Dance/Music

A dancer for choreographers such as Daniel Larrieu and ChristineJouve, Thomas Lebrun founded his own dance company (Illico) in2000, and was associated with the Choreographic DevelopmentCentre of Dance in Lille from 2005 to 2011, before becoming director of the National Choreographic Centre of Tours in 2012. Lebrun has a strong will to share his art and receive from others. He regularly collaborates with overseas dance companies and dancers (such as the Chinese National Ballet of Liaonning or South Korean artists) and gives a very important place to pedagogy (he teaches at Paris Conservatoire of Music and Dance).

Lied and ballet are two very important artistic forms from the romantic period of the first half of the 18th century. In his latest
production, created in July 2014 at the Avignon Festival, Thomas Lebrun brings them face to face, using the lieder texts as a score and the main source for the choreographic composition. Divided into three acts – the traditional structure in ballet – Lied Ballet proposes a journey from abstraction (1st act) to modernity (3rd act), without eluding references to classical ballet in a second act where eight dancers are joined by a tenor and a pianist for a live performance of famous lieder by Berg, Mahler or Schoenberg.