CLASSE LIBRE, COURS FLORENT PARIS, PROMOTION 36, 2017 •
CLASSE LIBRE, COURS FLORENT PARIS, PROMOTION 36, 2017 •
CLASSE LIBRE, COURS FLORENT PARIS, PROMOTION 36, 2017 •
A weaving together of spoken word and song. An explosion of fifteen voices in space.
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), the renowned Portuguese poet, had not just one life or one soul. A detail made all the more curious by the fact that his last name means “nobody” in Portuguese. And he had been so many different people… Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, Bernardo Soares – great poets who knew, admired and influenced each other. And each of them, in reality, were only one man. Or was it the other way around? …
Fifteen students from the 36th Classe Libre adopted this moving and complex poetic material to bring these voices together in a spatialized choral form. Over a period of three weeks, we worked together on listening, rhythm, harmony, counterpoint.
"I overflowed,
I undressed, I gave myself up,
And in every corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god."
- Fernando Pessoa
Credits
Texts by Fernando Pessoa
Music by Edward Elgar, Gabriel Fauré, Tom Jobim, Alexandre Labarthe and a traditional Russian romance.
Concept, staging and musical direction: Marcus Borja
Stage manager: Augustin Bouchacourt
With
Sélène Assaf, Lucie Brunet, Sylvain Debry, Aurélien Grellier-Beker, David Guez, Rafaela Jirkovsky, Alexandre Labarthe, Augustin Lépinay, Leila Muse, Florian Pâque, Hermine dos Santos, Jonathan Turmbull, Alison Valence and Gabriel Washer.
© Photo credit: Aurélien Grellier-Beker