Cercle by Vilnja Nielsen

Cercle is a sound research project lasting 2h40 defended as a DNSEP thesis, 2019.

It was followed by a collective performance presented at the DNSEP Art 2019 at the HEAR in Strasbourg with : Lola Jacrot, Marie Fabry, Nathalie Spaulding, Charlotte Fourneuf Niel, Nicolas Brunelle, Victor Dyian, Martin Bas and Mécisthée Rhéa.

Director of research : Lidwine Prolonge


Cercle, can be presented as an immersion through my research,
my universe,
what drives me and makes me vibrate.
My backbone.
The search for trance through sound, song, but also the body and dance.
What are the emotions that run through us?
What are the worlds that inhabit us?
The journey, through worlds
but also and above all through the world
languages, cultures, traditions,
of places where I come from, but also of places that are close and dear to me,
or those where my research has allowed me to go and meet them.
Through the body, Circle is to call the dance.
The round creates proximity, allows intimacy and sharing
It welds bonds and repairs others.
To enter the Circle is to join the Others,
those who are present and those who are no longer present.
It is to commune through the body, through the voice, with the whole and the nothing.
It is to begin and complete something eternally new.
To turn on an axis that is never the same
It is to become aware that life and death are one
It is to take care of the present.

As a work of research, this album contains extracts and pieces of music which I did not create, but which served as analytical material in my research and which I wanted to share to support my point.
I sincerely thank the artists dear to my heart who produced them and strongly encourage you to go listen to them and buy their albums and their books.


sources below:


Music :

Wardruna, Völuspå
Einar Selvik, Völuspå, live at Wintercastle Fest,
Bathory, Foreverdark Woods
Wardruna, Ehwar
Mouch – Avel, Ukiuksaq
Mouch-Avel, Gwerz
Maxida Maräk, Jänrör
Eivør Palsdøttir, Trøllabundin
Eivør Palsdøttir, I Tokùni
Mari Boine, Goaskinviellja
Nils Aslak Valkeapää, Eanan, Eallima, Eadni
Toque de Palo Mayombe, Buena Noche
Vyas Manish & Awwad Dina, La illaha illa allah
Diamanda Galas, les Litanies de Satan
Yvonne McGuiness et Ellen King, The Well, soundtrack
Joannie Madden, Mnà Na H-Eirean
Burzum, Rundgang um die Transzendentale Saule der
Singularität
Felix Grande y Juan Pena « el Librejano », Persecusion
Denez Prigent, Gortoz Aran
Digresk, Kemer e Nij (Pac’h Pi)
Plantec, Rakaj
Northern Cree, Ontario Str8
A tribe called red, Pow Wow Drum
Wardruna, Helvegen




Bibliography :

Mary Wiegman, Hexentanz, video archive,
1'44 min, available on daylimotion
Mary Wiegman, The Language of Dance,
éditions Chiron, 1990
Jeanguy Saintus, Chant aux divinités de l'eau,
dance piece, Haîti, 2006
The Poetic Eda, translated from Icelandic by Henry Adam
Bellows, Scandinavian Classique Volume XXI and
XXII, The American-Scandinavian Foundation,
New York, 1923
Jean Malaurie,
Les Derniers Rois de Thulé, Pocket editions, 1996
Jørn Riel, The Song for the Living Trilogy,
volume 1 Heq, volume 2 Arluk, volume 3 Soré, 1995-1997,
éditions 10/18
Jørn Riel, La vierge froide et autre racontars, 1993,
Éditions 10/18
Jørn Riel, Un safari arctique, 1975, Éditions 10/18
Antoine Aubinet, The songs of the articque, lecture,
Point Culture TV, 2014
Jørn Riel, The Day Before Tomorrow, éditions 10/18
1975
Jørn Riel, The boy who wanted to become a human being,
éditions 10/18, 1979
Catarina Pasqualino, The voice: rituals of the afterlife,
conference at quai Branly, 2015
Cheaf Seattle, Wir sind ein Teil der Erde, Die Rede des
Häuptlings Seattle an den Präsidenten der Vereinigten
Staaten von Amerika im Jahre 1855, published by Patmos
Leslie Stephen, In Praise of Walking,
preface by Virginia Woolf, published by Rivages, 2017
Elsa Wolliaston, Salomé, dance piece, Paris, archives
INA, 1985
Hervé Gauville and Annie Suquet, l'Energie Sorcière,
Interview with Elsa Wolliaston, in Repères,
Cahiers de la Danse, n°30, 02/2012, p.3 to 4.
Gilbert Rouget , Music and Trance among the Arabs,
Alia edition, 2017
Olivier Truc, La montagne rouge, éditions Point, 2016
Willy Amtmann Les chants du Québec,
Editions de l'Homme 1976
Liselotte Wajsted, Sami nieida Jojk, film 58 min, vimeo,
2004
Varg Vikernes,
Sorcery and religion in ancient scandinavia,
Abstract Song Book Ldt, 2011.
Silvia Federici, Caliban and the witch,
éditions Entremonde, 1998
Felix Grande y Juann Pena " El librejano ",
Persecusion, audio book, 1976
Federico Garcia Lorca, Poemas de Cante Jondo,
1931
Nicloas Guillen , Motivos de Sons, 1930
Olivier Truc, The Reindeer Police, documentary, 1h27,
france 5, 2008.
Amanda Kernell, Sameblod, film 1h53, 2016
Jean Balcou, Georges Provost and Yvon Tranvouez, Les
Bretons et la séparation, Presse Universitaire de Rennes,
2006