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Salerno
In 2020, Ondine Cloez, accompanied by performers Anne Lenglet, Clémence Galliard, and lighting designer Vic Grevendonk, created L’art de conserver la santé (The Art of Staying Healthy). Inspired by the eponymous collection, this spoken, sung, and danced piece presents aphorisms from the 13th-century Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum or The Art of Staying Healthy. It is a collection of advice and recommendations written in the form of short poems in alexandrines to maintain good health. It discusses the elements that, in the Middle Ages, came into contact with the human body and affected its state of health: plants, vegetables, legumes, meat, fish, but also drinks, love, air, winds, causes of ringing in the ears, diseases, seasons, baths, and more. An outdoor version, La ballade des simples, will follow, taking the form of a sung guided tour for parks and gardens.
In May 2022, the Théâtre de Poche de Hédé-Bazouges invited Ondine Cloez for a long residency. She then suggested to her collaborators that they continue the adventure by creating a music group: SALERNO, to set to music these medieval aphorisms that have accompanied them for several years already.
Credits
By and with Anne Lenglet, Clémence Galliard, Ondine Cloez, Vic Grevendonk
Production Entropie Production
Dissemination and tour production ama brussels – France Morin, Clara Schmitt, Emi Parot, Babacar Ba
Created at Théâtre de Poche de Hédé in May 2022 (production Théâtre de Poche – Hédé-Bazouges / direction le joli collectif – Scène de territoire pour le théâtre Bretagne romantique & Val d’Ille-Aubigné)
Anne Lenglet, Clémence Galliard, Ondine Cloez et Vic Grevendonk
Ondine Cloez (1979) is a French choreographer and performer based in Brussels. She began by training in classical dance at the National Conservatory of Grenoble. In 1998, she moved to Brussels and studied at P.A.R.T.S. for three years. She participated in the Ex.e.r.ce training at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, in 2002.
Since then she has worked as a performer for Mathilde Monnier, Laurent Pichaud, Linda Samaraweerova, Marcos Simoes, Sara Manente, Jaime Llopis, Randy Carreno, Rémy Héritier, Antoine Defoort & Halory Goerger, Grand Magasin, Jocelyn Cottencin, Loïc Touzé, Gaël Santisteva… In 2009, she co-signed with Sara Manente and Michiel Reynaerts the video Some Performances and the in situ project Grand Tourists. In 2018 she created her first piece, the solo Vacances vacance and L’art de conserver la santé in October 2020. In the wake of this creation she proposes a declination for outdoor La Ballade des Simples.
In 2020 and 21, Ondine Cloez is artist in residence at the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers. Starting from the 13th century work, L’art de conserver la santé, she multiplies the proposals in arborescence: a choreographic piece, walks and visits, conferences extending her reflection on health and the Middle Ages.
In 2022, in collaboration with the dancer, actor and choreographer Kotomi Nishiwaki, she began research for a duet The first word of the poem of the first collection is basket.