As part of the Rendez-vous aux jardins, on 6 and 7 June, dedicated this year to the meaning of sight, the Musée Bourdelle invites the public to take a renewed look at its gardens.
By inviting the choreographer Eva Klimackova and the dancer Leandro Villavicencio to dance in the gardens, the piece "PURE" highlights the living dialogue between the moving bodies and the surrounding vegetation.
Visits to inclusive sensory gardens, accessible to both sighted and blind audiences, offer an experience of the garden beyond just looking. These visits echo the exceptional collaboration of the association Valentin Haüy, partner of this edition.
Finally, charcoal drawing workshops invite families to capture unexpected points of view on plant species while initiations to cyanotype, an old photographic process, reveal the poetry and beauty of gardens in a different way.
"PURE" dance performance in the gardens
By choreographer and dancer Eva Klimackova and dancer Leandro Villavicencio
Saturday, June 6 and Sunday, June 7 at 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Duration of each performance: 25 minutes
Free admission, subject to availability
Through the structure of the dance duo, "PURE" explores the plasticity of two bodies who carry in each of their gestures the singularity of a journey from another culture - or several cultures - and who invent spaces to connect; an organic and fluid relationship of bodies and materials. 'PURE' unfolds time in a sensory and tactile search where bodies take turns, unfold, intertwine, overlap, balance themselves ad infinitum with a very singular musicality of gesture. By letting appear a plasticity of forms, lines, curves, folds and materials without hierarchy "PURE" is loaded with memory and dotted with imprints.
Choreography: Eva Klimackova
Dance: Eva Klimackova, Leandro Villavicencio
Music: An empty snail, Jonathan Lefèvre-Reich
Eva Klimackova
Dancer, choreographer and pedagogue, of Slovak origin, living in Paris since 2001, Eva Klimackova studied at the Higher School of Liberal Arts in Bratislava (1995-2000). At the same time, she continues to enrich her practice in Tai-Chi-Chuan and in Body Mind Centering, certified as an educator in 2016.
Eva Klimackova has collaborated with many choreographers in Slovakia (Anna Sedlackova, Studio tanca, Milan Kozanek, Kata Mojzisova, Marta Polakova...), in the Czech Republic (company Dejadonné – Simone Sandroni, cie Duwadance ), in France (company Kubilai Khan Investigations, company Petite Fabrique, Faustin Linyekula, company Les Ouvreurs de Possibles...), in Belgium (Karine Ponties, David Hernandez, Lise Duclaux )...
She has also taught in Paris (Ménagerie de verre, Rencontres internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Micadanses, ACTs, Canaldanse), CCN d'Orléans, the University of Orléans, Le Pacifique – CDC Grenoble, Poitiers, La Rochelle (CESMD), TPE Bezons, Limoges, Tours, Brussels (Espace catastrophe, Laster studio), Prague (ProArt, Dance perfect, Druna), Slovakia (Bratislava University, Banska Bystrica Higher Conservatory, Elledanse, Lab1), Vietnam (Higher Conservatory), the University in Latvia, Warsaw, Dance Studio Kabako (DR of Congo).
In 2007 she founded the company E7KA, based and subsidized by the Centre-Val de Loire Region. The company has created since the shows: Alzbeta (2007), Alzbeta Hlucha (2008), Ivanuska (2009), Touch.ed (2011), the diptych MOVE / (2014), Ouvrir le temps (2016), PURE (2017), TRACES (2019), MELTING TIMES (2020), la performance Manifeste (2022), MIGRATIONS INVISIBLES (2023) and COCON (2025), presented more than one hundred and fifty times in France, Belgium, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia, Latvia, Italy, Poland and Hong Kong.
