Grand Mal
Glocal Dances is the name Anne Lise Le Gac and Élie Ortis have given to the collection of amateur dance videos they found on Facebook and Youtube. This has triggered an unending conversation about the largely unknown dance style grand mal, which mostly takes place online because Élie lives in Paris and Anne Lise in Marseille. But every now and then the two of them get together and present their digital “trashure box” packed with Michel de Montaigne quotes on a stage. Grand Mal becomes an enraptured dancefloor without reservation. A lonely hearts club that devotes itself unconditionally to the music of none other than the Italian dance king Gigi D’Agostino.
lives in Marseille. She studied at the Université de Strasbourg from 2003 to 2008, focusing on performance art. She completed the ESSAIS master programme for dance at CNDC Angers in 2013. In 2014, she was part of the duet Boomerang, le retour à soi by choreographer Claudia Triozzi.
Le Gac also creates solo pieces and is involved in various collaborations, e.g. with Élie Ortis, Aymeric Hainaux and Pauline Le Boulba. Among other things, she has been co-organising the performance festival OKAY CONFIANCE with Élie Ortis since 2015.
creates fashion and is a designer. He also runs the website m-o-v-e-y-o-u-r-a-s-s.tumblr.com and collects pottery from Vallauris.
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