Fanny De Chaillé
Le Chœur
octoberoct 17 – 18
Conception, Fanny de Chaillé
Inspired by the poem Et la rue, extrait de l’ouvrage divers chaos de Pierre Alferi (P.O.L.)
With the 2020 « Talents Adami Théâtre » graduates: Marius Barthaux, Marie-Fleur Behlow, Rémy Bret, Adrien Ciambarella, Maudie Cosset-Chéneau, Malo Martin, Polina Panassenko, Tom Verschueren, Margot Viala, Valentine Vittoz
Assistant, Christophe Ives
Rehearsal diary, Grégoire Monsaingeon
Sound and radio, Manuel Coursin
Technical manager and light, Willy Cessa
Production manager, Isabelle Ellul
Communication and logistics, Jeanne Dantin
Produced by Association Display; Adami; Festival d’Automne à Paris; Project created as part of the operation Talents Adami Théâtre
Coproduced by 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 / CDCN
With the help from Cité internationale des Arts de Paris and the DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes as part of France Relance
Le Festival d’Automne à Paris is co-producer of this performance.
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.
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