Conservatoire de Lille, Professional Cycle, April-May 2020 •
Conservatoire de Lille, Professional Cycle, April-May 2020 •
Conservatoire de Lille, Professional Cycle, April-May 2020 •
Texts by Italo Calvino,
Alejandro Jodorovski
and Fernando Pessoa.
Our raw material was Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, a poetic expedition to the borders of cities too wondrous to describe. These distant lands with their impossible colors, scents, and architectures, assembled and disassembled in turn, enlightened us on our pathway.
An Ariadne’s thread that is at once literary, dramatic, choreographic and musical. Living sketches of dreamed journeys…
The aim is to deterritorialize and combine the various practices, talents and expertise of all the artists participating in this project: three dancers, three singers, four actors and five instrumentalists (piano, oboe, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, percussion).
"The world is perhaps nothing more than a zodiac of the mind's phantasmagoria."
- Italo Calvino
Credits
Textes by Italo Calvino, Alejandro Jodorovski and Fernando Pessoa.
Music by Kurt Weil, Robert Schumann, Henri Duparc, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Claudio Monteverdi, Carlo Gesualdo, Michelangelo Rossi, Peter Klatzow and Edward Elgar.
Concept, production and musical direction: Marcus Borja
Assistant director: Melki Izzouzi
Light creation and technical coordination: Thomas Seguin
With
Salomé Ansel, Amélie Déchelette, Mila Delangue. Shirley Descamps, Laure Fournier, Camille Guéna, Cassandre Guerdat, Yacov Hanouna, Pauline Huyghe, Melki Izzouzi, Mathias Lonchay, Lorenzo Manquillet, Pierre-Francis Mionnet, Thomas Staes, Pauline Ternisien and Lorenzo Manquillet.
© Photo credit: Lucas Ennebeck