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Premieres on Septembre 8th 2024 at the Fondation Royaumont
In absentia offers an unprecedented situation : to infiltrate the heart of a group of artists, singers and dancers, and experience the fabrication of polyphony and collective gesture. As closely as possible to the performers and their gestures, the audience, seated in concentric circles, becomes the witness and the source of a continuous movement that surrounds and crosses them.
The thirteen performers, linked by a long shared practice, explore the repertoires of the Renaissance sacred music. Based on artworks related to the rites of the dead, In absentia reveals the dizzying architectures of these sonic representations of the afterlife and absence. Composed to reflect the harmony of the spheres and the movement of the constellations, these works unfold through the bodies of the thirteen performers, engaged in an uninterrupted movement and embodied in the form of medieval tresques, bas-reliefs and gruesome dances.
TUMULUS
In absentia places the audience at the heart of a paradox: it is only through an utterly human effort that the illusion of an afterlife can arise. Immersed among the performers, the audience witnesses the entire manufacturing process of a polyphony, from gesture to unison, from slowness to frantic speed. All the strategies of listening, all the efforts, the breaths, the sweats, the micro-signals become one of the materials of this performance that experiences the real-time fabrication of the miraculous and the collective.
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co-production
& production
In absentia is a piece imagined from t u m u l u s, premiered on May 2nd 2022 at Bonlieu scène nationale Annecy.
co-productions
Festival d’Automne à Paris
Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse
mandorle productions
Mandorle productions is subsidized by the Ministère de la Culture (DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) and the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
François Chaignaud is an associate artist at Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse as well as the Maison de la danse and the Biennale de la danse de Lyon.
Les Cris de Paris
Les Cris de Paris is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture DRAC Île-de-France, the Île-de-France Region and the City of Paris.
t u m u l u s co-productions
Bonlieu scène nationale d’Annecy, Wiener Festwochen, La Villette, Paris – Initiatives d‘Artistes, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Théâtre de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, l’Opéra de Dijon, Le Manège, scène nationale – Reims, La Cité musicale-Metz, Points Communs, scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise, TANDEM Scène nationale, la Ménagerie de Verre, Malraux. scène nationale Chambéry Savoie, la Scène nationale d’Orléans, le Théâtre Molière > Sète, scène nationale archipel de Thau, le Théâtre de Cornouaille, la Scène Nationale du Sud-Aquitain, Berliner Festspiele, le Ballet national de Marseille – CCN, la maisondelaculture de Bourges / Scène Nationale, la Maison de la Danse à Lyon,Théâtre Auditorium Poitiers.
t u m u l u s supports
MC93 – maison de la culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, L’échangeur CDCN Hauts-de-France, la Fondation Royaumont, Asnières-sur-Oise, CN D Centre national de la Danse – accueil en résidence, Le Regard du Cygne, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
t u m u l u s received exceptional production support from the French Ministry of Culture – Direction générale de la création artistique.
t u m u l u s is supported by “PEPS” Plateforme Européenne de Production Scénique Annecy-Chambéry-Genève-Lausanne within the framework of the European program of cross-border cooperation Interreg France-Switzerland 2014-2020.
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels.
Fusalp supports the realization of the costumes.
Construction of the set : Ateliers de la maison de la culture Bourges/Scène nationale. With the participation of the Jeune Théâtre National.