A star is said to begin dying when, having exhausted its hydrogen reserves, it leaves its state of equilibrium. This marks the beginning of a long phase of degeneration that, depending on the star's size, will lead to the collapse of its core or even a violent explosion. For this new creation, Maud Blandel combines the astrophysical phenomenon of pulsars with the tragic sound memory of the explosion of her father's heart.
By translating principles such as rotation, gravity and periodicity, L'œil nu involves six dancers and transforms the stage space into a veritable observation ground: faced with a body (stellar, physical, collective) that degenerates, what do we really perceive?
"Associating my father's shooting suicide with the explosion of a star's core was not a quest for "reparation". No. What's at stake in the play is the perception of what's falling within us and around us, of the inner and outer conflicts that rage, and of what, one day, causes everything to fall apart." Maud Blandel
Rather than reconstructing an autobiographical event, the choreographer plays with changes of scale, thwarting the tragic and putting into images the (dys)workings of memory: its persistence, its loops as much as its holes and other shadowy areas. For it is where memory inevitably fails that the power of the imagination comes into play. Making image(s), then, in order to give shape to those we lack, to distort those we have, and to celebrate through the body that which is beyond our understanding.
In co-production with Ballet national de Marseille and GMEM - Centre national de création musicale
Production
I L K A
Administration
Alexandra Nivon for I L K A
Production et diffusion
Parallèle, Pratiques artistiques émergentes internationales Production, Festival, Coopération Marseille
Coproductions
Arsenic Centre d'art scénique contemporain - Lausanne, Pavillon ADC - Genève & La Bâtie - Festival de Genève, Centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, within the framework of Accueil-studio/Ministère de la Culture.
With the support of the Cndc - Angers as part of Accueil Studio
Support
Etat de Vaud, Ville de Lausanne, Loterie romande, Pro Helvetia, Fondation suisse pour la culture, Fondation Ernst Göhner, Pour-cent culturel Migros
Maud Blandel is an associate artist of the Cndc - Angers
La compagnie I L K A benefits from a contract of trust with the City of Lausanne - 2021-2024.
With the support of Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.
With the support of Corodis and Loterie Romande.
As part of the Radio That Matters project.
Many thanks to Friche la Belle de Mai for the loan of equipment.
Maud Blandel
Trained initially in contemporary dance, then in directing (Manufacture, Lausanne) and visual arts (HEAD, Geneva), Maud Blandel has been developing her own choreographic pieces since 2015. Singular and physically engaged, each of her works relies on a conceptual musical base in order to put into body and form various phenomena altered by the passage of time. She works on the notion of the sacrificed body and the spectacle of the female body(TOUCH DOWN, 2015), on the folklorization of popular dance practices(Lignes de conduite, 2018), on the killing of time via a type of 17th-century musical entertainment called Divertimento(Diverti Menti, 2020).
Alongside her activities, she works as an assistant to artists such as Cindy Van Acker, Karim Bel Kacem, Heiner Goebbels and Romeo Castellucci.
Since 2016, Maud Blandel has been supported by Parallèle in production and dissemination. She has been artist-in-residence at the Arsenic - center d'art scénique contemporain de Lausanne since September 2018, and associate artist at the CNDC - Angers as well as at Bonlieu - scène nationale d'Annecy.
As part of the Parallèle festival, she presented Touch Down at ZEF in 2016 and an in situ version at Mucem in 2018. Lignes de conduites was presented at KLAP Maison pour la danse in 2019 and Diverti Menti at Théâtre des Bernardines in 2016.
Ballet National de Marseille
20, boulevard de Gabès13008
Marseille
RATES
Full €15
Reduced €10
DURATION
60 min.
The February 4 performance will be followed by a stage-side meeting with the artistic team, moderated by Elena Biserna, researcher and curator, in conversation with Christian Sebille, director of GMEM - Centre national de création musicale.
Bar and catering on site
Maud Blandel
direction, choreography
Karine Dahouindji
Maya Masse
Tilouna Morel
Ana Teresa Pereira
Romane Peytavin
Simon Ramseier
danseur-euse-s
Flavio Virzì
Denis Rollet
Maud Blandel
sound design
Daniel Demont
Florian Bach
lighting design
Denis Rollet
sound engineer
Marie Bajenova
costumes
Anna-Marija Adomaityte
outside view
