Aurélien Dumont
composer

Born in 1980, Aurélien Dumont shares his life between Paris and Tokyo. He has a doctorate in composition from the SACRe program of the ENS-Paris and the CNSMDP (Gérard Pesson's class). He also studies computer music at Ircam. The work with other artists, the opening to Japanese culture and to the music of the past, the crystallization of social problems and the elaboration of electronics close to sound design lay the aesthetic foundations of a music that emerges by setting in tension. Aurélien Dumont has won several international competitions and prestigious prizes (P. Cardin Prize - Académie des Beaux Arts, Hervé Dugardin and Georges Enesco Prize - SACEM, San Fedele Prize of Milan, Takefu International Music Festival, Salabert Prize). From chamber music to opera, his music is played throughout the world by renowned performers; his disc While received the "coup de coeur" from the Académie Charles Cros. In residence at the Théâtre de Cornouaille - scène nationale de Quimper from 2015 to 2017, he is a resident at the Villa Médicis from 2017 and in residence with the ensemble 2e2m in 2018.

Frédéric Sonntag
author, director

Author and director, Frédéric Sonntag created the company AsaNIsiMAsa when he graduated from the CNSAD. He has written and directed a dozen plays. He is currently working on the creation of the Ghost Trilogy (George Kaplan, Benjamin Walter and B. Traven), a cycle which, through three ghostly characters, investigates the notion of identity and the political stakes of narratives during the 20th century and up to today. He also works on the development of performative forms and short forms devoted to pop culture mythologies, such as Atomic Alert or the diptych Beautiful losers. His plays have been published by Théâtre Ouvert / Tapuscrits, l'Avant-Scène Théâtre and Éditions Théâtrales; they have been translated and performed in several countries. The company AsaNIsiMAsa is associated with the Grand R - scène nationale La Roche-sur-Yon, the Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil - CDN, the Apostrophe - scène nationale Cergy-Pontoise & Val d'Oise and is part of the artists' collective Les Intrépides de la SN61 - Scène nationale d'Alençon / Flers / Mortagne-au-Perche. She is subsidized by the DRAC Île-de-France.

L'Instant Donné
instrumental ensemble

The instrumental ensemble L'Instant Donné has the particularity of interpreting contemporary music without a conductor in formations of up to ten musicians. Founded in 2002 and based in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) since 2005, the ensemble brings together a team of eleven people including nine musicians. The functioning is collegial, the artistic and economic choices, the management of the place of work, the organization of the concerts, the schedules and the tours are discussed in common. Musical creation is a priority representing an important part of the activity and the work with composers is developed in the long term. The ensemble performs a recent repertoire as well as selected pieces from the classical period and willingly joins forces with regular partners (vocal ensembles, singers, conductors, sound engineers, choreographers, actors, etc.). Since 2007, L'Instant Donné has been a regular guest at the Festival d'Automne in Paris and offers about thirty concerts per year in France and abroad. L'Instant Donné collaborates with the main European radio stations. In 2018, a double CD on the NoMadMusic label devoted to the works of Gérard Pesson was released. L'Instant Donné is an ensemble associated with the Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil from 2018 to 2021. Every last Sunday of the month, the musicians of L'Instant Donné organize free listening workshops at La Marbrerie in Montreuil. Finally, the ensemble participates in international academies for graduate students. L'Instant Donné is an ensemble associated with the Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil - Centre Dramatique National and is supported by the Ministry of Culture / DRAC Île-de-France as a company with national and international influence, by the department of Seine-Saint-Denis as an artistic residency, by SPEDIDAM and SACEM - culture with private copy. Black Village is supported by the Région Île-de-France as a project aid.

Lutz Bassmann alias Antoine Volodine
author

Lutz Bassmann belongs to a world of fiction. He is a fighter and a writer (he participated in the collective work Le Post-exotisme en dix leçons, leçon onze - Collection Blanche, Gallimard 1998). The place where he pursues his existence is not precisely communicated, because, although he is nowhere, he can be anywhere on the planet. Antoine Volodine spent his childhood and adolescence in Lyon, where he also did his higher studies. After having taught Russian for fifteen years, he chose to devote himself to writing and translation. In 1985, he entrusted a manuscript to Denoël, which published his first four novels. His work, with its demanding poetics, escapes all classification and today includes more than forty titles. Volodine, who says he "practices literature like a martial art" and "writes foreign literature in French", gives a voice to marginal, imprisoned or unbalanced writers in his novels. He claims the role of "spokesman" in preference to that of author. He has forged a singular and violent universe, on the edge of fantasy, surrealism and political fiction, where the voices of visionary shamans and the whispers of men and women who lost the revolutionary war are superimposed. He calls himself this novelistic construction post-exoticism.