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The Voices of the Night

 CONSERVATOIRE LE LILLE / THEATRE DU NORD, DECEMBER 2017 •
 CONSERVATOIRE LE LILLE / THEATRE DU NORD, DECEMBER 2017 •
 CONSERVATOIRE LE LILLE / THEATRE DU NORD, DECEMBER 2017 •

Creation of a performance on the subject of dreams and fantasy stories.

Intensive workshop (35 hours) for students. Creation of a performance on the subject of dreams and fantasy stories.

Throughout the sessions, we explored such stuff as dreams are made on, using texts, music, poetry and improvisations.

Voices of the subconscious, distorted reflections of reality, horror stories and fantasy worlds were the matter from which we worked. Dreams or nightmares, and even more so the space between these and action itself was the Ariadne’s thread of a work. An extremely fertile ground, common to all, which lent itself very well to the polyphonic framework that we wove together.

"A woman is sitting alone in a house. She knows she is alone in the whole world: every other living thing is dead. The doorbell rings." - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Credits

Texts by Fernando Pessoa, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Richard Francis Burton, Ahmed Ech Chiruani, Chuang Tsu, Jean Cocteau, James George Frazer, George Loring, Franz Kafka, Tsao Hsue Kin, Horacio Quiroga and Gustav Weil.

Music by Edward Elgar, Camille Saint-Saëns, Moondog, Marcus Borja, Johnny Mercer et Henry Mancini, traditional Persian songs and multi-instrumental improvisations.

Concept, staging and musical direction: Marcus Borja

With
Léo Andrzejewski, Farid Benchoubane, Simon Decobert, Baptiste Delamare, Lucie Dubus, Lorette Dugardin, Julie Duquenoy, Fanny Gosset, Anne-Sophie Goubet, Mathieu Gourlet, Renaud Hezeques, Pauline Huyghe, Melki Izzouzi, Clara Joly, Juliette Launay, Eponine Lemaire-Cardoen, Sarah Leseur, Charlotte Megimbir, Lucas Mortier, Cindy Philippe, Lara Pitten, Lylian Roulland and Lucas Van Poucke.

© Photo credit: Marcus Borja