Fanny de Chaillé

Le Chœur

Archive 2022

Theatre

Lycée Montesquieu
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Conception, Fanny de Chaillé
Inspired by the poem Et la rue de Pierre Alferi, taken from the collection divers chaos (P.O.L.)
With the 2020 « Talents Adami Théâtre » graduates: Marius Barthaux, Marie-Fleur Behlow, Rémy Bret, Adrien Ciambarella, Maud Cosset-Chéneau, Malo Martin, Polina Panassenko, Tom Verschueren, Margot Viala, and Valentine Vittoz
Assistant, Christophe Ives
Rehearsal diary, Grégoire Monsaingeon
Sound and radio, Manuel Coursin
Lighting, Willy Cessa

Production Association Display ; Adami ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
Project created as part of the operation Talents Adami Théâtre
Coproduction and residency CND Centre National de la Danse with the support from Fonds de dotation Porosus, Malraux scène nationale Chambéry Savoie
In collaboration with l’Atelier de Paris / Centre de développement chorégraphique national
With the help from Cité Internationale des Arts and the DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes as part of France Relance
Display is subsidised by the Ministère de la Culture, DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes and labelled « compagnie Auvergne Rhône-Alpes » by the Région.
Fanny de Chaillé is associated artist to Malraux scène nationale Chambéry Savoie, Théâtre Public de Montreuil – CDN and Chaillot, Théâtre national de la Danse

With the support of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès

Fanny de Chaillé returns in the high schools with her show Le Choeur, first performed during the Festival’s 2020 edition as part of the Talent Adami Théâtre initiative. Ten young actors and actresses constitute a body of ten voices. Onstage, different stories intertwine, converse and converge in a single momentum.

The format of the chorus, both actor and spectator, enunciator and silent audience, enables Fanny de Chaillé to dig deeper into her research on the spoken word and its reception. How can we involve the body in the telling of a story? In the company of ten young actors and actresses, the female director draws up a choreography, both corporal and sound-based: whispers, collective narration and personal accounts unfurl on stage in a common outbreath. From out of this staging emerges a fresh new way of making theatre, which is both joyful and free. The text by the poet Pierre Alferi, taken from his collection diverse chaos, blends with texts by each of the performers, invented during the rehearsals. Underlying these slices of life is a question: how does History meet with our own history? How do the intimate and the collective event cross each other’s paths? The show multiplies the different accounts, opening up an infinite variety of possibilities: it speaks to us of the fabric of a contemporary chorus, unveiling its pulsations and energy.