Vimala Pons
Honda Romance
octoberoct 14 – 26
decemberdec 4 – 7
© Vimala Pons ©
Tuesday october 14
20h
Wednesday october 15
20h
Friday october 17
20h
Saturday october 18
20h
Sunday october 19
15h
Tuesday october 21
20h
Wednesday october 22
20h
Friday october 24
20h
Saturday october 25
20h
Sunday october 26
15h
Thursday december 4
21h
Friday december 5
21h
Saturday december 6
19h
Sunday december 7
19h
Design, writing and directing Vimala Pons. Collaboration design, direction and musical compositionTsirihaka Harrivel. Musical composition of the Rebeka Warrior choir. Artistic collaboration for the direction, adaptation and musical arrangement Fiona Monbet, Romain Louveau (Miroirs Étendus). Avec Sabianka Bencsik, Joseph Decange, Océane Deweirder, François Gardeil, Myriam Jarmache, Flor Paichard, Vimala Pons, Firoozeh Raeesdana, Vic Requier, Léa Trommenschlager. Scenographic research Benjamin Bertrand, Marion Flament, Vimala Pons. Scenographic look Marion Flament. Régie générale Benjamin Bertrand, Marc Chevillon. Light creation Arnaud Pierrel. Sound creation Anaëlle Marsollier. Costume creation Marie La Rocca. Costume assistant Anne Tesson. Collaboration, production and artistic coordination Emeline Hervé. Creator of the Souffleurs François Philippi. Construction of the décor Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève. In close collaboration with the administrative, technical and production teams of the Comédie de Genève.
Production TOUT ÇA/ QUE ÇA (Adeline Ferrante); Comédie de Genève (Elena Andrey, Pauline Pierron, Pascale Reneau)
Musical production Mirrors Extended
Coproduction MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble; Les Nuits de Fourvière; Odéon Théâtre de l’Europe; Festival d’Automne in Paris; Théâtre Olympia – Centre dramatique national de Tours; Malraux scène nationale Chambéry Savoie; Le Lieu Unique – scène nationale de Nantes; Centre dramatique national Orléans – Centre-Val de Loire; CENTQUATRE-PARIS; Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Brussels); 3 bis f – Centre d'arts contemporains d'intérêt national
With the support of the BNP Paribas Foundation
Reception in residence La Brèche, Pôle national des arts du cirque de Normandie/ Cherbourg-en-Cotentin; Villa Belleville; la Ménagerie de verre, as part of the StudioLab scheme; MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble
The Odéon Théâtre de l'Europe, the CENTQUATRE-PARIS and the Festival d'Automne à Paris are co-producers of this show. The Odéon Théâtre de l'Europe and the Festival d'Automne à Paris present it in co-realisation.
How can you find your place in a world flooded with information and digital fragments that disappear from one second to the next? At the crossroads between performance, stand-up, and a dialogue between technology and existential reflection, Vimala Pons once again questions the contemporary world by means of a deftly mischievous ballet, set to the music of Rebeka Warrior and Tsirihaka Harrivel.
Each of her pieces is an exploration of balance. Vimala Pons has never stopped investigating this transitory state. Either physically or emotionally, it is a state which calls upon perpetual adjustment to gravity. Since 2010, the performer, director and actress has, in close collaboration with Tsirihaka Harrivel, dedicated herself to rethinking the way circus is written. With its enigmatic title, Honda Romance is a ballet for ten performers played out under the watchful eye of a "satellite-narrator". The performers are continuously on the move and summon up different gestures in order to counter a score of two hundred emotions, each one of which is a movement of self-defense. Insolent and fragile, they traverse a world saturated with information in search of a point of balance. The musical compositions of Tsirihaka Harrivel and Rebeka Warrior, conducted by Fiona Monbet and Romain Louveau, collide with the moving bodies and digital-based memories, for example in the form of voice messages and drafts of text messages. With its blend of humour and nostalgia, the piece is a meditation on the passage of time and impermanence of our existences.
