Crowd
Gisèle Vienne (Strasbourg / Paris)
Without spoken language | From 12 years | Cooperation with Sophiensæle, Berlin
Gisèle Vienne, Austrian-French expert for emotional abysses and ecstatic states, places the audience in a trance for the festival closing with her largest dance piece to date: CROWD. Here 15 youths are celebrating in the turmoil of an emotional rave party. Based on film techniques, their movements are expertly slowed down to slow motion, stylized, broken up, reversed or repeated the way animated GIFs are. Hypnotized by a light that constantly remodels the bodies, our attention is directed towards each individual member of this fleeting micro-society. In the rush of the rhythm of music and bodies, subtle moments of love and intimacy are mixed in - but also aversion and violence. Fates clash, whereby one person hugs another, rejects or supports them. The audience is thus drawn into an almost hallucinogenic experience. Emotions are literally running high and telling stories that the author Dennis Cooper wrote as a subtext under Gisèle Vienne’s powerful language of images and bodies. The playlist with rave-culture classics is provided by Peter Rehberg, the pioneer of free experimental computer music who died unexpectedly in 2021. CROWD is a contemporary and simultaneously cathartic and archaic dialogue with our inner selves. An overwhelming theater experience!
Credits
Concept + Choreography + Stage + Dramaturgy Gisèle Vienne Assitance Anja Röttgerkamp, Núria Guiu Sagarra Lighting design Patrick Riou Texts for the development of the characters Performer:innen in Zusammenarbeit mit Dennis Cooper und Gisèle Vienne Music Underground Resistance, KTL, Vapour Space, DJ Rolando, Drexciya, The Martian, Choice, Jeff Mills, Peter Rehberg, Manuel Göttsching, Sun Electric, Global Communication Edits + Selection Playlist Peter Rehberg Sound diffusion supervisor Stephen O’Malley Sound technique Adrien Michel Performance Philip Berlin, Oskar Landström, Jonathan Schatz, Theodore Livesey, Maya Masse, Maeva Lassere, Sylvain Decloitre, Morgane Bonis, Vincent Dupuy, Rehin Hollant, Katia Petrowick, Sophie Demeyer, Louise Perming, Malick Cissé, Audrey Merilus Costumes Gisèle Vienne in Zusammenarbeit mit Camille Queval und den Performer:innen Production + Touring Alma Office, Anne-Lise Gobin, Camille Queval Administration Clémentine Papandrea, Cloé Haas, Paola Gilles Technique Samuel Dosière Stage manager Antoine Hordé Lighting Iannis Japiot
Production DACM / Compagnie Gisèle Vienne Co-production Nanterre-Amandiers CDN, Le Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne, Wiener Festwochen, Le Manège – Scène nationale de Reims, Théâtre National de Bretagne – Centre Européen Théâtral et Chorégraphique, CDN Orléans / Loiret / Centre, La Filature – Scène nationale de Mulhouse, BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen Support CCN2 – Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble, CND Centre national de la danse. The Compagnie Gisèle Vienne is supported by the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication – DRAC Grand Est, the Grand Est Region and the City of Strasbourg. For international tours, the Compagnie is supported by the Institut français.Gisèle Vienne is Associated Artist at Chaillot – Théâtre national de la danse, MC2 Grenoble, Volcan – Scène nationale du Havre and Théâtre National de Bretagne – Centre Européen Théâtral et Chorégraphique. Thanks to Louise Bentkowski, Dominique Brun, Zac Farley, Uta Gebert, Etienne Hunsinger, Margret Sara Guðjónsdóttir, Isabelle Piechaczyk, Richard Pierre, Arco Renz, Jean-Paul Vienne, Dorothéa Vienne-Pollak, Erik Houllier, Giovanna Rua, Lina Hinsky, Andrea Kerr, Mareike Trillhaas
Guest performance support with the kind support of Institut français and of the French Ministry of Culture
Creation Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne, 8 November 2017
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.