Maud Blandel
Same Old Songs
(Titre provisoire)
novembernov 20 – 25
Metro
Mairie de Montreuil - ligne 9
Bus
Mairie de Montreuil - Bus 102, 115, 121, 129, 322
Bike
Vélib n°31016 9, rue Franklin + n°310022 9, bd Rouget de Lisle
Friday november 20
20h
Saturday november 21
18h
Monday november 23
20h
Tuesday november 24
20h
Wednesday november 25
20h
Direction and choreography Maud Blandel. Choreography co-created with dancers Jessica Allemann, Lou Couton, Karine Dahouindji and Maya Masse (rotating trio). Sound design Romain Simon, Flavio Virzì and Maud Blandel. Sound design and engineering assistance Simon Leopold. Lighting design Gautier Teuscher. Costume design Julia Bothelo. Administration Vérène Girod / SALVE. Production and distribution Claudia Petagna / I L K A
Production I L K A
Production and distribution Parallèle, Pratiques artistiques émergentes internationales Co-productions Arsenic—Centre d’art scénique contemporain (Lausanne); Pavillon ADC (Geneva); Bonlieu Scène nationale d’Annecy; CNDC–Angers; Centre chorégraphique de Caen en Normandie, as part of the Accueil-studio programme/Ministry of Culture; Chorège CDCN Falaise; ICI CCN de Montpellier as part of the studio residency
With the support of the Canton of Vaud; City of Lausanne; Pro-Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council; Loterie Romande; Cultural Fund of the Swiss Authors’ Society (SSA)
Developed as part of the European project “Lifelong burning” creative crossroads
Maud Blandel is an associate artist at the CNDC–Angers (Centre national de danse contemporaine) and at Bonlieu Scène nationale d'Annecy
The I L K A company has a contract of trust with the City of Lausanne—2024–2027 and an agreement with the Canton of Vaud—2025–2027
The Théâtre Public de Montreuil—Centre dramatique national, The Swiss Cultural Centre and the Festival d’Automne à Paris present this show in corealisation.
Two years after L’œil nu, the choreographer Maud Blandel returns to the Festival d’Automne with Same Old Songs, a piece which takes its inspiration from Virginia Woolf. Between rhythmic hallucination and an unstable trio, it is the extension of a pacifist gesture that flies in the face of the inevitability of war, and goes in search, via the body and sound, of other possible futures.
A piece for three dancers, Same Old Songs takes as its point of departure Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf. Written in 1938 in the form of an epistolary fiction, it gives shape to the response of an “educated man’s daughter”, to the question that an “educated man” poses to her: “in your opinion, what can we do to avoid war?”. Loosely based on this work, Same Old Songs opts for a psychedelic imaginary world and takes the form of an hallucination. Within an ultra-dynamic, disorganised, percussive flow, the choreographer continues to explore sound and movement-based relationships. Following multiple collaborations with different ensembles, Maud Blandel teams up with percussionist Romain Simon in the aim of turning sound design into a dramaturgical driving force in its own right. The performativity they set out to obtain is above all an anarchic one. Through a search for moving bodies at their most intense, at times seized by the rhythm, at others rooted to the spot, any attempt at marching in step is knowingly thwarted.
In the same place
Metro
Mairie de Montreuil - ligne 9
Bus
Mairie de Montreuil - Bus 102, 115, 121, 129, 322
Bike
Vélib n°31016 9, rue Franklin + n°310022 9, bd Rouget de Lisle