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.

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Biography(s)
Corals
Léo Collin, Leandro Gianini, Dalius Singer
Residence
Mon. Feb. 14 -- Fri. 18, 2022
Distribution

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

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