PROJECTs
Selected projects from the Ensemble Nuage Fou.
Site-specific performances with improvisational
elements based on Butoh quality.
BOUQUETS SILENCIEUX
EIN STRAUß!
Exhibition
BOUQUETS SILENCIEUX
Gilles Le Monnier
May 15 to 18, 2025
Vernissage in the presence of the artist
accompanied by the pianist Miku Arizono
Thur, 15 May 2025
7:00 pm
Schopf2, Schopfheimer Str. 2 in Freiburg
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Performance
EIN STRAUß!
Lucie Betz/ Nuage Fou (Butoh dance)
Joa Magnolia (Stilts)
Miku Arizono (Piano)
Kai Littkopf (Sounds)​
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With a group of dancers
Anastasia Gotzhein, Claude Kühorn,
Hanna Nöthig, Rita Burkard, Roland Altmann, Yifeng Wang & Yvonne Knam
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Sat, 17 May 2025
8:00 pm
Schopf2, Schopfheimer Str. 2 in Freiburg
Entrance 16/12 €
More information & registration
Reading Performance
ART OF BEING ... NATURE
Jürgen Reuß & Stephan Kuß
together with actress Renate Obermeier
and sound artist Kai Littkopf
Fri, 16 May 2025
8:00 pm
Pay After
LIVING WALLS
film projection on the façade of Schopf2.
approx. 10:00 pm
More information freiburger-filmforum.de
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​Events in cooperation with Schopf2, Freiburg.
Schopfheimer Str. 2 in Freiburg
​​More information www.schopf2.de
With the exhibition project “Bouquets silencieux”, French painter Gilles Le Monnier shows his current series of large-format black and white drawings for the first time.
Gilles Le Monnier spent a long time abroad (Algeria, Guatemala, Guyana) and his encounters have obviously had a profound impact on his artistic work. Since his return to France, he has been working in his studio near Paris and is currently devoting himself entirely to compositions of bouquets of various branches.
The “Silent Bouquets” present themselves to us like bodies on stage and inspire
his daughter, the Butoh dancer and choreographer Lucie Betz, to create a Butoh performance in the exhibition. With “Ein Strauß!”, Lucie Betz develops her first solo performance to a drawing from Gilles Le Monnier's series (beginning of January 2025 in the Delphi-space gallery) into a larger performance.
The reading performance “Art of being ... Nature” will also be shown as part of the exhibition, for which Freiburg authors Jürgen Reuß and Stephan Kuß, together with actress Renate Obermeier and sound artist Kai Littkopf, will meld world literature into a lithogenetic, botanical, insectoid, animalistic, monstrous evolution, in which the continued existence of humans depends on their ability to metamorphose.
LÜCKE
Joan Laage/ Kogut Butoh &
Lucie Betz/ Nuage Fou (Butoh dance)
Miku Arizono (Piano)
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With a group of dancers
Agnès Bouzanne, Kathi Dunkel, Renate Stirm-Mödinger, Roland Altmann, Yifeng Wang & Yvonne Knam
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Performance
Sat, 29 and Sun, 30 March 2025
7:00 pm
Archaeological Collection of the University of Freiburg
Habsburgerstraße 114-116, 79106 Freiburg
Entrance donation
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​Events in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Jens-Arne Dickmann, organized and conceived by Lucie Betz & supported by the Cultural Office (Kulturamt) - City of Freiburg.
Workshop
led by Joan Laage/ Kogut Butoh
Embodying the Spirit:
The body finds its way
Fri, 28 March 2025
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Sat 29, & Sun, 30 March 2025
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
150€
Archaeological Collection of the University of Freiburg
Habsburgerstraße 114-116, 79106 Freiburg
More information & registration
It is a composition with dance, voice and music in this place, full of ancient sculptures and stories. The performance “LÜCKE” raises questions about our relationship to the “living” and thus attempts to bring us closer to our deep, ephemeral, emerging and disappearing human existence in a poetic and humorous way.
The collection becomes a mysterious terrain, a landscape in flux.
LICHT!
Joan Laage & Lucie Betz (Butoh dance)
Ryo Yamanishi (E-Piano)
Hartmut Betz (Lighting)
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Performance
Wed, 23 October 2024
8:00 pm
15€/ 11€
E-WERK Bildhauerhalle
Eschholzstr. 77, 79106 Freiburg
Reservation www.ewerk-freiburg.de
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Event cooperated with E-Werk Freiburg
& supported by the Cultural Office
(Kulturamt) - City of Freiburg.
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Workshop
led by Joan Laage/ Kogut Butoh
Embodying the Spirit:
The body finds its way
Sat, 26 October 2024
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Sun, 27 October 2024
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
140€/ 120€
BIK Studio
Vaubanallee 8, 79100 Freiburg
More information & registration luciebetz@nuagefou.com ​
The performance project LICHT! is a new opportunity to use special places
to create a unique encounter between Butoh dance, music and light.
In a place that awakens the taste for experimentation, this time
the Ensemble Nuage Fou presents a work about disappearance.
A radical and sensitive dialogue between the elements of an improvised
composition, with artists from three different continents.
Recording Butoh, Wednesday 23.10. 2024
SWR Kultur
REFUGE
Joan Laage & Lucie Betz (Butoh dance)
Miku Arizono & Ryo Yamanishi (piano)
Hartmut Betz (Lighting)
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Performance
Fri, 19 and Sat, 20 April 2024
8:00 pm
15€/ 12€
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Workshop
led by Joan Laage/ Kogut Butoh
Embodying the Spirit:
The body finds its way
Sat, 20 and Sun, 21 April 2024
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
130€/ 110€
Schopf2 - Schopfheimer Str. 2, 79115 Freiburg
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Event cooperated with the Schopf2, Freiburg.
In the small nooks and crannies of our cracked, broken house, a whole new light seeps in, an impossible journey to be made together if possible.
A blending of compositions, notes and improvisations.
REFUGE is a Butoh performance project and a workshop* project at
the same venue, Schopf2 in Freiburg.
*For those interested, information and registration luciebetz@nuagefou.com.
under the stars
Miku Arizono (piano) & Geneviève Mégier (cello).
Makiko Tominaga, Joan Laage & Lucie Betz
(Butoh dance)
Ida Biegel & Yifeng Wang (dance)
Hartmut Betz (Lighting)
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Sat, 29 and Sun, 30 April 2023
8:00 pm
Northern courtyard of the `Herderbaus´ of the university.
Access Habsburgerstr. 114-116, 79106 Freiburg.
Admission on donation basis.
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Event cooperated with the Archaeological Collection,
from the university of Freiburg & supported by the
Cultural Office (Kulturamt) - City of Freiburg.
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Ensemble Nuage Fou's new performance project is a sensory experience
centered around a musical sound installation.
The inner courtyard of the 'Herderbaus' as the location of the performance
poses the question of where we are, inside - outside or in a space in between?
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ALL DANCES! ALL SOUNDS! and vibrates: bodies, emotions and structures,
on the border between dream and stranger, day and night, where we can
approach our disappointments and our hopes.
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Photo gallery here
PRELUDE FOR A SMILE
Ensemble Nuage Fou on tour in Algeria, in the framework of the Sahara International Theater
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Lucie Betz & Makiko Tominaga (Butoh dance)
Thomas G. Schoch (Sound & wind instruments)
Hartmut Betz (Violin)
Peter Maria Hoever (Play & Construction)
Kim Betz (Voice & text)
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Mon, 19 December 2022
in TIZI-OUZOU - regional theater Kateb Yacine
Sat, 24 December 2022
in ADRAR - open air in the desert
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Festival organised with the support of the
Algerian Ministery of Culture and Local authorities
in Adrar and the Knights of stage Association for Performing Arts.
Support by the Cultural Office (Kulturamt) of
the City of Freiburg.
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Prelude for a smile, with text fragments from the little prince by Saint-Exupéry,
is a performance project about the dialogue between a diversity of worlds!
We imagined a performance especially for the desert, with dialogue as
the theme for this festival. The construction of a center with stones, "planet" dancers,
a little girl little prince, St.Exupéry violinist becoming the fox, the sounds of the
universe and the meeting of all these worlds.
We are proud to have received the jury's award and to have touched
an African audience.
zwischen den wölken
Lucie Betz & Makiko Tominaga (Butoh dance)
Geneviève Mégier (Cello)
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Sat, 17 and Sun, 18 July 2021
8:00 pm
Maria Magdalena Church
Maria-von-Rudloff-Platz 1, 79111 Freiburg
12€/ 20€ support
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Project supported by a grant from the
Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg.
How can they make this strange rigid line dance ?
What spaces of play emerge between the bodies, the forms and everything ?
A floating, tense, rigid, weightless, ... living distance for a poetic dialogue
with the cello, the spectator and the space.
The current situation of spatial distancing questions more than ever the relationship
between us humans. In a real moment of live performance, can we still listen
to this space in between and create intimacy ?
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Photo gallery here
