Performers 2011 - 2012
Jean-Laurent Sasportes
Jean-Laurent SASPORTES was born in Casablanca in January 1952. 1970 till 1975: Studies Mathematics, Physics an Philosophy in Marseille. 1975: Breaks-off his University studies and begins to study modern dance in Paris with Peter Goss .
He studied dance with Anne Marie Porras (Jazz),Peter Goss, Hans Züllig, Jean Cebron (modern dance), Nina Vyroubova, Suzanne Oussov (ballet). Diverse experiences with choreographers (Kei Takei, Alwyn Nikolais) completed his dancer and teacher formation (French degree for modern dance teacher). He practise Kinomichi (with M. Noro, founder of Kinomichi and of the International Kinomichi Center in Paris) and Tai Chi since more than twenty years. Since 1979, solo-dancer in the Pina Bausch Company, he dances in all repertory pieces through most of almost all important performing events and places around the world. From 1996 and till today, he is engaged as guest soloist with the Pina Bausch Companyfor the repertory pieces (Cafe Muller, 1980, Bandoneon, Victor, Palermo, Ancestors, Carnation).
In 1989 he started to work together with the musician Peter Kowald. This collaboration will be the beginning of his work in improvisation and structured improvisation dance. From then on, he developed this direction of work in collaboration with many other musicians as Hans Reichel (Germany), Gunda Gottschalk (Germany), Peter Jaquemyn (Belgium), Tetsu Saitoh (Japan). Different little dance pieces have been created out of those collaborations, and the repertory is now proposed under the name of “Short Pieces One” and “Short Pieces Two”. This Duos work have been and still are presented through many countries around the world (Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Greece, Estonia, Canada, USA, Japan). Since 2006, J-L Sasportes and Tetsu Saitoh presented their Duo work in collaboration with other musicians, to more then fifteen towns through Japan (please see: Japan Tour 2006 and Japan Tour 2007).
