Research residency
The musicians play a choreographic and musical score like clockwork, guided by sound instructions, while improvising with the delay imposed by the construction of the stage and the interventions of the audience. The aim is to create a lively, humorous and benevolent tension.
Visually, Corals is a succession of living tableaux.
Made up of cardboard boxes, the scenography builds and deconstructs itself, moving from a forest to a gas station, from a cave to simply a stage strewn with cardboard. The scenography also includes microphones, screens and everyday objects: vacuum cleaners, toothbrushes, fans, hairdryers and other tools for cleaning, cutting, tidying, drilling; in short, a host of objects used to refine the environment.
The result is a "choral" composed of classical instruments (voice, flute, saxophone, percussion, electronics), samples of tonal music, single-sound objects, calls and voices transformed by electronics. A symbiosis is formed not only in this chorale of heterogeneous sounds, but also on a broader level, in the relationship between audience and performers.
Production
kit, City of Zurich
Coproduction
Theater am gleis winterthur, GMEM - Centre national de création musicale
Léo Collin
Léo Collin studied musical composition in Geneva, Fribourg and Zurich, musical performance in Lyon, and applied art in Marseille and Besançon. His compositions have been performed at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, Deutsch Theater Berlin, Gessnerallee Zurich, Centre 104 in Paris and Scène Nationale de Perpignan, among others, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Les Métaboles, Musicatreize.
As a performer, he has worked with choreographers Sebastian Matthias, Alessandro Sciarroni, Jeremy Wade and Michael Jarrell at the Centre National de la Danse Pantin, the Comédie Genève and the Opéra de Fribourg en Breisgau. His first musical theater production, Baleen, premiered at Gessnerallee, Zurich.
Léo Collin
design, instrumental and vocal composition, performance
Leandro Gianini
design, technical direction
Dalius Singer
programming, electronic devices
Eric Larrieux
electromechanical device engineer
Kay Zhang, Nuriya Khasenova, Simon Dieterdorfer, Arthur Lanotte-fauré
artistic collaboration and interpretation
Mariana Grünig
costumes, stage
Louise Décaillet
dramaturgy
Meret Roth
assistant production manager
Neue Vocalsolisten
recorded voices