[June 10 2024] : Magazine
marie-agnès gillot and charlotte dauphin in valentino f/w 2023-24
TRIBUTE TO PINA BAUSCH’S DANCE INSURRECTION
Valentino F/W 2023-24
photography by Andrea Spotorno
with Marie-Agnès Gillot and Charlotte Dauphin
Shot at POUSH in Aubervilliers, france, a center for exhibitions, performances, and artist residencies. POUSH has welcomed over 250 artists, hosting programs,
exhibitions, and events with local roots and international impact. This alternative space, located just outside paris, aims to open the city to the suburbs
and influence the French artistic scene.
Marie-Therese Haustein, style
Jacob Kajrup at M+A group, hair
Satoko Watanabe at Artlist, make-up
Eleonora Gustapane and Robin Jeant, photographer’s assistants
Brittany Lovoi, stylist’s assistant
All clothes from the Valentino Black Tie collection
INTERVIEW WITH MARIE AGNÈS GILLOT AND CHARLOTTE DAUPHIN
by OLIVIER ZAHM
OLIVIER ZAHM — How did you both meet?
CHARLOTTE DAUPHIN — I really
wanted to make a film about dance, so my coproducer Rosalie Mann and I contacted my favorite prima ballerina. I was lucky that she was seduced by the project and immediately accepted.
OLIVIER ZAHM — What does the world of dance mean to you, Charlotte? A bubble outside the world or a reflection of the world?
CHARLOTTE DAUPHIN — I started
out as a dancer. Then dance left me. It was a great loss for me to have to leave this world. Dance is another way of expressing the world — experimental, musical, corporeal, and enigmatic.
OLIVIER ZAHM — Long before painting, cinema, and other art forms, dance was perhaps one of the first human art forms.
MARIE-AGNÈS GILLOT — It’s the art of the body: the body as gesture, as rhythm, as sign.
OLIVIER ZAHM — So, it’s an “original” form of humanity. Even if animals also dance, during courting rituals.
MARIE-AGNÈS GILLOT — Yes, you’re right. Dance is the first art form. It’s undoubtedly a revolution at the very beginning of humanity. For man, it was probably also a defense system: a form of gathering to avoid being eaten by animals, to frighten them away with the movement of the group and the noise made together. When you dance, you gather together and you can ward off danger or conjure it.
CHARLOTTE DAUPHIN – Everything is dance. Everything is movement and gesture. With everyday life becoming increasingly immaterial, saturated with signs and screens,...
