François Gremaud
Giselle...
© Giselle..., François Gremaud © Dorothée Thébert Filliger ©
© Giselle..., François Gremaud © Dorothée Thébert Filliger ©
© Giselle..., François Gremaud © Dorothée Thébert Filliger ©
Concept and direction, François Gremaud
With Samantha van Wissen
Music, Luca Antignani, based on the work by Adolphe Adam
Musicians alternating, Léa Al-Saghir, Anastasiia Lindeberg, Sandra Borges Ariosa, Laurentiu Stoian, Tjasha Gafner, Valerio Lisci, Antonella De Franco, Letizia Lazzarini, Célia Perrard, Héléna Macherel, Sara Antikainen, Irene Poma, Sara Zazo Romero, Bera Romairone
Text, François Gremaud, based Théophile Gautier, Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges
Choreography, Samantha van Wissen, based on the work by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot
Assistantship, Wanda Bernasconi
Sound, Bart Aga
Tour (alternating), Stéphane Gattoni, Johan Rochat, Jean-Pierre Potvliege
Technical direction 2b company & création lumière, Stéphane Gattoni – Zinzoline
Tour (alternating), Stéphane Gattoni, Johan Rochat, Jean-Pierre Potvliege
Tour manager, Diane Albasini, Emeric Cheseaux, Anouk Werro
Administration, production, diffusion, Noemie Doutreleau, Michael Monney
Produced by 2b company
Coproduced by Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne; Théâtre Saint-Gervais (Genève); Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy; Malraux – Scène nationale
Chambéry Savoie, dans le cadre du projet PEPS – Plateforme Européenne de Production Scénique; Théâtre de la Ville-Paris; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With support from the PEPS Programme for European territorial cooperation INTERREG V
With support from Loterie Romande ; Pro Helvetia, Fondation suisse pour la culture ; Ernst Göhner Stiftung ; Fondation Leenaards ; Pour-cent culturel Migros Vaud ; Fondation Suisse des Artistes Interprètes ; CORODIS
La 2b company is the beneficiary of a Contrat de Confiance from the City of Lausanne and a Convention de Subsvention from the Canton of Vaud.
Giselle… is not Giselle : Giselle… is a theatrical, musical and choreographic piece about Giselle, a monumental figure in Romantic ballet. With Samantha van Wissen – who we have seen dance in productions by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Thomas Hauert –, François Gremaud reshuffles the pack, and by means of suspension points, allows us to catch a glimpse of joy.
On an empty stage, an orator appears. The performer Samantha van Wissen begins by telling the story of Giselle, its context, aesthetics, and fable, and ends up dancing the ballet in her own way. Drawing upon her contemporary vocabulary, she retraces the main scenes, re-enacts the pantomime and plays down the classical language. Following on from Phèdre !, François Gremaud brings us the second opus in a triptych centred upon tragic female figures from the classical performing arts, thereby continuing his development of a stylistic mechanism which consists of reducing a piece into a « paraphrase » for an orator. His mischievous text stratifies the playing levels between the ballet's heroine, main character and performer. Played live, Luca Antignani's score re-instrumentalises the original work and adds a iconoclastic saxophone to the flute, harp and violin trio. If Giselle is a declaration of love, Giselle… is a celebration of joy, the « force majeure » of which the philosopher Clément Rosset is so fond.
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