Marion Siéfert
_jeanne_dark_
© © Matthieu Bareyre ©
© © Matthieu Bareyre ©
© © Matthieu Bareyre ©
Concept, text and direction by Marion Siéfert
Choreography, Helena de Laurens and Marion Siéfert
With Helena de Laurens
Stage design, Nadia Lauro
Lighting, Manon Lauriol
Costumes, Valentine Solé
Sound, Johannes Van Bebber
Video and technological stage management, Guillaume Mercier
Makeup, Karin Westerlund
Accompaniment of vocal work, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias
General Manager, Chloé Bouju
Stage design, Ateliers Nanterre-Amandiers - Marie Maresca, Ivan Assaël, Jérôme Chrétien
Development and accompaniment by Ziferte
Produced by, Cécile Jeanson, and Bureau Formart
Produced by Ziferte Productions ; and La Commune centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers
Coproduced by Coproduction Centre dramatique national de Tours – Théâtre Olympia ; Théâtre National de Bretagne (Rennes) ; La Rose des vents, scène nationale Lille Métropole Villeneuve d’Asq ; CNDC Angers ; L’empreinte, Scène nationale Brive-Tulle ; CDN Orléans/Loiret/Centre ; Tandem Scène nationale (Arras-Douai) ; Théâtre Nouvelle Génération, CDN de Lyon ; Le Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne ; Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Gand) ; Théâtre Sorano (Toulouse) ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
In association with La Commune centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
With financial support from the POROSUS fund and M.A.C COSMETICS
Reception in residence, T2G - Théâtre de Gennevilliers, La Ménagerie de Verre as part of the Studiolab
Marion Siéfert is an asoociate artist at La Commune centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers and Théâtre Nouvelle Génération – Centre dramatique national de Lyon within the framework of Vivier, an initiative which provides support for the development of new work in theatre and emerging arts.
_jeanne_dark_, is the Instagram pseudo that Jeanne has chosen for herself, a sixteen year old adolescent from a Catholic family who lives in a residential suburb of Orléans. For the last few months, she has been the subject of taunts from her friends on the subject of her virginity. One evening, alone in her bedroom, she decides to break her silence and speaks out on Instagram.
In this piece, Marion Siéfert creates a dual-show: for the theatre and for Instagram. Looking into this mirror which her smartphone offers her, Jeanne breaks free of her silence, talks of herself and regains control over her image. Her words, timid and full of shame at the beginning, soon transform into a fast-paced outpouring in which she places herself centre-stage, recreates situations that she has gone through, and embodies, one by one, the individuals which make up her world. Under the watchful gaze of her followers, Jeanne films, reinvents, experiences and confounds herself. As she guides us along this waltz of characters, masks, and Instagram filters, a very different Jeanne comes into existence before our eyes, a Jeanne who gives free reign to her fantasies, an adolescent who, shut away in her bedroom, shatters her identity into tiny pieces and transforms herself. This virtuoso performance is carried off by Helena de Laurens, with whom Marion Siéfert had already collaborated, in Le Grand Sommeil, presented at the Festival in 2018. Onstage, in a set designed by Nadia Lauro, it is Jeanne who makes the film of this adolescent, projected, live, onto two screens which frame the stage. As the same person who films and is filmed, via the camera on her telephone, she creates this very different, iconic and fantastical body, and brings to life a character full of sound and fury.
In the same place
Carte Blanche Dream City
The multi-disciplinary Tunisian festival Dream City is moving to Aubervilliers at the joint invitation of the Festival d'Automne and La Commune, with the shared desire to make this area rustle, resonate and dream through a dozen creations by international performing and visual artists.
Selma & Sofiane Ouissi BIRD
Starting with ordinary everyday gestures such as feeding, living together and getting around, Sofiane Ouissi explores our relationship with birds. Passionate about encounters and the journeys they generate, this time he delves into the relationship with another species.
Visual arts: exhibitions and conversations
Artists Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle, Manthia Diawara, Michael Rakowitz & Robert Chase Heishmans will be in La Commune from 20 to 28 September to present five works and invite you to take part in two conversations.
The works of Nil Yalter will be on display in the public space of Aubervilliers.
Conference by Sophie Bessis Tunisia in the turmoil of populism
After a decade of chaotic but richly experienced democratic apprenticeship, Tunisia found itself plunged into a new cycle of its post-colonial history from 2021 onwards. From that date onwards, Kaïs Saïed, who was democratically elected in 2019, assumed all the powers, transforming a fledgling democracy into an autocracy.
Sammy Baloji Missa Utica
The first black bishop appointed by the Catholic Church should have settled in Utica, Tunisia, but never did. His story is the starting point for Sammy Baloji's work.
Winter Family H2-Hébron
Winter Family is an experimental music and documentary theatre duo founded by Israeli artist Ruth Rosenthal and French musician Xavier Klaine. They play minimal, obsessive, abrasive and political music. They created H2 Hebron, their 3rd show in 2018, a documentary piece in which the transcription of nearly 500 pages of testimonies, their translation, selection and reappropriation by Winter Family are the central element and the main dramaturgical material of the show.
Lina Majdalanie, Rabih Mroué Biokhraphia
These two one-person shows, Biokhraphia et Riding on a cloud, are an investigation into the self-portrait. In Riding on a Cloud, a man called Yasser speaks into a dictaphone, projects videos and broadcasts recordings, whilst expressing reservations about the extent to which these documents coincide with his true self. In Biokhraphia, it is Lina Majdalanie who becomes the subject of a very unusual interview.
Rabih Mroué Riding on a cloud
These two one-person shows, Biokhraphia and Riding on a cloud, are an investigation into the self-portrait. In Riding on a Cloud, a man called Yasser speaks into a dictaphone, projects videos and broadcasts recordings, whilst expressing reservations about the extent to which these documents coincide with his true self. In Biokhraphia, it is Lina Majdalanie who becomes the subject of a very unusual interview.