IN-SITU: DANCE FILM COMPOSITION

Composition Workshop for Dance Films

January-May 2026: Online meetings and work sessions

June 15-27, 2026 @CENTQUATRE-PARIS: workshop, rehearsals, screening/concert

Ircam is offering a composition workshop for short dance films, led by Thierry De Mey, in collaboration with the virtuoso soloists of the BL!NDMAN saxophone quartet [sax] and Ircam computer music designers. The aim is to explore the instrumental possibilities offered by electronics, based on a short video.

A demanding and interdisciplinary artistic practice, dance film brings together several forms of movement into a coherent poetic gesture. Cinema and dance place the human body at the center of creation, where music is most often the starting point: dance reacts to pre-existing sound, then film captures the choreographic proposal. Here, on the contrary, the musical composition will be created in response to the film. But played “live,” the music will be able to take advantage of this opportunity for visual counterpoint and multidimensional play, so that the whole merges into a new sensory experience during the screening/concert.

Participants choose from film clips featuring choreographies with very different aesthetics, created by Thierry De Mey, who will be following their work. They will write either for one of the instrumentalists, as a soloist with electronics, or for a duo with electronics, or for the acoustic quartet.

Tutors: Thierry De Mey (composer, director), Serge Lemouton & Grégoire Lorieux (Ircam computer music designers)

BL!NDMAN [sax]: Pieter Pellens (soprano saxophone), Hendrik Pellens (alto and soprano saxophone), Piet Rebel (tenor saxophone), Sebastiaan Cooman (baritone saxophone)

Application call open until November 12: https://www.muvac.com/fr/masterclass/ircam-kyrz2ddy