Composition residency.
Histoire(s) d'Antigone is the next creation by Laëtitia Pitz, director of the Compagnie Roland furieux. She has invited composer and pianist Christian Wallumrød to take part in this work, which blends text and music around the figure of Antigone.
Together, they will work from the play by Anglo-Canadian poet Anne Carson, Antigonick (translation by Édouard Louis, L'Arche, 2019).
"Antigonick - that which relates to Antigone.
Anne Carson posits Antigonick as a translation of Sophocles'Antigone.
She asserts this. Pushing the language into its modernity, its irreverence.
She plays with the great interpretations of Antigone - from Hegel to Judith Butler - offering us a sister-daughter of Oedipus who struggles not only with the family curse, but with the curse of all those who speak in her name.
Antigone, heiress to the incestuous Labdacides family, knows she must embark on other futures. She dies buried alive, but she wants to open up a clearing where she can live well with others, where she can invent ways to mitigate violence. Antigone offers succeeding generations the conditions for living joyfully, fiercely, benevolently and responsibly. She offers us the resources to invent ways of living within a world at war, without accepting its terms. And I'm following Bernard Stiegler's thought, who saw Greta Thunberg saying, head-on, to the powerful of this world: "How dare you?", the Antigone of the 21st century." - Laëtitia Pitz
Delegated production
Cie Roland furieux
Coproduction
La Filature - Scène nationale de Mulhouse (in progress)
Laëtitia Pitz (La Cie Roland furieux)
Director
As a member of the Roland furieux company, director and actress Laëtitia Pitz has developed her stage work by paying particular attention to the resources of the world of sound. The interweaving of literature, whether repertory or contemporary, with musical creation is now the mainstay of her approach, which places listening at the heart of her projects.
Encounters with musicians who invent sounds, such as Xavier Charles, and particularly the discovery of improvised music, have encouraged this happy evolution.
Christian Wallumrød
Composer and pianist
Christian Wallumrød has been working as a musician and composer since 1992. He is considered one of the most prominent and influential musicians of his generation in Norway. After his debut on ECM Records, he released a series of albums with Christian Wallumrød Ensemble (CWE) on the same label, all to critical acclaim. As well as being the composer and leader of his own ensemble, Christian Wallumrød also focuses on improvisation with another long-standing collaboration, the Franco-Norwegian group Dans Les Arbres, also with album releases on ECM. Christian Wallumrød collaborates with numerous international groups and artists. And with Laëtitia Pitz, director and actor with the Roland furieux company, for two literary concerts: Mourir et puis sauter sur son cheval after David Bosc and Danse avec Nathan Golshem after Lutz Bassman with the Dans les Arbres quartet. He composed the music for the libretto Antigonick after Anne Carson.
Laëtitia Pitz
director
Anaïs Pélaquier
artistic collaborator
Christian Wallumrød
composer and pianist
Jan Martin Gismervik
percussionist
Isabelle Busac
Production and Distribution Manager