This is the first international presentation of EXPRESS 2 TEMPS, after its premiere in France.

The performance EXPRESS 2 TEMPS is consecrated to the traces of memory that remain alive in us, say the authors Fattoumi & Lamoureux. The oeuvre is presented as a sort of journalistic report, testimony in the form of dance, based on the resetting of their first piece, the duo HUSAÏS, which made them well known on the choreographic scene. With this oeuvre they stared their twenty years fruitful collaborations that brought them up to here, as they say: “to look back together in our joint trajectory”.

The first step in the creation of EXPRESS 2 TEMPS is to convey the duo HUSAÏS to a four young dancers-collaborators, this duet that set down the determinant parameters of the choreographic approach of Fattoumi & Lamoureux. From this perspective, together with the dancers they are creating the new posture of the oeuvre HUSAÏS.      

EXPRESS 2 TEMPS sets into perspective two moments of their personal trajectory, far separated in time, allowing distance in the evocation of the creative process, a process constantly in movement, transferred to time that passes and the time that registers an oeuvre of life.
The choreographers Hela Fattoumi & Eric Lamoureux had a nomadic carrier in the past, in which they realised numerous residencies in France and other parts of the world. They are regularly associated to major choreographic events in France (Montpellier Danse, Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, Festival d’Avignon…) Beside their own creations, Héla Fattoumi and Eric Lamoureux always developed various pedagogical projects all over France. From the begging of their collaboration until now they have realised more than 20 choreographies that were presented on many different international festival in France and around the world.

Their first duet Husaïs(1989) won the SACD award for the best first work at the representative choreographic competition Rencontres Internationales de Bagnolet in 1990. Same year they created their own company Fattoumi & Lamoureux and they received in 1991 the SACD award for New Talents. From 2004 they are working as art directors of the National Choreographic Centre in Caen/ Bass Normanide.

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The performance EXPRESS 2 TEMPS is the first activity from the three years project for “Cultural exchange between Macedonia and the Region Bass Normandie/ France”

The main goal of this project is to reinforce the capacities of the local institutions, organizations, artists and cultural managers through exchange of the experience and competences. The main idea of the project is to: create a space for dialogue, creation and artistic mobility.
In the frames of this project, two other activities will be realised in 2008:

• Exchange of practice (6 cultural managers from different cultural organisations and institutions in Macedonia will visit different cultural organisation and institutions in Caen/ Bass Normandies) and
• One month professional internship in a cultural institution in Caen/ Bass Normandie

The activities that will follow in 2009 and 2010 are intended to support the cooperation in different art segments (performing and visual arts, literature etc), as well as to support a dialog for exchange of experience in the process of creation of the cultural policy in this two countries.  

Leading project partnersare Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture and the Regional Literacy Centre from Basse-Normandie (Le Centre régional des Lettres de Basse-Normandie)
Partner in the realisation of the performance Express 2 temps is the National Choreographic Centre in Caen/ Basse-Normandie;               
Performance in Macedonia is presented in a co-production between Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture and Macedonian National Theatre.
Project is supported by the French Ministry for foreign affaires, the Region Basse Normandie, and the Association of Local Democracy Agencies (ALDA). The French Cultural Centre in Macedonia logistically supports the project.