François Chaignaud, Akaji Maro
GOLD SHOWER
novembernov 21 – 23
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Friday november 21
20h30
Saturday november 22
18h
Sunday november 23
16h30
Conception and performance by François Chaignaud, Akaji Maro. Costumes Romain Brau, Cédrick Debeuf, Kyoko Domoto. Omote (Japanese theatre mask) Seitaro Ozu. Lighting design Abigail Fowler. Set design François Chaignaud, Abigail Fowler, Akaji Maro. Sound management Caroline Mas. Stage management Anthony Merlaud. Japanese interpreter Mohamed Ghanem. Assistant (to Akaji Maro) Naomi Muku (Dairakudakan). Artistic collaboration (with François Chaignaud) Baudouin Woehl.
Production Mandorle productions (Chloé Perol, Jeanne Lefèvre, Emma Forster)
Domestic touring Mandorle productions
International touring A propic (Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent)
Co-production Pôle Européen de Création – French Ministry of Culture – Maison de la Danse Lyon, in support of the Biennale de la danse Lyon 2020; Maison de la Musique de Nanterre – Nationally contracted stage; Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy; Charleroi danse – Choreographic Centre of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation; Chaillot – National Theatre of Dance; Le Quartz – National Stage of Brest; Teatro Municipal do Porto; Le Manège, National Stage – Reims; Setagaya Public Theatre (Tokyo); The Japan Foundation; Festival d’Automne in Paris; Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Mandorle productions is supported by the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes – French Ministry of Culture, and the Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
With the support of Le Regard du Cygne, La Villette – Paris, and Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers – National Drama Centre
With the artistic participation of the Jeune Théâtre National
Special thanks to Dominique Laulanné, Aya Soejima, Kei Osawa, Yoko Shinfune, and the entire Dairakudakan team
François Chaignaud is associate artist at Chaillot – National Theatre of Dance, at Maison de la Danse, and at the Biennale de Lyon
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels and the Franco-Japanese Sasakawa Foundation
Maison de la Musique de Nanterre – Nationally contracted stage and the Festival d’Automne in Paris are co-producers of this work.
With the support of
The encounter between the Japanese butoh dancer Akaji Maro, master of the strange and the absurd, and the multi-faceted singer and choreographer François Chaignaud turns their duet at the frontiers of different genres into a pagan ritual, a celebration of bodies in all their states. GOLD SHOWER, a mirrored portrait of two unclassifiable figures, transcends differences in which the joy of disruption is played out to the full.
For Akaji Maro, butoh is a discipline of emptiness, a way of allowing the body to mutate until it becomes a receptacle of endless projections and associations. On seeing François Chaignaud's solo Думи мої (Dumy Moyi), Akaji Maro was struck by the fluidity of the former and his constantly-changing body. The duo born from their encounter brings two radically different cultural worlds face-to-face. Delving into their respective references, and via interplay in terms of their otherness, ages and projections they convoke, they mutually fabricate a porous continuum of space and time, which is conducive to drifting states and incandescence. Alternating between courtship and sado-masochistic play, the grotesque and the disturbing, and from eroticism to pure rhythmicity, they formulate a secret rite whose coordinates they invent. From masks to masquerades, they blur identities and genders, crafting their different states in order to bring forth moving bodies whose radical strangeness recalls the Japanese ideogram "myo", meaning "excellent to the point of being inexplicable."
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