For the second year, we invite you to Sujets à Vif, these unexepected encounters at the Jardin de la Vierge, between writing and performance, where artists decide to work and build together a totally new itinerary. Bridges are laid out, planned, imagined between performers and writers coming from different backgrounds, from different artistic playgrounds, different from those they usually know or practise. Eight premieres, eight short shows, eight questionings, eight explorations: you will find here, choreography, theatre, music, circus, performance, all disciplines the Sacd covers and to whom once again opportunity is given to exchange and to mingle. We've kept in mind the magic moments of 2008; we hungrily expect surprises to come in 2009. This year again, under the amazed eye of the Blessed Virgin statue peeping over the whole stage - when the host does not decide to discreetly cover her face - , artists and writers from France, but also from Canada, Belgium, Switzerland or Lebanon will confront their own worlds. The Festival d'Avignon and the Sacd build up together these moments of diversity and crossing-over. I wish to stress here the joy of a friendly and perfect collaboration made up of common desires and the pleasure to plan together and expect the unexpected.
Jacques Fansten, president of the Sacd
Programme B
Le Temps scellé
commissioned from Nacera Belaza
First of all time, four and a half weeks, as a first constraint, a framework that it will be impossible to transgress, that implies a dynamic, a rhythm, urgency. A time that organises the way to and the place of the meeting, a time that is limited. And then the desire meet desire to compare two personalities. Face to face, with a bit of emptiness around and between them to reveal what binds them...
choreographer Nacera Belaza, interpreters Nacera Belaza, Serge Ricci
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Ana Fintizarak
commissioned from Yalda Younes
“I am waiting for you.” It is based on the pulsing refrain from an old Egyptian song that the threads of an impossible meeting are woven and unwoven. Bursts of this song come back to haunt Yalda Younes's gestures and Yasmine Hamdam's voice.
dancer and choreographer Yalda Younes, adaptation, composition and singing Yasmine Hamdan
Production
coproduction: Sacd, Festival d'Avignon