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Jitti
Chompee Photographed by Tanon Sattarujawong Emmanuel Gout Rick Burger 11 June 2004 Cocktails |
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Chompee Born 1974 in Bangkok, Thailand, Jitti was first introduced to dance during his university years where he completed a degree in Chemical Engineering at Chulalongkorn University in 1994. He has been trained in classical ballet by David Shields and William Morgan at Varaporn-Kanchana Ballet School for 6 years. In 1998, he was awarded a scholarship from the Jena M. Wong School of ballet in Hong Kong after which he went to Paris where he studied Modern Jazz as taught by Prof. Mikael Wattincourt. From 2000 to 2001 he attended the Alvin Ailey School in New York as a full time scholarship student. During that period on a work-study scholarship, he learnt various styles of dance from the likes of Milton Myers, Lonne Moretton and Fred Benjamin at The Steps on Broadway. He was immersed in a broad curriculum of dance techniques and has become equally proficient in modern dance (Horton), ballet and jazz. Jitti is a modern dancer and has continuously worked with prestigious artistic directors and choreographers such as Ismael Ivo, Marcia Haydee, Rafiga Akhundova, Maksad Mamedov, William Morgan and David Shields. He has also worked for Bangkok Ballet Theatre (Varaporn-Kanchana Ballet School), Company of Performing Artists, MTV New York, Les Ballet Persnas in Stockholm and Sony Music Company. In addition he created the duo "Like Him Protect Him" for AIDS HELP 2000 and has choreographed "Sounds of Asians, based on Horton. Tanon Sattarujawong Tanon Sattarujawong, a native of Thailand, is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He was the first student in Thailand to receive a prestigious scholarship from Anandamahidol Foundation, the highest regarded academic scholarship under the Royal Patronage of His Majesty the King of Thailand, to study filmmaking. Before coming to Graduate Film NYU, his films "This's Connected?" and "Alternate Route" won best short film and best documentary film at Thailand's National Film Award 2000. His short documentary "A Short Journey" won FIPRESCI Special Mention at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2003 and was official selections at Sundance 2004, Canadian International Documentary Film Festival, Hot Docs 2004 and Vision du Reel, Nyon, Switzerland 2004. "Enlightenment" won 1st Prize and Best Directing at NYU First Run Film Festival 2004 and is now traveling to major film festivals around the world. Tanon is a also a recipient of scholarship from World Studio Foundation for two years and a recipient of Thesis film award from Fuji Film 2003. At the moment, Tanon is developing his first feature titled "Common Ground". Emmanuel Gout Born in 1968 near Paris, Emmanuel began photographing at age 13. He was hooked from the outset and has since kept both of his passions, painting and photography, equally alive. In 1988, following a TV presentation on Vaslav Nijinsky, Emmanuel delved into the Russian dancer’s life. This research was bibliographic as well as iconographic, Nijinski being flattered by a rich collection of photographic and sculptural work. The quality of the material left behind by the numerous artists who had an interest in Nijinsky is a veritable treasure. The pinnacle of Emmanuel’s fascination was in 1995 when he met with Nijinsky’s daughter Tamara at the Paris Opera House. Emmanuel studied dental surgery which enabled him to master fundamental anatomical knowledge of human faces and expressions During his mandatory service in the French Armed Forces, he was asked to photograph the maneuvers of the paratrooper regiment with which he served. Back to the City of Lights, he resumed studying drawing and painting at the Paris Fine Arts Academy. Meanwhile, he also took on Art History studies, focusing on the Renaissance period and learned photographic processing techniques. His meeting with young artists influenced in many ways his photographic art. His black and white photographs evolved into intimate portraits of painters, actors, writers, sculptors, fashion designers and models in their work or life environment. Some of these were published by magazines such as Profession or Vogue Homme. Meanwhile, he continued painting with the support of friends who often modelled for him. Photography helped him to more thoroughly structure his paintings, while painting added to his perception and use of colour in photography, both arts complementing and motivating one another. The outcome of Emmanuel’s meeting with Jitti Chompee in Thailand was a series of photographs on dance, bodies and sometimes the city of Paris. During these photo shoots, Jitty’s art of movement – "the basis of life," as Leonardo da Vinci once said - added to Emmanuel’s art of the instant. The photographic work presented in this exposition is the fruit of both artist’s expertise and mutual rigour. |
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