Armand Amar

Armand Amar is a Compositeur born in 1953 with Jerusalem, Israel and lives with Paris. It passes its childhood to the Morocco, and is thus found very early confronted with several cultures, between North Africa, the East and Europe.

To the turning of May 68, in the mysteries of the Latin Quarter, it throws its reserved on percussif art, in fact that of the Congas. An investment with lost body which, by the skew of West-Indian musicians or strikers latinos, leads it to be interested in this Graal sound that symbolizes for him the small pocket of an album of the group Oregon opening on a forest of instruments. This " ailleurs" promised by ethnic musics, it leaves to its meeting, extremely of sesames of instruments judged then " exotiques". Years remembered will follow to the seal of a total engagement which lead it to practice counted them, to discover the zarb, to bind friendship with many figures latinas like Patato Valdes.

In 1976 the discovery of the dance follows, with the invitation of the South-African choreographer Peter Goss, formidable pedagog, anthropologist of formation. Suddenly, which it research is there: a direct report/ratio with the music, capacity to improvise without constraints, virtues of in situ exchange. He works then, with a considerable number choreographers belonging to all the currents of the contemporary dance. Two parallel adventures enrich its pallet: its implication in the school of actors of Patrice Chéreau and teaching with the Conservatory Higher National on the reports/ratios music and dance. A syncretism of spiritual and musical influences which is found in its film musics.

Its works are centered particularly on the Eastern music. He is the author of several ballets and of original soundtracks of films such as Lève you and goes , the Track , Indigènes , Amen. , Go, screw and become and the first cry . Armand Amar collaborated by twice with the Greek realizer of origin Costa-Gavras gate cinema|gate music}} {{DEFAULTSORT: Amar, Armand}} [[Category: Birth in 1953]] [[Category: Israeli type-setter