Gisèle Vienne
This is how you will disappear
© Mathilde Darel ©
© Seldon Hunt ©
© Seldon Hunt ©
Concept, directing, choreography and stage design, Gisèle Vienne
Created in collaboration with, and performed by Jonathan Capdevielle, Nuria Guiu Sagarra, and Jonathan Schatz
Music created and performed live by, Stephen O’Malley, and Peter Rehberg
Text and song lyrics, Dennis Cooper
Lighting, Patrick Riou
Fog sculpture, Fujiko Nakaya
Video, Shiro Takatani
Stylism and costume design, José Enrique Oña Selfa Hawker, Patrice Potier / Les Ailes de l’Urga
Doll making, Raphaël Rubbens, Dorothéa Vienne-Pollak, and Gisèle Vienne
Tree making and advice, Hervé Mayon / La Licorne Verte
Tree sculpting and reconstitution, François Cuny / O Bois Fleuri, les ateliers de Grenoble
Make-up, wigs and hairdressing, Rebecca Flores
Visual programmator, Ken Furudate
Costume making, Marino Marchand
Ground making, Michel Arnould, and Christophe Tocanier
In association with Maison des Arts Créteil and Festival d’Automne à Paris.
A production by Alma Office ; and DACM
A coproduction by Festival d’Avignon ; Le Quartz – scène nationale de Brest ; Festival/Tokyo ; Steep Slope Studio (Yokohama) ; Steirischer Herbst Festival (Graz) ; Comédie de Caen – centre dramatique national de Normandie ; Centre dramatique national Orléans Centre-Val de Loire ; Kyoto Experiment with support from Saison Foundation and EU Japan Fest ; BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen) ; Göteborgs Dans- och teaterfestival ; International Summerfestival Kampnagel (Hamburg) ; Nationaltheatret (Oslo) ; Contre Jour, Centre chorégraphique national de Franche-Comté à Belfort, as part of its studio programme ; CCN2 – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, as part of its studio programme ; and résidence-association ArtZoyd, Le phénix, scène nationale de Valenciennes – pôle européen de création
In association with Maison des Arts Créteil ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
With support from Japan Foundation through the Performing Arts JAPAN program, Ville de Grenoble Étant donnés Contemporary Art - FACE Foundation, DICREAM, Culturesfrance et la Ville de Grenoble, as part of the Culturesfrance-Ville de Grenoble scheme, Service Culturel de l’Ambassade de France à Tokyo, SACD as part of its Fonds Musique de Scène scheme, and Conseil général de l’Isère
With thanks to Institut franco-japonais de Tokyo and Villa Kujoyama, and Institut franco-japonais du Kansai-Kyoto
A project coproduced by NXTSTP, with support from Programme Culture de l’Union Européenne
Rehearsal residencies at Le Quartz – scène nationale de Brest, CND Centre national de la danse (Pantin), Centre chorégraphique national de Franche-Comté à Belfort as part of its studio programme, Steep Slope Studio (Yokohama), and CENTQUATRE-PARIS
With support from Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Partnership with France Culture
Premiered at the Festival d’Avignon in 2010, This is how you will disappear takes us increasingly deeper into the heart of a forest the atmosphere of which changes over the course of the play. Three figures appear – a young athlete, his coach and a rock star. An epic tableau which evokes the internalized struggle between our intimacy and society.
The experience – amongt those which leave their mark on the audience – begins with an immense forest of abounding naturalism. It is a landscape in which various metorlogical phenomena unfurl and subsequently overturn the playing space, as well as our perception and sensation of it, resulting in shifts from beauty linked to order towards that linked to chaos. The conflictual articulations of these two oppposites enter into resonance with the three characters: a coach represents authority, and is the guarantor of a form of order which serves the purposes of a domination-based system, and the abuses it engenders; a young female gymnast embodies beauty linked to culturally-constructed perfection; and a young rock star embodies that linked to ruin. This is how you will disappear evokes these cultural ideals and apparently contradictory canons of beauty rooted in our contemporary culture. The piece brings to the stage the internalized struggle between our intimacy and society's will to express itself via these representations.