bodies are thrown like splashes of colors, mixed as tint areas and given rhythm by the shades of the clothes” (Rosita Boisseau). This creation evokes his father’s paintings, Arthur Jobin, which alternate between geometrical rigor and intensive vibration of juxtaposed colors.

Dance film 26 minutes / choreography THE MOEBIUS STRIP recorded in december 2001 at the Arsenic, Lausanne.

Dance film 26 minutes / choreography THE MOEBIUS STRIP recorded in december 2001 at the Arsenic, Lausanne.
Premiered 8 mai 2001, Théâtre de la Ville Les Abbesses, Paris (France)
Choreography : Gilles Jobin
Dancers : Christine Bombal, Jean-Pierre Bonomo, Vinciane Gombrowicz, Gilles Jobin, Lola Rubio
Music : Franz Treichler
Light design : Daniel Demont

Here the dates of QUANTUM world tour. The piece will visit many countries and stay tuned for complementary programs of conferences and talks with Gilles Jobin and scientists. Meet  Julius Von BIsmarck, Carla Scaletti and Giles Jobin at BAM in  New York for the US première of QUANTUM. Gilles Jobin, CERN phycist Nicolas Chanon and visual artist Julius Von Bismarck  will meet the audience in San Francisco. In Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte  Brazilian  phycicist from CERN, Claudio Lenz Cesar will have public interactions with Gilles Jobin. Stay tuned via www.gillesjobin.com. Join our newsletter or follow the company on facebook. You can also get more info through >Gilles Jobin's blog gillescollides

QUANTUM - Teaser from Cie Gilles Jobin on Vimeo.

QUANTUM  WORLD TOUR  2013-15

-Première 23 september 2013  Théâtre Forum Meyrin Geneva @ CMS Experiment-Cessy France

QUANTUM world tour is part of events celebrating the 60th anniversary of CERN in 2014

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NORTH AMERICA

2-3-4th october  QUANTUM @ BAM/New York Next Wave Festival + Crossing The Lines Festival - New Settings Fondation Entreprise Hermes/USA

12-13th october QUANTUM @ ODC/San Francisco / USA + lecture about Cern residency with Cern physicist Nicolas Chanon. With the support of Swissnex San Francisco

16-17-18th october  QUANTUM @ TDC/Vancouver / CANADA

SOUTH AMERICA

21 october QUANTUM @ Festival Danzalborde/Matucana Theatre/Santiago de Chile/ CHILE

23 october  QUANTUM @ Festival Danzalborde/Valparaiso/ CHILE

26 october QUANTUM @ Bienal do Dança Do Ceara/Fortaleza/BRAZIL

29-30 october QUANTUM @ Festival Internacional Dança Belo Horizonte-FID/ BRAZIL  + conference CERN physicist with the support of Swissnex Brazil

2 november   QUANTUM @ Panorama Festival Rio de Janeiro/ BRAZIL + conference CERN physicist + Masterclass avec le soutien de Swissnex Brazil

EUROPE

6-7-8-9th november  QUANTUM @ ARSENIC/Lausanne SWITZERLAND

12-13-14th november   A+B=X @  ARSENIC/Lausanne SWITZERLAND (1997 creation rebuilt)

SOUTH AMERICA

21-22 november    QUANTUM @ FAEL Lima/PERU

2015 

27th February QUANTUM @ Mercat de La Flores / IDN Festival/Barcelona/SPAIN

November      QUANTUM @ Saarbrucken/GERMANY

Womb J-7 first on Sunday 6 November Festival Tous Ecrans!!!! Come discover this film in 3 D and high definition Cinérama Empire in Geneva. With the sets of Sylvie Fleury, the music of Franz Treichler (The Young Gods) the costumes of Jean-Paul Lespagnard. With Susana Panadés Díaz, Martin Roehrich and Gilles Jobin. Chief Photo Patrick Thresh.

WOMB J-7 première le dimanche 6 novembre Festival Tous Ecrans!!!! Venez découvrir ce film en 3D et haute définition Cinérama Empire à Genève. Avec les décors de Sylvie Fleury, la musique de Franz Treichler (The Young Gods) les costumes de Jean-Paul Lespagnard. Avec Susana Panadés Díaz, Martin Roehrich et Gilles Jobin. Chef photo Patrick Tresh.

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Geneva, 14 May 2012.

Space, time and gravity are under the cultural spotlight at CERN this month with the arrival of Gilles Jobin, the laboratory's first choreographer in residence and winner of the Collide@CERN Geneva prize, which is supported by the Canton and City of Geneva. Jobin is an internationally renowned Swiss choreographer with a company in Geneva. His CERN inspiration partner for his three-month residency at the laboratory will be the multi-media producer and visualisation specialist, João Pequenão, who studied physics at the University of Lisbon.
 
To mark the occasion, Gilles Jobin et João Pequenão will give a public presentation in CERN’s Globe of Science and Innovation on Wednesday 23 May about movement in dance and particle physics. Doors open at 18:30 with a prompt 19:00 start.
 
“It will be fascinating to see how Gilles Jobin explores particle physics through dance and movement following creative dialogues with CERN scientists and science,” said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer.
 
The Collide@CERN Geneva prize is the second strand in the Collide@CERN Artists Residency programme launched by CERN in 2011. Jobin was given the award by a jury for his proposal to explore through dance the relationship between mind and body at the world's largest particle physics laboratory.
 
“The opportunity to be in contact with what is the largest scientific experiment in the world in my own city is extraordinarily fascinating as well as intellectually challenging,” said Jobin. “Passion is what we share and a choreographer deals with time and space while CERN scientists deal with movement and space at sub atomic levels. Conceptually, for a choreographer to realize that gravity, the major force I am dealing with every day, is the weakest of the four fundamental forces of nature is mind blowing.”
 
At the 23 May presentation, Jobin and Pequenão will make individual presentations of their work and then discuss the potential of their forthcoming creative collisions at CERN. CERN’s cultural specialist, Ariane Koek will chair the discussion and take questions from the audience.
 
“Both Gilles and João have cross over connections which is what makes their partnership so exciting,” said Koek. “They are both experts in the visualisation of abstract ideas through movement – Gilles does this through dance, João does this through multimedia representations of the complexity of particle physics.”
 
During the residency, the public will be able to follow and comment on the experience and interchanges on a blog accessed through the Arts@CERN website featuring their exchanges. During his residency, Jobin will appear at the City of Geneva's Nuit de la Science on 7 and 8 July, and give a final lecture after the end of his residency in October.
 
Members of the public, including CERN personnel, who wish to attend should register their requests for seats with

merce.monje.cano@cern.ch.

Further information:Collide@CERN website

Gilles Jobin (CH) is the winner of the first Collide@CERN Geneva residency award. With an international reputation as a choreographer, early works A + B=X (1997) and The Moebius Strip (2000) were hailed as contemporary dance masterpieces. Apart from his own dance productions, which include the recently acclaimed Spider Galaxies, Gilles Jobin has made his company and Studio 44 a pioneering place, offering professional training for dancers and stimulating international exchange by means of various initiatives.

João Pequenão (Portugal) is a specialist in scientific visualization. He studied physics at the University of Lisbon, becoming increasingly interested in the multi-media possibilities and potential of communicating the science of particle physics through imaginative and digital means.

Gilles Jobin is a dance-tech.net member and a close collaborator since 2009.

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After having marvelled the audience of Latitudes Contemporaines in Lille in June 2011, and those of Malta Festival in Poznan, Poland, in July, A+B=X will at last, be shown in Switzerland again during the three performances staged at ADC in Geneva, on 6th, 7th and 8th October 2011.

Gilles Jobin’s first group piece, premiered at Lausanne Arsenic theatre in 1997 as part of Festival Les Urbaines, A+B=X was also the beginning of the musical collaboration with Franz Treichler and The Young Gods that will last until Two-Thousand-and-Three. Originally interpreted by Ana Pons Carrera, Nuria de Ulibarri and Gilles Jobin himself, it is re-created today with Susana Panadés Diaz, Isabelle Rigat and Louis-Clément Da Costa.

The organic bodies of A+B=X, real pieces of art, announce the aesthetics of many Gilles Jobin’s pieces to come...

« Gilles Jobin is the one who dared. No hand-to-hand in the duos, but inventive, and often sublime, lifts, stretching and offering the dancers at arm’s, or even at leg’s, length. » Dominique Frétard - Le Monde, 1999

"Gilles Jobin's A+B=X creates a new abstract of the human body. The three performers pull themselves through dim pools of greenish light in a series of extraordinary contortions; […] the low unnatural colour picking out their contours like an alien landscape." Hettie Judah, The Times, 1999

A+B=X extract (dancer Ana Pons Carrera)

Musique Franz Treichler and The Young Gods
Danseurs création Ana Pons Carrera, Gilles Jobin, Nuria de Ulibarri
Danseurs reprise Louis Clément da Costa, Susana Panadès Diaz, Isabelle Rigat
Assistant chorégraphique reprise Martin Roehrich
Apparition dans le film Franko B, Ana Pons Carrera, Gilles Jobin, Nuria de Ulibarri
Films Gilles Jobin
Lumières Daniel Demont
Régie lumière Marie Predour
Administration Mélanie Rouquier
Chargé de diffusion Pedro Jiménez Morrás

contact: +4122 331 00 50

info@gillesjobin.com

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dance-tech.tv presents THE MOEBIUS STRIP (2001) by Swiss Choreographer Gilles Jobin as part of Choreography or ELSE.

A sensual, fluid, hypnotic exploration of a “human sculpture”: the bodies of five dancers pass, cross, follow, intertwine with each other. A video of dance, adaptation of choreographer Gilles Jobin’s “The Moebius Strip”. The Moebius Strip, created at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris during the spring of 2001 became one of his most emblematic pieces. “On the stage, viewed as a white painting, bodies are thrown like splashes of colors, mixed as tint areas and given rhythm by the shades of the clothes” (Rosita Boisseau). This creation evokes his father’s paintings, Arthur Jobin, which alternate between geometrical rigor and intensive vibration of juxtaposed colors.

Watch THE MOEBIUS STRIP 

Choreography or ELSE, is an online series on dance-techTV featuring complete performances from international choreographers, dance artist or directors that continue to challenge traditional and contextual notions of choreography, dance and performance. They problematize the performance of movement  and the body experimenting with compositional and aesthetic strategies, dramaturgic approaches, non conventional spaces, appropriating uses of the new technologies, crossing disciplinary boundaries and cultural hybridity.

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