Maud Blandel
L'oeil nu
novembernov 23 – 30
© Margaux Vendassi & Camille D. Tonnerre ©
© Margaux Vendassi & Camille D. Tonnerre ©
Saturday november 23
21h
Sunday november 24
17h
Tuesday november 26
20h
Wednesday november 27
20h
Thursday november 28
20h
Friday november 29
20h
Saturday november 30
18h
Direction and choreography Maud Blandel. With Oscar M. Damianaki, Karine Dahouindji, Maya Masse, Tilouna Morel, Romane Peytavin, Simon Ramseier. Sound design Flavio Virzì, Denis Rollet, Maud Blandel. Lighting design Daniel Demont, Florian Bach. Sound management Denis Rollet. Outside look Anna-Marija Adomaityte. Costumes Marie Bajenova. Production and booking Claudia Petagna (Parallèle). Administration I L K A – Alexandra Nivon.
Production I L K A
Parallèle Pratiques artistiques émergentes internationales. Production, Festival, Coopération (Marseille)
Coproduction Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain (Lausanne) ; Pavillon ADC, association for contemporary dance (Geneva) ; La Bâtie – Festival de Genève ; Centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie
With the support of the CNDC Angers as part of the studio facilities ; of the Vaud State ; City of Lausanne ; Loterie romande ; Pro Helvetia – Fondation suisse pour la culture ; Fondation Ernst Göhner ; Pour-cent culturel Migros
Maud Blandel is an associate artist of the CNDC Angers and Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy
The company I L K A benefits from a contract of trust with the City of Lausanne-2021-2024
As part of Swiss Dance Week with the Swiss Cultural Centre. On tour
The Théâtre Public de Montreuil - Centre dramatique national and the Festival d'Automne à Paris present this show in co-realisation.
As part of Swiss Dance Week with the Centre Culturel Suisse. On tour
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Writing workshop with Maud Blandel
Monday 25 November, 6.30pm to 9.30pm.
Post-show discussions
On Thursday 28 November, meet other spectators over a drink to exchange views and ideas.
Taking the phenomena of stellar degeneration as her starting point, Maud Blandel explores the confused memory of a tragic autobiographical event. Her work L'oeil nu questions our perception of what falls within us and around us, giving rise to bursts of emotion and, at times, humour.
It is said that a star begins to die when, having exhausted its hydrogen reserves, it is no longer in a state of equilibrium. Then begins a long phase of degeneration which leads, depending on the size of the star, to the collapse of its heart. In this new work, Maud Blandel combines the astrophysical phenomenon of pulsars with the tragic sound memory of the explosion of her father's heart. With a cast of six dancers, L'oeil nu transforms the stage space into a true observation ground. Faced with a degenerating body, be it stellar, physical, or collective, what do we really perceive? Going beyond the task of reconstituting an autobiographical event, the choreographer experiments with changes of scale, eludes all form of tragedy and puts into images the (dys)functioning of memory, ranging from its persistence, loops and holes, areas of darkness and other inventions. Faced with the inconceivable, with what, literally, is beyond comprehension, Maud Blandel sets down her childhood pain in the closing words of a poem by T.S. Eliot: “This is how the world ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper.”