Object of the residency: recording and composing
Lyrical and choreographic performance
"Hidden in the thickness of the forests, Echo's voice always answers the voice that calls her, but no one can see this unfortunate Nymph." Ovid, Metamorphoses.
When Narcissus calls Echo, she can only repeat the last words of the man she loves. The weary young man abandons the nymph. Narcissus finally falls in love with his own reflection in the water, and dies of his passion. Echo remains alone in this space, where the silence around her takes over. This is where our performance begins, in a world of silence.
Echo wanders for a long time. To escape her pain, she tries to walk, to grasp, to see, to hear and to say again: one step after another, one breath after another, one sound after another.
Reduced to a primitive state, Echo re-experiences, like a child, the sounds of the world. She chews them, and by dint of eating them and experimenting with them in her own flesh, she gives them a new consistency. The sounds, and their echoes, permeate her body, giving it life. By dint of being unfolded, repeated, transformed and accumulated, the sounds become words, then phrases, and finally songs.
It is through the rediscovery and re-appropriation of sounds that Echo overcomes the repetition of which she was a prisoner, and is able to utter them freely. Initially truncated, her sentences become increasingly full. As Écho's words unfold in space, so does her bodily metamorphosis. She is no longer frozen or reduced to snatches of phrases, but becomes a whole being (full-fledged), a being that speaks.
Écho is a vocal, visual and bodily performance for soprano. The composition is for one voice, then repeated and superimposed, becoming polyphony. The transformation of the solitary song into a polyphonic voice represents the emancipation of the character, who must seek out new voices to relearn language. Working with choreographer Thierry Thieü Niang, who will accompany the stage movement, will add a bodily dimension to the performance, adding another layer of emotion and narrative.
Support
Collection Lambert ; DRAC Paca ; Rouvrir le monde
Jimmy Boury
Jimmy Boury is an artist, working on stage productions using light and sound as his main materials, to create forms between sensory experience and theatrical performance. After graduating with a degree in electronics for the aeronautical industry, he turned down a job with a satellite ground station at the last minute and moved to Paris to continue his studies as a sound engineer, joining the Théâtre de la Ville in 2011.
In 2013, he met choreographer Thierry Thieû Niang, with whom he began a ten-year collaboration as sound designer, lighting designer, set designer and, finally, co-director. Recognized as a lighting designer, he collaborates with numerous artists in the fields of theater, opera and contemporary dance.
He now stages performances and creates synesthetic installations, linking sound and touch, or light and music. He collaborates on his projects with contemporary authors (Aurélien Bellanger, Baptiste Beaulieu), actors, dancers and singers, as well as with amateurs from all generations. His artistic orientations lie somewhere between contemporary art and live performance, creating innovative and sensitive performative forms. These range from objects interacting with humans via electrodes or simple contact with water (Osmos project), to live compositions accompanying a reading in Monet's Water Lilies.
Emmanuelle Jakubek
holds a Master's degree in singing from the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne (Switzerland), in the class of Frédéric Gindraux and Jean-Philippe Clerc. She also holds a Lied&Mélodie prize from the Paris Conservatoire in Françoise Tillard's class, a violin degree from Pôle supérieur 93, a musicology degree from Université Paris 8, and a higher drama diploma from Cours Florent Paris.
She continued her training through master-classes with renowned artists such as Thomas Hampson, Regina Werner, Anne LeBozec, Élène Golgevit, Charlotte Bonneu and Marie-Claude Chappuis.
With a background combining singing, instruments, theater and dance (10 years of classical training), Emmanuelle has acquired many skills that have enriched her musical discourse. This young French soprano is a laureate of the Royaumont Foundation, following her participation in a work session on Mahler's lieder stands with Thomas Hampson.
We recently heard her in the role of Petra in Thomas NGuyen's Xynthia at Opéra de Reims, Opéra de Metz; in the role of La Foret in Like Flash by Sivan Eldar at the Opéra National de Lorraine, at the Shostakovich Center with the Metral Trio in the Romances, at La Scala Paris in a duo with Anne LeBozec in a Viardot program, in a Mahler-Zemlinsky recital at the Lagrange-Fleuret library with Juliette Sabbah, or in the role of the Bride in Stravinsky's Les Noces at Saint Eustache.
Thierry Thieû Niang
Thierry Thieû Niang is a dancer and choreographer.
Alongside his creative career, he initiates choreographic research workshops with professionals and amateurs, children, teenagers, adults and seniors, autistic people and prisoners.
Officier des Arts et des Lettres, laureate of the Villa Médicis Hors les Murs, the Fondation Unesco Aschberg and the SACD Choreographer Prize, he works with art schools, conservatoires supérieurs d'art dramatique et chorégraphique, neighborhood associations, hospitals and prisons in various cities in France and abroad. In this new 23/24 season, he is collaborating with various directors, choreographers, actors and musicians on shared creations with:
Dominique Blanc, Imany, Anne Alvaro, Élisabeth Chailloux, Julie Bertin and Jade Herbulot, Léna Paugam and Babouillec, Simone Menezes, Michèle Noiret, Jimmy Boury, Julien Fiśera, Pascal Kirsch, Laurent Naouri, Simon Deletang.... and has been invited to perform at the MC93 in Bobigny, the Académie Fratellini in Saint-Denis, the Orchestre de Chambre and the Philharmonie in Paris, the Hôpital psychiatrique Saint-Jean-de-Dieu and the Maison de la Danse in Lyon, the Théâtre CDN in Lorient, the Centro de Artes da Maré (CAM) in Rio de Janeiro and at The Invisible Dog Art Center in New York.
Charlotte Gautier van Tour
Graduated and commended from the École NationaleSupérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris in 2014, she continued as a research student in the Reflective Interaction research program at EnsadLab until 2017. After taking part in several residencies in France and abroad, she currently lives and works in Marseille. Her artistic approach is based on the desire to reveal the interdependence of all things, to reveal the connections between ecosystems and beings, to confront our bodies with other species and other dimensions.
Having always been fascinated by the transformation of matter (whether organic, like algae, or immaterial, like light), one of the main challenges she has set herself for the coming years is to address the living, resilience and ecology in her installations. To this end, she develops her own bio-sourced materials, recycles various materials and favors the local economy for both her personal consumption and her artistic production. Science is a source of inspiration that enables her to understand certain physical and chemical laws that weave our world and the great correspondences linking microscopic and macroscopic worlds. A practitioner of fundamental research, she also likes to cultivate chance and serendipity in her studio, which resembles a laboratory as much as a kitchen.
Jimmy Boury
design and direction
Jimmy Boury, Emmanuelle Jakubek
composition
Emmanuelle Jakubek
vocals
Thierry Thieû Niang
choreography
Charlotte Gautier van Tour, Jimmy Boury
set design