Émilie Rousset
An encounter with Pierre Pica
© Rencontre avec Pierre Pica © Philippe Lebruman ©
© Rencontre avec Pierre Pica © Philippe Lebruman ©
© Rencontre avec Pierre Pica © Philippe Lebruman ©
© Rencontre avec Pierre Pica © Philippe Lebruman ©
Conceived and directed by Émilie Rousset
With Emmanuelle Lafon and Manuel Vallade
Music, Christian Zanési
Artistic collaboration, Élise Simonet
Lights, Florian Leduc
Sound, Romain Vuillet
Scenography design, an original idea from Célia Gondol, adaptations from Temporary Overlap and Expansion not explosion
Scenography, Florian Leduc & Emilie Rousset
Stage management, Jérémie Sanames
Administration, production, BureauProduire
A John Corporation production
With support from Fondation d’entreprise Hermès as part of its New Settings programme
A coproduction with Le Phénix, Scène Nationale (Valenciennes) ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
In association with Théâtre de la Bastille ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
First performed on 15 October 2018 at Théâtre de la Cité internationale (Paris) with the Festival d’Automne à Paris
Using archive material and documentary inquiry as her starting point, Émilie Rousset’s performative research projects explore the theatrical potential present in the gap between original document and its representation.
Émilie Rousset has turned work done on documentary sources, and in particular on spoken words which have been gathered up and recorded, into the subject matter for a form of theatrical research which explores all the different possibilities of their onstage transposition. For the last three years, she has been involved in a dialogue with the linguist Pierre Pica, one of Noam Chomsky’s former pupils and collaborators. Fifteen years have now passed since Pierre Pica began researching the Munduruku, an indigenous group living in the Amazonian rainforest. He has been studying their language and, more specifically, their relationship with numbers, in that their system of counting is an approximative one, a characteristic that is a source of fascination for the researcher. From her conversations with him, Émilie Rousset has extracted the material for a performance by actors Emmanuelle Lafon and Manuel Vallade. The duo perform these exchanges which are hilarious, erudite and unsettling all at the same time. Linguistics-related questions echo those relating to the spoken word in theatre. The process of scientific research blends in with that of the writing of the piece. The approximative world of the Munduruku takes over the stage.
See also
Émilie Rousset, Maya Boquet Reconstitution : Le procès de Bobigny
In a highly original manner, Émilie Rousset and Maya Boquet bring to the stage testimonies and archives arising from a crucial event in the advancement of women's rights. Navigating a path between the fifteen performers, each spectator builds his or her own mental journey in relation to the subject and its ramifications in today's world, but also in terms of the very process of representation itself.
Émilie Rousset, Louise Hémon Rituel 5 : La Mort
Now it is the turn of Émilie Rousset and Louise Hémon to work with eight young performers as part of the Talents Adami Théâtre scheme, hosted for the tenth year running at the Atelier de Paris. With their habitual brand of humour, they dissect beliefs and representations linked to death, rituals and funeral-related practices.
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The piece takes us a road-trip in the form of a double portrait involving two destinies, namely those of Gurshad Shaheman born in Iran, and Dany Boudreault in Quebec. Authors, directors and performers, the two artists got to know each other in Europe. Here, each of them sets off in search of their respective pasts.
Marion Duval Cécile
Certain encounters are life-changing. This piece is about Marion Duval's encounter with Cécile Laporte, an activist and author to whom she has decided to dedicate a show. The resulting 'truth-performance' is an inspiring one and enables us to embrace the unbearable complexity of the world in a light-hearted way.
Jaha Koo Haribo Kimchi
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