Formation, 2017
" In 2014, I begin thinking about a new project triggered by the book “Formation” by the French writer Pierre Guyotat.
At the time when I was reading “Formation”, for several years I had already undertaken a reflection on the education of the artist, with representatives of other disciplines, and I experiment on a daily basis with the power of being a satellite around the field of education.
This tangent consists of personal legacy - country, language, education, culture, ones’ story... - and what one lives in the present. I have in mind the image of tectonic plates that will collide in a more or less idle shock!
Every life is a long stretch, a sort of perseverance that invents itself endlessly with its slow accelerations, its peaks and blazing crystallizations, its falls also.
Each body is a permanent archaeology whose strata (physical, sensory, emotional, cognitive) play between each other, inform and complement each other.
It is this permanent (trans)formation that this project sets in motion.
On stage, four characters / four generations: a very young girl, a young man, a mature man, an elderly woman.
I proposed to visual artist Nicolas Floc'h imagining a space, a device that can metamorphose these notions of perseverance, accelerations, efforts, falls.
Each generation will meet, interpret, dance this space in which resonate excerpts from Pierre Guyotat’s opuses, ‘Formation’ and ‘Le Livre’.
The spatial device, the texts and the bodies interpret what takes place in the formation: the slow impregnation, the powerful mutations that are in us and structure us, the accelerated inscription an event by an image, a sound, a smell, an emotion.
The notion of formation is inseparable from a singular context. The staging of the dynamics that alternate taming/emancipation is the heart of the sensitive fabrication of this project.
Thus, Pierre Guyotat’s text, its materiality of sound and sense contribute to the staging of this dynamism.
photos © Marc Domage
FORMATION - TEASER #1 from Plateforme Mùa on Vimeo.
Distribution / Credits
PIECE POUR 4 INTERPRETS
duration : 90 minutes
Conception and choreography
Emmanuelle Huynh
Plastic element
Nicolas Floc’h
Sonography and general accompaniment
Matthieu Doze
Fabrication and interpretation
Imane Alguimaret, Nuno Bizarro, Kate Giquel et Joaquim Pavy
Lights
Sylvie Garot
Costumes
Thierry Grapotte
Technical management
Maël Teillant
Texts by Pierre Guyotat, Formation (2007) and Le livre (1984), editions Gallimard
Recorded excerpts read by Pauline Lefebvre-Haudepin and Genseric Coleno-Demeulenaere
Production
Plateforme Múa
With the support of the Fondation d'Entreprise Hermès as part of its New Settings program
Co-production Thalie Art Foundation (Brussels), Viadanse - national choreographic center of Bourgogne Franche-Comté in Belfort, national choreographic center of Orleans, national choreographic center of Nantes, the Ballet of Lorraine – national choreographic center, Le Theatre Scène Nationale of Saint-Nazaire, Scènes du Golfe, Research Chair of Canada in sound dramaturgy at the theatre of the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (Canada)
In partnership with the Musée de la Danse - national choreographic center of Rennes and of Brittany and the Collectif Danse Rennes Métropole
With the participation of the ESAD from the Théâtre National de Bretagne and the Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau- Centre culturel de rencontres in Ermenonville
With the support of the Pays de la Loire region and the Department of Loire-Atlantique thanks to the creation aid grants.
Press
Art Press special edition for New Settings
Paris Presse
Agenda