Soulèvement
Tatiana Julien / Compagnie Interscribo (France)
German premiere | Caution: Stroboscopic effects are used on stage!
Tatiana Julien belongs to the current generation that gives French dance a new face, reflects it pointedly and questions social contexts in a philosophically critical way. Her solo piece SOULÈVEMENT (Uprising) is dedicated to the history and present of revolt, uprising and resistance, of departure and visions since 1968. What remained of the utopias? What discourses, ideas, freedoms? How to dance since then? What is dreamed about, and with whom?
Julien grew up listening to the music of pop star Mylène Farmer. She lets herself be cheered by thousands while she sings her super hit GÉNÉRATION DÉSENCHANTÉE, the anthem of a “disillusioned generation”: “Everything is chaos. My ideals – worn-out words”. To the live recording, Julien sets the scene: powerful, combative, quick-witted. A power woman, and yet alone. Other sound recordings, including those of Martin Luther King, document the spirit of optimism from the time of the civil rights and student movements in Europe and the USA.
Today, activists like the Occupy movement are fighting, but they are encountering an increasingly fragmented society in which new dance styles are emerging on the Internet. Carried by solitary Sturm und Drang, conflicted between individualism and a desire for collective action, Julien puts all her daring into choreographies she borrows from the online game Fortnite, hip hop and krump. And the audience? Riddles with. Are we still a community today when we dance together or watch a play at the theater?
Credits
Concept + choreography Tatiana Julien Performance Tatiana Julien Choreographic assistance Clémence Galliard, Sylvain Riejou Music + sound design Gaspard Guilbert Light Kevin Briard Tourmanagement + engineering Kevin Briard, Baptiste Joxe, Agathe Patonnier Costume Tatiana Julien, Catherine Garnier Documentation Catherine Jivora
Production Interscribo – Fanny Hauguel, Lola Blanc Coproduction Espace des Arts, Scène nationale Chalon-sur-Saône/ Art Danse CDCN Dijon Bour-gogne-Franche-Comté/ Les Hivernales CDCN d’Avignon/ La Commanderie – Mission Danse de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/ Maison de la Culture d’Amiens – Pôle européen de création et de production/ L’échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France, Tanzfabrik Berlin, apap – FEMINIST FUTURES Supports Creative Europe Programme of the European Union / Maison de la Culture d’Amiens – Pôle européen de création et de production. Tatiana Julien is an associate artist to Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, pôle européen de création et de production, to Espace des Arts, scène nationale Chalon-sur-Saône and is accompagnied by le phénix – scène nationale de Valenciennes in their Campus program. She is also a companion artist to Théâtre du Beauvaisis, scène nationale, Direction Régionale des Affaires Cultu-relles of Hauts-de-France / Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Hauts-de-France Region, Amiens Métropole. With the kind support of the Institut français and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication / DGCA.
Main Supporters
euro-scene leipzig is institutionally supported by the City of Leipzig and the Saxon State Ministry for Higher Education, Culture and Tourism. Co-financed by tax revenue on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.