ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses a recent dance-music piece, D'apres une histoire vraie, created in 2013 by the conceptually driven French choreographer Christian Rizzo, who is also responsible for the stage design and the costumes, and two musicians, Didier Ambact and King Q4, who composed the score and perform onstage for the duration of the show along with eight male dancers. The production of a series of dance performances based on the idea of re-enacting and citing historical pieces or traditional repertoires of different origins has become a major trend in Western contemporary dance. Contemporary dance is generally considered as ephemeral and as part of a historical progression, whereas folk dance is perceived as the living repertoire of a local and uninterrupted memory. Folk dance and music are here assumed not as the predominant realms of ethnology and anthropology but as relevant elements of contemporary dance-music practices.
