Corps & accords

An unprecedented collaboration

The Corps et Accords exhibition was born from the collaboration between the Conservatoire du 10e Hector Berlioz and three photographers. This cooperation took shape through exchanges between the Conservatoire and the Centre Paris Anim’ Jean Verdier (CRL10). Then, it is through the cultural association Images O Pluriel and the three member photographers that the project materialized.

The association Images O Pluriel has the mission of bringing photography and video to life and showcasing them in all their forms. It champions visual expression as a powerful vehicle for culture, dialogue and sharing. Images O Pluriel organizes photography and video workshops at the Centre Paris Anim’ Jean Verdier.

An artistic look at the Conservatoire du 10e

At the Conservatoire Hector Berlioz in the 10th arrondissement, photographers Céline Bonnarde, Christian Campion and Sophie Campion cast their gaze on two responding disciplines.

Céline captures the musicians of the Conservatoire Big Band during a jazz concert at the Petite Halle de La Villette: listening, rhythm, dialogue between instruments, each person's place within the ensemble and the space left for interpretation.

Sophie and Christian follow classical dance students during a ballet class: learning, repetition of movements, precision of postures, but also attention paid to others and those moments when individualities unite in a shared movement.

Three artists, three perspectives intertwining to tell the same reality: learning alone and progressing together, mastering in order to better let go, until that fragile moment when the learned movement becomes an artistic gesture and where, from the individual to the collective, emotion is born.

; Credits: Sophie Campion

Individuality does not disappear in the collective: it nurtures it

; Credits: Celine Bonnarde

Repeating a gesture. Again and again.

Seeking the accuracy of a movement, a posture, a note. Listening, observing,

starting over. Learning to master one's body, instrument, rhythm.

Because before free movement, there is the repeated gesture. Before improvisation, listening. Before

emotion, hours of work, rigor and attention.

This work is first and foremost intimate. Everyone learns, repeats, refines their gesture, finds their rhythm and

builds their own mastery. But learning is also done together. One must learn to

listen to the other, to look, to harmonize, to find one's place.

Dancing together. Playing together. Becoming one body, one group.

Individuality does not disappear in the collective: it nurtures it. Every gesture, every

presence, every interpretation contributes to a common movement. We progress alone,

but also in contact with others.

Then, little by little, forget.

Forget technique to let something else appear: an intention, a presence, an

emotion. The body frees itself, musicians converse, the gesture becomes interpretation.

It is in this space, between mastery and letting go, between individuality and the collective, between

discipline and expression, that dance and music meet.

A Town Hall open to culture

The exhibition will be presented from 2 to 20 November on the 2nd floor of the Mairie du 10e, which regularly hosts numerous artistic events in its hall, its festive hall, its wedding hall, but also its walkways.

Opening reception on Monday 2 November at 19h