Residents and Creations 11/12

FOCUS ON A FEW PROJECTS BY RESIDENT ARTISTS

David Bobee / Groupe Rictus
In residence in July 2012
Dans le théâtre by David Bobee, Romeo and Juliette leave the 15th century and live out their passion today. to tell the famous Shakespearean tale with a very sharp political angle, the director touches on the play’s homicidal struggles with theatrics bordering on choreography.
David Bobee works from Pascal Collin’s new translation of Roméo et Juliette, adapted for today’s style of oral delivery. The prose is erotic and tackles the violence of today’s social context, between questions of religion, intolerance, and hate. As for his memorable Hamlet, Bobee continues to base his creation on a particular material. for Roméo et Juliette, he chose copper: sets in copper, dramaturgy of light, coppery bodies for a play in which the issue of sensuality is central. There will be fourteen actors, dancers and acrobats on stage. This creation, produced in the context of a residency at Les Subsistances constitutes the first phase in a long-term collaboration between La Biennale de la danse and Les Subsistances. Playing in September 2012.
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Antoine Defoort & Halory Goerger
In residence in May 2012.
Merry and joyously raw, Antoine Defoort and Halory Goerger create their new show at les Subsistances. Germinal directs people who see the stage as a blank slate and fertile ground where everything needs to be done. Here, they’ll try to give birth to a system or, more candidly, a world.
This creation produced in the context of a residency at Les Subsistances constitutes the first phase in a long-term collaboration between La Biennale de la danse and Les Subsistances. Playing in September 2012. ___________________________________________
Collectif Petit Travers
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Compagnie Image Aiguë. 
In residence in 2011.
The Compagnie Image Aiguë works on small theatrical stories that deal in a humorous way with the themes of power and hunger surrounding universal, burning questions. The actors in these works-in-progress are children, teens and adults from France, Italy and Turkey, directed by Christiane Véricel.
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Nora Chipaumire
 residence in 2012. Creation in Spring 2013.
Artist-choreographer Nora Chipaumire’s dance invents a synthesis between her American contemporary training
and her African roots. Born in Zimbabwe, she
won prizes in New York in 2007 and 2008 and is developing a new project around Miriam 
Makeba, a major figure of African resistance. http://www.norachipaumire.com/
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Les Endimanchés / Alexis Forestier
In residence in 2011. Creation in October 2012.
Director Alexis Forestier appropriates “Him”, by the American poet-author E.E. Cummings: from the quasi-obsessive musical writing of Cummings to the musical theatre musical of the Endimanchés, there’s just one small step.
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Adrien M / Claire B
In residence in November 2011. Exhibition and creation in June 2012.
Multi-disciplinary artist, computer programmer and juggler, Adrien Mondot explores and questions movement in all its forms, in a concrete way with the body and juggling balls, as well as virtually. At the crossroads of the real and the imaginary, he creates his work, which combines performing and digital arts, using a tailor-made computer tool called eMotion. Mondot and Claire Bardainne—designer, graphic artist
and set designer—are developing several projects together at Les Subsistances.
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La Langue Ecarlate (The Scarlet Tongue)/ Hélène Mathon 
In residence in October 2011, performance in 2012.
Director Hélène Mathon is creating the performance “One Hundred Years in the Fields” as a theatrical documentary with interviews, portraits, snatches of lives, etc. She tells the story of agriculture from 1945 until. . . 2045, using every available theatrical tool. She wants to make people aware of this history, which has not only changed the lives of farmers, but altered the nature of what’s on our plates.
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Théâtre du Shaman / Bruno Meyssat
In residence in 2011. Creation in Autumn 2012.
The Théâtre du Shaman is working on 15%, the second part of a two-part creation about contemporary society, with the goal of showing, onstage, the financial sphere that forms the basis of our way of life—and our way of crisis. Bruno Meyssat appropriates texts from the economist Frédéric Lordon, the German philosophers Georg Simmel and Günther Anders, the trader Jérôme Kerviel, Isabelle Pivert on companies that are laying off, the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, etc.
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Irakli Company / Pierre Baux & Violaine Schwartz
In residence and creation in June 2012.
Pierre Baux is working on adapting La tête en arrière, Violaine Schwartz’s funny, neurotic first novel.
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Cynthia Hopkins
In residence in 2011. Creation in November 2012.
Cynthia Hopkins mixes genres and registers, calling on theatre, video, dance, music, great literature and accounts of daily life. In her new project, this country singer and performer will address the global climate crisis.
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Alison Kobayashi
In residence and creation in 2012.
Canadian visual artist and performer Alison Kobayashi works with video and drawing. In the context of the commission from Les Subsistances for the Peur Collective, she is developing a short piece based on Père Fouettard / Croque-mitaine.
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Sandra Iché 
In residence in 2011
Dancer and historian Sandra Iché is developing the performance project “Wagons libres” about Beirut and the Lebanese Francophone magazine Orient Express, which editor Samir Kassir founded in the 1990s. In a performance combining written notes, sound files and videos, Sandra Iché tackles the question of how we recount history (Comment dire l’Histoire?).
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