2009 was a great year for Philippe Quesne. Not only was he asked to perform all over Europe, the audience and the critics also loved his work. Vooruit visitor Ellen described his 2009 piece ‘La Mélancolie des dragons’ as “Probably the best thing I’ve ever seen at Vooruit” on www.vooruit.be and the VRT called it “a masterpiece”.
As always, Quesne will take the title as the starting point for his new piece, the title of this performance being ‘Big Bang’. What Quesne and Vivarium Studio will do with that title is still a mystery, but the makers associate the term ‘Big Bang’ with a gigantic explosion, a scientific revolution, evolution theory and campy onomatopoeic words in comic books. It also brings to mind an island, cavemen, a new beginning, a microcosm of losers wanting to recreate the world, and so on. ‘Big Bang’ will develop like an evolution theory, with radical change, inventions, disappearances and mutations in a time and place where humans and animals live together, silence and language coexist, and everything and nothing coalesces.
- Tags
- theater
- Artists
- Philippe Quesne
- Vivarium Studio
- Gaëtan Vourc'h
- César Vayssié
- Émilien Tessier
- Jung-Ae Kim
- Rodolphe Auté
- Isabelle Angotti
co-production / Belgian premiere
Philippe Quesne (concept & director), Isabelle Angotti, Rodolphe Auté, Jung-Ae Kim, Émilien Tessier, César Vayssié, Gaëtan Vourc’h
Producer: Vivarium Studio
Co-producers: La Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Festival d’Avignon, Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Ghent), Internationales Sommerfestival Hamburg, Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris), Théâtre de l’Agora Scène nationale d’Evry et de l’Essonne, NXTSTP (with the support of Programme Culture de l’Union Européenne): Festival Baltoscandal (Rakvere), Rotterdamse Schouwburg.
Yvan Clédat, Cyril Gomez-Mathieu (artistic and technical co-operations)
Aki Onda, Flowers from the man who shot your cousin, André Prévin, Aphex Twin, Elmer Bernstein, Armando Trovaioli, REQ, Howe Gelb,… (musical excerpts)
with the support of la Région Ile-de-France & CENTQUATRE. La compagnie Vivarium Studio est conventionnée par la DRAC Île-de-France, Ministère de la Culture.
with the support of CULTURESFRANCE
Thank you to Coco Petitpierre, Philippe Granier, Samuel Gutman, Emilie Rousset
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