La vie, c'est contagieux
(1993)
Film La Vie, c'est contagieux
AT 1994
documentary about the process of creation with Jean Babilée
director: Wolfram Paulus, Salzburg 1994
locations: Szene Salzburg, Editta Braun's private apartment
premiere: 26 May 1994, Szene Salzburg
length: 24 min.
Stage Version
dance: Jean Babilée (FR), Georg Blaschke, Editta Braun, Eva Holz-Dahrenstaedt, Eva Forstenlechner (2nd cast: Céline Guillaume, FR)
composition: Peter Valentin, light design: Albert Haderer
choreography, costumes, stage set: Editta Braun
Touring: Tokyo International Choreography Competition/Japan, Artist in residence Szene Salzburg, Odeon Theater Wien, Festival Cour des Capucins Luxemburg, Festival Salzburg:Tanz, Landestheater Innsbruck, „estival danses“ Théâtre du Gymnase Paris/France, Stadtsaal Vöcklabruck
Documentary by Wolfram Paulus, 24 Min.
FULL LENGTH PIECE, 54 min.
The evolution of a father-daughter-relation in the course of a woman's life.
Dance quintet with the French dance legend Jean Babilée, created 1993/94 in Paris and Salzburg, premiere 18 March 1994, Théâtre Jean Vilar de Vitry/Paris
Reactions on «La vie, c'est contagieux»
... I t takes an enormous amount of courage and also innocence to engage a deity like Jean B. to dance.
And she's made a wonderful success, the young choreographer E.B., sure of herself...she is full of fire, in flames,
embraces life with both arms...a subtle, deeply-felt work which honors both the interpretation and the
choreographer. "
J.M. Gourreau in Les Saisons de La Danse , Paris
Le credo de Jean Babilée ... Editta Braun ... practices a form of expressionalistic dance which is unique in it's power
and softness, a passionate dance ... "
Gilberte Cournand in Les Saisons de la Danse, Paris, Juni 1994
A declaration of love, romantic, emotional, full of honest openess. Simply wonderful.
Ilse Retzek in Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, Linz
Monsieur Jean Babilée! ... How he sits on the sofa speaks volumes about theater history...About getting old and older, about the relationship between man and woman. The choreographer from Salzburg has slaved for five creating this moving, one-hour piece...With her athletically-powerful and explosive style of dance she appears so immediate. Respectfully interwoven: Babilee the great, in repose.
Andrea Amort in Kurier, 2. Juni 1994, Wien