About
Silent Legacy brings together two forces in dance: young Krump prodigy Adeline Kerry Cruz and Siaska Chareyre. Both artists combine radical authenticity with their interpretative strength through Krump and contemporary dance. Their dialogue questions identity, the sociology of gender, heritage and dance culture.
KUUMBA30 is presented by TD Bank Group through the Bank’s Corporate Citizenship platform the TD Ready Commitment.
About Maud Le Pladec
Following her studies at the National Choreographic Center of Montpellier, Maud Le Pladec has danced for choreographers Georges Appaix, Loïc Touzé, Mathilde Monnier, Mette Ingvartsen, and Boris Charmatz. In 2010, she premiered her first piece, Professor, the first section of a diptych centred on the music of Fausto Romitelli. The second section followed in 2012 with Poetry.
In 2013, Le Pladec became a laureate of the French Institute’s Hors les Murs program. In 2015, she began a new cycle of works giving voice to women by co-authoring Hunted with the New York choreographer-performance artist Okwui Okpokwasili. In 2016, she worked with the Paris National Opera for Eliogabalo with stage director Thomas Jolly, under the musical direction of Leonardo Garcia Alarcon.
In January 2017, she succeeded Josef Nadj as director of the National Choreographic Center of Orleans, where she has since premiered Borderline with the stage director Guy Cassiers, Je n’ai jamais eu envie de disparaître with the writer Pierre Ducrozet, the solo Moto-Cross and Twenty-seven perspectives for the 2018 Festival Montpellier Danse. In 2021, she presented Static Shot with the CCN – Ballet de Lorraine, and Counting Stars with You (Musiques Femmes), a creation dedicated to women composers in the musical heritage.
The common thread running through Maud Le Pladec’s work is her strong commitment to gender equality and her attachment to music, the visual arts and text. She is a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters and of the National Order of Merit. Maud Le Pladec was named Director of Dance for the four ceremonies of the 2024 Paris Olympics Games. She will be the new director of the CCN-Ballet de Lorraine from January 2025.
About Adeline Kerry Cruz
“We used to listen to a lot of hip-hop music when Adeline was a baby and she always seemed to move with those big aggressive movements. We decided to put her in hip-hop classes when she was four, at the Urban Element Zone. From her first class, she learned the elements of hip-hop (D. J., Graffiti, B-Boy, M. C. ). We knew we were in the right place. At the time, she was taking ballet and hip-hop classes and she really loved them both. She always loved to dance and when music was playing anywhere, she couldn’t help herself but to feel it and dance to it…
In 2019, she auditioned to be part of a hip-hop troupe at UEZ and was successful. She had never been so proud of herself. She repeated the moves with her father in the living room and danced constantly in front of the mirror. In 2020, she was about to enter her first competition dance when the pandemic hit and all the dance classes were paused. At the time, her studio didn’t offer anything online, but dancing was what she loved the most and nothing could stop her from doing so. She kept dancing in the mirror and putting on shows at home.
In 2020, we were contacted by the dance company Jacob Jonas The Company that had seen videos her father had posted on his personal Instagram where she danced. Jacob asked her if she wanted to [dance] in one of their films (Sit Still) as part of their dance film series. The director of the film, Vincent René Lortie, wanted to show expression through dance and decided to use the style krump as a means of expression. Adeline had never taken krump lessons before, but she was incredibly happy to resume classes – this time on Zoom with the world-renowned krumper, Russell “Gutta” Ferguson. After a few weeks of rehearsals, she [danced] in the video.
From that moment onward, krump took over her. It was almost as if the little krump choreographic vocabulary that Russell had shown her during those two weeks had allowed her to express herself fully. In March 2021, [Adeline] made contact with Jr Maddripp, a Parisian krumper who lived in Montreal and who had studied for years with one of the creators of krump, Tight Eyez. Jr Maddripp took Adeline under his direction and helped her develop her own krump vocabulary. She began to learn the art of storytelling stories through dance and the power of krump to express her emotions, her ideas and even her imagination.”
— by Mandy, Adeline Kerry Cruz’s mother
About Siaska Chareyre
Siaska Chareyre is a contemporary dancer currently based in Lyon. She discovered dance through modern jazz, which she practiced for nearly 10 years before taking an interest in contemporary dance at the CRR de Lyon. She then joined the professional training program for dancers, as well as the young ballet Désoblique, where she deepened her technical and artistic knowledge. In 2019, Siaska Chareyre continued her apprenticeship at SEAD Salzburg, graduating in July 2023. During her stay in Austria, she rubbed shoulders with different artists and explored a wide range of techniques and practices. Siaska is currently performing with Maud Le Pladec, in the pieces Silent Legacy and Twenty-seven perspectives.
Credits
Conception, artistic direction and choreography: Maud Le Pladec feat. Jr Maddripp
Choreography assistant: Régis Badel
Music composed, arranged, performed & produced by: Chloé Thévenin
Voice coach: Dalila Khatir
Musical dramaturgy assistant: Pere Jou
Dancers: Adeline Kerry Cruz and Siaska Chareyre (in lieu of Audrey Merilus)
Costume design: Christelle Kocher – KOCHÉ
Costume assistant: Marion Régnier
Lights and stage design: Éric Soyer
General manager: Fabrice Le Fur or Mélissandre Halbert
Light manager: Nicolas Marc
Sound manager: Vincent Le Meur or Justine Pommereau
Production and development: A propic (Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent and Lara van Lookeren)
Production: Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans
Co-production: Festival d’Avignon / Par.BL.eux, Centre culturel canadien à Montréal (Québec) / Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse avec le soutien de Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels. / Le Carreau Scène nationale de Forbach et de l’Est mosellan / La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand Scène nationale / Scène nationale d’Orléans / Les Halles de Schaerbeek Bruxelles (Belgique) / Ville de Fontenay-sous-Bois – Fontenay en scènes Ville de Fontenay-sous-Bois – Fontenay en scènes / Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix Hauts-de-France
Residencies: Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans / Théâtre d’Orléans en collaboration avec la Scène nationale d’Orléans / ParB.L.eux, Centre culturel canadien à Montréal (Québec).
The Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans is supported by the Ministère de la Culture — D.R.A.C Centre- Val de Loire, the Ville d’Orléans, the Région Centre-Val de Loire, the Conseil Départemental du Loiret. With the help of the Institut français — Ministère des affaires étrangères for international tours.
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Venue
Fleck Dance Theatre in Queen’s Quay Terminal
A traditional proscenium theatre with fixed raked seating on two levels.
207 Queens Quay West, 3rd Floor
Follow signs and take escalator or elevator