François Chaignaud, Aymeric Hainaux
Fracas × 7
septembersept 23
© Helge Krückeberg ©
Concept and performance Aymeric Hainaux, François Chaignaud. Artistic collaboration Sarah Chaumette. Costume design Sari Brunel. Technical and lighting management Marinette Buchy. Sound management Patrick Faubert.
Fracas × 7 is a variation of the project Mirlitons, created at MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis in October 2023.
Executive production Mandorle productions (Chloé Perol, Jeanne Lefèvre, Emma Forster)
Co-produced by MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis; Festival d’Automne à Paris; Charleroi danse – Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles; Maison de la Danse de Lyon – Pôle européen de production; NEXT Arts Festival; Theater Rotterdam; Triennale Milano; KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen (Hanover); Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy
With the support of Espace Pasolini / Laboratoire artistique – Valenciennes; La Villette – Paris, Initiatives d’Artistes; Malraux scène nationale Chambéry Savoie; Les Aires – Théâtre de Die et du Diois, certified national stage for "Art en territoire"
Mandorle productions is supported by the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes – French Ministry of Culture and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region.
François Chaignaud is associate artist at Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse, the Maison de la Danse and the Biennale de Lyon.
Presented in co-presentation by Librairie 7L and the Festival d’Automne à Paris, as part of Librairie 7L’s Exquis programme.
With the support of
Choreographer François Chaignaud and beatboxer Aymeric Hainaux weave a physical and musical alchemy in which sound, voice and rhythm intertwine with performative intensity. Fracas × 7 is the continuation of Mirlitons, in its exploration of a unique body and sound-based language.
Fracasser means ‘to smash’ in English. In this piece, the pulsating voices, steps, and bodies are allowed to collide and resonate. François Chaignaud and Aymeric Hainaux bring us an alternative version of this din-making duo specially designed for the 7L setting. In response to the book Respirer. La puissance créatrice du souffle by Maurice Fréchuret, chosen as part of the Exquis program, they focus on the odd more than the even, the former being "vaguer and more soluble in the air / without anything in it that weighs or sets down." Their noisy fantasy, resolutely polysemic and polyrhythmic, is accompanied, for the occasion, by a publication – a mischievous correspondence in mirliton verse, and heptasyllabic stanzas. Whether it be through verse, rhythms, voice, or steps, irregularity finds its way into all the different mechanisms, short-circuiting the various genres. Our ears delight to the sound of beatbox as it meets lyrical singing, and Larsen feedback as it rubs shoulders with cannibalistic pastoral.
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