Friday, June 9th at 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. • Saturday, June 10th, at 3 :00 and 6 :00 p.m. • Cours Florent Jaurès, Isabelle Adjani room •
Friday, June 9th at 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. • Saturday, June 10th, at 3 :00 and 6 :00 p.m. • Cours Florent Jaurès, Isabelle Adjani room •
Friday, June 9th at 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. • Saturday, June 10th, at 3 :00 and 6 :00 p.m. • Cours Florent Jaurès, Isabelle Adjani room •
Silence before life and after death. A silence full of sounds. A silence where all sounds come from and where all sounds will die. Not a void to be filled, but an organism endlessly moving through space and time. A presence made of absence.
Now that Silence… (Maintenant que le silence…) is a polyphonic landscape painted in darkness, a nowadays oratorio, a soundtrack of memories intertwined in time and space, merging songs and speech, music sheets and improvisation. A journey of sounds and senses. Fragments, sparks, tangled universes burst out of this collapsed present time. A geopoetics of voices resounding in bodies and propagating into space, a space that opens and diffuses into other spaces. No scenography. No costumes. No lighting. And an infinity of possibilities.
Accept of invisible part of the world not as a little-reassuring incompleteness, but more as a catalyst paving the way to new modes of relationships and discovery of the other.
The voice stands at the center of our creative process. A rigorous training of this precious faculty we often claim without really knowing what it actually means: listening! Be it the spoken or sang voice, the declamation or improvisation, the crying, the laughter, the sobs, or even the relationship one’s voice involves with the body in movement, everything consists of the poetic turmoil of our darkness crossing…
“A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves of the last rays of daylight
A face that looks like all forgotten faces.”
Paul Éluard
CREDITS
Concept, staging, and musical direction: Marcus Borja
Texts by: The students and Abbé Pierre, Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett, Italo Calvino, Jana Cerná, Salvador Dalí, Dimcho Debelyanov, Gilles Deleuze, Robert Desnos, Marguerite Duras, Vincent Fontano, Federico Garcia Lorca, Euripide, Stephen Hawking, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Dea Loher, Gherasim Luca, Antonio Machado, Maurice Maeterlinck, Heiner Müller, Negue’Fly, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jacques Rebotier, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Sénèque, Kae Tempest.
Musics by Luiz Bonfá, John Dowland, G. F. Haendel, Violeta Parra, Francis Poulenc, Romane de Stabenrath, Gaïa Warnant, and some anonymous writers…
In addition to several intimate and public audiovisual documents…
With the 43rd promotion of the Classe Libre – Cours Florent Paris:
Loïc Azorin, Antoine Cailloux, Eva-Jade Cisternino, Nawelle Evad, Maïlys Fiston, Margaux Germay, Léo Guérin, Auguste Guiter, Octave Lemarchand, Mélissa Polonie, Marilou Poujardieu, Denez Raoul, Romane de Stabenrath, Enzo Tinebra, Gaïa Warnant, Noé Wodecki