Gaëlle Bourges
La petite soldate
novembernov 15 – 16
Saturday november 15
16h
Sunday november 16
14h
Design Gaëlle Bourges. Outside view Agnès Butet.
The narrator Gaëlle Bourges. La petite soldate et la diable Dolls. Actress for the French sign language Lucie Lataste. Narration in voice-over Gaëlle Bourges, based on the work of Igor Stravinsky and Charles Ferdinand Ramuz. ECPAD (Defence Communications and Audiovisual Production Establishment) archive images – montage Claire Ananos. Accessories and costumes Gaëlle Bourges, Anne Dessertine. Dolls Anne Dessertine. The Bee Gees, KrYstian, Stéphane Monteiro a.k.a XtroniK, Walter Murphy, Igor Stravinsky. The Story of the Soldier Suite (Small tunes by the stream, Pastoral, Royal March, Triumphal March of the Devil). Light Morgane Viroli. General and light control Tatiana Carret. Sound control Stéphane Monteiro or Guillaume Olmeta. Acknowledgements Gilbert Teste (for the doll tree), Josette Vasseur Peters (for the sewing machine and the beret). Administration and general coordination Os Marie Collombelle. Logistics Os Cyann Desvaux. Production and distribution Isabelle Morel – Fabrik Cassiopée Paris
Production association OS
Coproduction T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Centre Dramatique National; La briqueterie CDCN du-Val-de-Marne; Charleroi danse – Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles ; Le Volcan – Scène nationale du Havre ; Scène nationale Albi-Tarn; L'échangeur – CDCN Hauts-Hauts-Brusselsde France; Atelier de Paris / CDCN; Lillico Rennes; Théâtre Antoine Vitez – Scène d'Ivry; Théâtre Jean-Vilar
With the support of the Ménagerie de verre as part of StudioLab; Le Grand R – Scène nationale de La Roche-sur-Yon; Communauté d'agglomération de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
The OS association is supported by the Drac Île-de-France – Ministry of Culture and the Region Île-de-France
The T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Centre Dramatique National and the Festival d'Automne à Paris present this show in co-realization.
Fleeing to her country, where her father and fiancée await her, a female soldier crosses paths with the devil. Gaëlle Bourges reworks the drama by Stravinsky and Ramuz in a solo with two dolls, set to an electro-disco original soundtrack. In a tactful way, La petite soldate poses questions to people of all ages about the place of art in our lives, the impact of war, our relationship to ethics and happiness.
Known for her deconstructive approach to works of art, Gaëlle Bourges turns her attention to the mimed piece composed by Igor Stravinsky, based on a text by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz in 1917, The Soldier’s Tale. The choreographer feminizes the characters, transposes the Great War to a decolonial war, transforms heterosexual love into lesbian love, and furthers the reflection on ethics and happiness present throughout the original text. Two soft rag dolls with featureless, life-size faces represent the soldier and the devil, brought to life by the narrator-performer on a stage framed by a disco floor, accompanied by a soundtrack composed by KrYstian and XtroniK. Even today, it is vitally important that we hear the questions raised by the work: can we really recover from a war? And without art, what are we left with?
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