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Jade Duviquet & Cyril Casmèze // Cie du Singe Debout / France« C.Q.P.V.D
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First production / Circus - Theatre
Man is a strange animal. He is supposedly the only one to have both speech and self-awareness. Cyril Casmèze, a zoomorphic artist, and Jade Duviquet, an actor and director, have been working together for a long time on the way animals move. C.Q.P.V.D... tells us about these areas that make the homo sapiens a man: from hypochondria to self-portrait... From too much body to too much speech, between acrobatics and irony, they draw the - sometimes tenuous - boundaries between animal and human, and the strange feeling of being different which sometimes throws him into solitude...
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“Three men, three solitudes, three self-portraits, three forms of language. Three zones, three corridors, three approaches of the body, words and noise. Three ways to be. The hypochondriac athlete: a first man, burdened and haunted by his body - how can he get rid of this matter which invades the mind? What can he do but listen to and talk about this body, of this worrying mortal coil, experience it in speech, in the language of hypochondria, which, from one phobia to the next, will explore the body; the same body which, mastered, exults, as the body of an animal-athlete. The body here comes before the speech, it is the subject. The mental performer: a second man, an observer of himself, all about distance and control, chooses words to make a careful statement in which he will talk about himself without any complacency, about “what makes him, what defines him in other people’s eyes and his own”. In this “self-portrait” play by Edouard Levé, the body is objectified, the language is here before the body, uncompromisingly, in the mastery of the language, simple and flowing. The man machine: a third man refuses all language, he makes sounds, he is the sound-mirror of the two others, and exchanges through the “organic” sound of his machine. Each man is subject to the other men’s scrutiny, watched in his solitude, both a voyeur and an actor. These three men seem separate and somehow share the languages of solitude. They will dupe themselves and their own limitations, and create a relationship through excesses and shortcomings.” Jade Duviquet
Biography
Cyril Casmèze is an actor and zoomorphic acrobat who has worked for Cirque Archaos, Cirque Plume and on stage for G. de Kermabon, C. Bokosva, P. Kerman, M. Guigon, Shirley et Dino, etc). People at Cirque Plume say that he doesn’t “do” animals, he “is one”. Jade Duviquet is an actor. She has worked, among others, for A. Bourseiller, J. Savary, MM. Georges, M.C. Moralnd, L.Serrano, G. de Kermabon, J.P. Wenzel, etc. on classic and contemporary works. She has also worked in partnership with photographers such as F. Chevalier, J.C. Bélégou, video makers and film makers including C. François, with whom she wrote and shot Le Chemin de Jade. Jade and Cyril met, mixed their experiences and decided to examine the relationship humanity / animality (she wrote and directed duets called clichés d’amour, two short films called Bêtes, belle et beau). They founded the Compagnie du Singe Debout in 2002. Their first production, Animalité, was created at the Scène nationale de la Ferme du Buisson in 2003. Later, they performed Unplusun at Vidy Lausanne in 2004. Lately, Cyril Casmeze has appeared in the Kafka adaptation directed by Jade Duviquet, Un grand singe à l'Académie.Yves-Noël Genod is an actor who performed for Claude Régy, François Tanguy and Julie Brochen. He is also a theatre director. Jean-Marc Istria is a sound engineer who has created several soundtracks for plays directed by Didym, Savary, etc.
Cast and crew & thanks
Created and Directed by Jade Duviquet. With Cyril Casmèze, Yves-Noël Genod, Jean-Marc Istria. Texts: Autoportrait by Edouard Levé (Publ. POL), En-corps parlé? by Cyril Cazmèze and Jade Duviquet. Live Sound: Jean-Marc Istria.Production: Compagnie du Singe Debout. Coproduction and residence: Les Subsistances / Lyon / France. With the help of CDN Amandiers de Nanterre.