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Gilles Pastor / KastôrAgile / FR
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First production / Theatre -Video
“La Léa” leaves in a mountain chalet where she sells her cheeses. “La Léa” is deaf. Her handicap and the way she lives with it create a disturbance of language around her. Around “La Léa” emerges a peculiar language which she is not able to hear.
“My language at the theatre is like a “collection of oddities”, which works by collecting strange figures. It is not a logical inventory of monsters but my own pantheon. Often, the starting point for these oddities was in the difference of a language. For La LÉA, my latest “acquisition”, everything turns around the way her language is structured, in the blurry and silent area created by her deafness. Her ears no longer allow her to open up to the outside world. La Léa, once she has become deaf, lived in isolation. Far from the outside world, in “her mountain” for six months until the first snow, the racket of cowbells didn’t follow or bother her any more. When visitors come to her chalet, and this seldom happens, it is to visit her and buy cheese from her: big cow’s milk, 100 % animal fat, outside-European-standards cheeses. A strange business is played out in this purchase of a few cheeses. Everything is carried out without words, outside of La Léa. I was shown into her kitchen by the women in my family. A whole new language comes into action in this room. The necessary structure of language becomes obscure. La Léa injects and elaborates an involuntary contamination in the language. I shoot her with my camera. This is when a simple transaction happens: I am at the cheese monger’s place and I want to buy two cheeses from her. But this transaction proves almost impossible, not because of La Léa’s handicap, but because of my family’s attempts to ‘solve’ it.” Gilles Pastor
See synopsis (pdf / 44 KB) !In french!
Biography
Gilles Pastor is a writer, actor and director. He founded KastôrAgile, a theatre company in Lyon, in 2002. He was awarded the Villa Médicis Hors les Murs grant in 2007, with the program CULTURESFRANCE - Hors Les Murs (Foreign Ministry). He lived in Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) from March to June 2007, when he continued his research on the body’s disturbances: trance and possession through Candomblé, a mix between traditional African religion and Brazil’s Catholicism. He developed a personal and intimate form of theatre by introducing autobiographic elements (a home village, family videos, sexuality, disease, etc.). He directed La Cocadrille - Théâtre d’Altitudes, FrigoS, performed at Les Subsistances in 2004, Fermez vos yeux, Monsieur Pastor for the 2004 Intranquilles Festival, Lily coq à boches during the creative WeekEnd Ça Chauffe! (January 2005 at Les Subsistances), Requiem pour DJ - Derek Jarman, produced at Les Subsistances in 2005. His next first production “Tempête à 54° Nord” will take place in Les Intranquilles Festival 2008.
Cast and crew & thanks
Video + Performed and Directed by Gilles Pastor. Artistic contributors: Pierre David, Catherine Bouchetal. Contributor and video editor: Vincent Boujon. Administration / production:
Marjorie Glas. Set manager: Emmanuel Sauldubois.
Production: KastôrAgile. Co-production & Residence: Les Subsistances / Lyon / France
KastôrAgile have been in residence in Lyon at Les Subsistances, ac creative research laboratory since 2004 (office, work premises and production tool).
KastôrAgile is funded by Ville de Lyon, DRAC Rhône-Alpes and Région Rhône-Alpes.
Marjorie Glas. Set manager: Emmanuel Sauldubois.
Production: KastôrAgile. Co-production & Residence: Les Subsistances / Lyon / France
KastôrAgile have been in residence in Lyon at Les Subsistances, ac creative research laboratory since 2004 (office, work premises and production tool).
KastôrAgile is funded by Ville de Lyon, DRAC Rhône-Alpes and Région Rhône-Alpes.
Dates
Thursday 3, Friday 4, Saturday 5, Sunday 6 april 08 Duration
Around 20 min