After last year’s debut at Romaeuropa with ‘Hakanaï’, Adrien M/Claire B come back to Romaeuropa Festival with their new show, ‘Le mouvement de l’air’, a dreamlike and poetic landscape shifting between dance and digital technology. Adrien Mondot (computer scientist and juggler) and Claire Bardainne (graphic designer and digital scenographer) have been working together since 2004 in that peculiar, fertile borderland where digital art and live performance intersect. The poetic quality of their shows lies in the presence of the human body in movement, which they place at the center of sophisticated digital environments with which the body interacts in real time: the sets are created with hardware and software technologies, which are often developed by the two artists, as in eMotion. Their creations are abstract, non-figurative and characterized by a minimalistic design. The set appears as a suggestive combination of physical and virtual reality, a world apart that only digital technology could give life to. For ‘Le mouvement de l’air’, Guillaume Bertrand choreographed for three performers (a woman and two men) an acrobatic and formalized piece, thus inventing a body language in order to experiment with time, space and the world. This lyrical, subtle game of the imagination is Adrien M/Claire B’s most distinctive feature. Their artistic research aims at exploring a space between fiction and reality, where all the images – those of the dancers, those filtered by the computer, as well as the synthetic ones – are fused together in one enveloping movement.
Conception, Artistic direction, Scenography, Stage setting Claire Bardainne & Adrien Mondot
Computer design Adrien Mondot Choreography Yan Raballand
Dance Rémi Boissy, Farid-Ayelem Rahmouni, Maëlle Reymond
Choreographical collaboration Guillaume Bertrand Light design David Debrinay
Music Jérémy Chartier Costumes Marina Pujadas Set design, Fly systems Silvain Ohl
General management, Sound engineering Pierre Xucla Stage management Arnaud Gonzales
Light engineering Yan Godat iT development Anomes, Hand Coded
Technical direction Alexis Bergeron Production, Booking Charlotte Auché, Marek Vuiton, Margaux Létang
Photo © Romain Etienne
Produced by Adrien M / Claire B Coproduced by Théâtre de L’Archipel, scène nationale de Perpignan, Le Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf, La Brèche, Pôle national des arts du cirque, Cherbourg-Octeville, Festival GREC, Barcelone (Spain), DICRéAM, Romaeuropa Festival (Italy), Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains, scène conventionnée pour les écritures numériques, Maison des Arts, scène nationale de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne, Espace Jean Legendre, Théâtre de Compiègne, scène nationale de l’Oise en préfiguration, L’Odyssée, institut national des arts du mime et du geste de Périgueux, L’Hexagone, scène nationale Arts-Sciences de Meylan, Centre chorégraphique national de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne / Cie Käfig, dans le cadre de l’Accueil Studio With the support of Le Toboggan, scène conventionnée de Décines, Les Subsistances, laboratoire international de création artistique (Lyon), Maison de la culture de Nevers et de la Nièvre The Adrien M / Claire B Company is accredited by DRAC Rhône-Alpes, Rhône-Alpes Region and is supported by the City of Lyon
