Je suis venue

  • Theatre
  • Dance
  • Performance
  • 25th hour
The 2012 archive

Yalda Younes & Gaspard Delanoë

Je suis venue © Quentin Dufour / Festival d'Avignon

Presentation

What would happen if, after their press conferences, politicians had to dance their speeches? Using a pastiche of an international conference rapidly turning into the zaniest proposals, the performer Gaspard Delanoë, accompanied by the powerful rhythm of the zapateo of the Lebanese dancer Yalda Younes, orchestrates a peace plan for the Middle East, “between utopia and cold realism”. And when the words and their spoken translations are no longer sufficient, you must then “throw your body into the battle”. The martial cutting edge of the flamenco of Yalda Younes, trained in the characteristic grammar of the great master Israel Galván, who is the piece's choreographer, speaks clearly. Je suis venue proposes a fully fledged language to us that is freed from the triviality of our everyday language, to attempt to tell us something essential. MS

Distribution

conception Yalda Younes, Gaspard Delanoë
writing and original idea Gaspard Delanoë
choreography Israel Galván

with Yalda Younes et Gaspard Delanoë

 

Production

production compagnie Humus / Yalda Younes & Gaspard Delanoë
with the support of: Théâtre d'Arles, CND and Quartz Scène nationale de Brest

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