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A young Frasnois Henri Base will perform Billy Elliot in the famous musical played in Lille in 2015. Tournai The dancer Sandrine Plouvier is very closely associated with the great Franco-Belgian adventure.
Billy Elliot is the old English boy of ten years, son of mining workers in the eighties, which, thanks to its strength of conviction, convince his family to allow him to stop boxing classes where had entered his father, and to conduct studies in a large dance school.
Released in 2000, the film was a huge success. London musical "Billy Elliot, the Musical" is still showing since 2005 at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London. In a year or less, 21 March 2015 exactly, several artists from the Tournai participate in two performances scheduled on the stage of Sebastopol Lille and maybe a third in Tournai (nothing is yet set).
Billy Elliot is part of daily life for a few months artists gathered under the banner of ORPM the Pévèle-Mélantois based on the other side of the Franco-Belgian border regional orchestra. Rehearsals are linked, choreography and partitions are refined. Hubert Gressier, the head of ORPM in which he leads 40 musicians, is the basis of the project. His band is not afraid of challenges. The latest ones? The organization of a pageant staged to tell the Battle of Bouvine, and meeting two hundred singers and musicians around two works by Karl Jenkins. This time he will gather around a single project singers, singers, dancers and musicians. He did not know the existence of this musical in English before 2012. "Not before flipping the pages of a program left on a table during a weekend in Bonn" recalls Chief music that had enjoyed the film. The spark has sprung, it was to convince his staff, and find someone to help at the scenery. "By chance I met Sandrine (Plouvier) there is a year or less, via someone who attended his lectures tap in Tournai. There has been talk of the project, and we knew it was going to stick together " .
150 artists involved
Choreographer and dancer Tournai joined 100% to the project. Among the choice of actors and dancers could support its long-term undertaking, that of Billy Elliot was a natural choice to it: Henri Fitting, a resident of Frasnes aged 12, a student at Péruwelz and dancer in Tournai . "I give him over since he was little. I immediately knew he had everything to carefully consider the role " .
In "Dance Company and" Henri practice tap dancing since he was five years old. He also likes contemporary dance, jazz, classical techniques. Thirteen hours per week, which is now added the hours of rehearsal for Billy Elliot. Henry did not ask too many questions. Passion enough: he stage and dance in the skin. "I have not seen the movie yet, I'll do it soon," he said. "In recent weeks, I learn to ask better my voice and sing for my best role. Because not only I will dance but I give replicas of French theater, and I sing in English. "
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150 people are involved in the project, forty musicians, singers fifty, fifty dancers, a dozen actors.
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The eleven months that still divide the actors performances are not too many. "We are committed with amateur artists and volunteers but we want to achieve a level of excellence. Light sound, dance orchestration, computer graphics scenography, everyone's job is demanding. The e spectacle last two thirty " , insist Hubert Gressier and Sandrine Plouvier. 150 people are involved in the project, forty musicians, singers fifty, fifty dancers, a dozen actors ... The music (written by Elton John) has been re-orchestrated for the occasion by Hubert Gressier. The staging is inspired by the English musical comedy, but Sandrine Plouvier stood out what is in London, performing new choreography. "To reflect our specificities of our dancers, rhythm, repetition ... As the scenes are very long, between six and eight minutes on average, it takes much work to keep intact the energy and expression of interpreters " .
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Two families of Tournai embedded in the adventure
The Tournaisienne Sandrine Plouvier, choreographer of the show, has a key role in the preparation of "Billy Elliot." It is not a coincidence that the "hard core" of the dancers is from Tournai where she is currently a professor in the school of musical theater "Alpha Studio." "I'm doing my job as a dancer for ten years, and I'm a little tired of the status of artist. Billy Elliot The show will be one of the last major projects of my career as a dancer, that's how I am extremely motivated. " Sandrine is surrounded by a group of artists she knows by heart, to rub the within their own family or at dance class. Henri Fitting (Billy Elliot) will be on stage "company" of his two sisters, Mary and Adele (two "small" dancers). His dad, Peter, also played the role of his father in the musical. Dance is a family affair as the children and their parents are very involved in "Danse et Cie".
Sandrine Plouvier has also brought in its wake his brother for the role of Tony (brother of Billy). Translator in working life, sports correspondent for our newspaper, Gilles forms the musical and singing practice in recent years. He decided to put a lot of energy in his new adventure. "I had no difficulty in convincing" , rejoices Sandrine Plouvier. Who also hired his companion, Mathieu Decant, to get into the skin of boxing teacher (he will not say that text), and his daughter Leah to play the role of Debbie, Billy's girlfriend and daughter of dance teacher in the film. "With my brother, my daughter, my companion, my parents roles figuration, niece, my little boy perhaps, this is a real family" adventure. Other leading roles go to artists Tournaisis one of the dance teacher, the dancer Marjorie Heuskin;. one's best friend Billy, the young Esteban reffers; Mr Braithwaite (pianist of the dance teacher) is interpreted by Paris reffers.