Creation 2021

Fantômes - morts ou vifs? is a multidisciplinary performance created with visual artist/performer Elizabeth Saint-Jalmes, and light/sound designer Cyril Leclerc.

Starting point: Elizabeth, Cyril and I have put together our artistic ghosts, i.e. concepts, ideas and materials that haunt us from project to project, and that we can't get rid of.

Build around four dance sequences, the performance opens with a collapse that brings a symbolic universe of strong images to life. Zany figures, deformed, dramatic and derisory creatures appear successively. Together, they play the game of life and death in an quirky way, without seriousness or solemnity.

An extravagant and intimate performance, by three long-time accomplices.

Concept, choreography and performance: Blandine Pinon; scenography, costumes and performance: Elizabeth Saint-Jalmes; light and sound design: Cyril Leclerc; production: Association Seebergsee.

With the support of: Kultur Stadt Bern, SWISSLOS / Kultur Kanton Bern, Migros Aare Kulturprozent, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS, Burgergemeinde Bern, GVB Kulturstiftung, Gesellschaft zu Ober-gewern.

Performances: 28. + 29.08.2021 @ Rennweg 26 - Biel/Bienne, 22. + 23.09.2021 @ TANZhAUS / Junge Bühne Bern, 20.06.2021 as part of Elizabeth Saint-Jalmes' exhibition Abri trou by @ Le Générateur / Paris ; 13. + 16.09.2020 (work in progress) as part of BETA Stage Festival 2021 @ Atelier 369 - HKB / Bern

Thanks: Freiform / Bern, Atelier 369 - HKB / Bern, BETA Stage Festival.

(photos: T. Bellecave)