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Teatro Argentina
October 7th - 8th 2017
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Compagnie 111 | Aurélien Bory

Espæce
A piece by Aurélien Bory


 

Along with his Compagnie 111, Aurélien Bory has gained a reputation as a poet of space and a wizard of staging; an artist capable of blending elements of dance, music, magic and circus in his visual theatre.

Created from the comparison with Species of SpaceEspèces d’espace by Georges Perec, Espæce (note the overlapping of the two terms that make up the title of the book) is therefore the natural continuation of this artistic path. With acrobat Guilhem Benoit, dancer Mathieu Desseigne Ravel, contortionist Katell Le Brenn, opera singer Claire Lafilliatre and actor Olivier Martin Salvan, Bory has composed a real tribute to the French writer – who was orphaned at a tender age following the death of his father in war and his mother’s deportation to Auschwitz – in a jigsaw puzzle of faded memories, allusions, voids and absences.

If the theatrical scene is used here to replace the paper pages that make up the famous text, then the hyperbolic language games of Perec are returned through the manipulation of all of its mathematical tools. A new vision machine capable of creating irony, emotion and wonder, or a poetic journey through the many landscapes of our existence.

Credits
Concept, Set, Direction Aurélien Bory Cast Guilhem Benoit, Mathieu Desseigne Ravel, Katell Le Brenn, Olivier Martin Salvan, Claire Lefilliâtre Artistic collaboration Taïcyr Fadel Lights Arno Veyrat Musical composition Joan Cambon Technical concept Pierre Dequivre Costume Sylvie Marcucci Costume dramaturgy Manuela Agnesini General direction Arno Veyrat Stage direction Thomas Dupeyron, Mickaël Godbille Lights direction Arno Veyrat, Carole China Suond direction Stéphane Ley Automatism Coline Féral Production direction Florence Meurisse, Marie Reculon Communication, Public relations Sarah Poirot International development Barbara Suthoff Press office Dorothée Duplan (Plan Bey agency) Production Compagnie 111 - Aurélien Bory Coproduction Festival d’Avignon, TNT - Théâtre national de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Le Grand T théâtre de Loire-Atlantique Nantes, Le théâtre de l’Archipel - scène nationale de Perpignan, Théâtre de la Ville - Paris, Maison des Arts et de la Culture - André-Malraux de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne, Le Parvis scène nationale de Tarbes Pyrénées Residenze La FabricA-Avignon, TNT-Toulouse, CircA-Auch compagnie 111 - Aurélien Bory is agreed upon Ministère de la culture et de la communication - Drac de Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées, la Région Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées et la Ville de Toulouse. Riceve il sostegno del Conseil Départemental de la Haute-Garonne Aurélien Bory is associated artist of Grand T théâtre de Loire-Atlantique à Nantes Aurélien Bory is invited artist of TNT Théâtre National de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées à Toulouse Aurélien Bory is accompanied artist of Théâtre de l’Archipel scène nationale de Perpignan Photo © Aglae Bory