Nexus de l’adoration

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Joris Lacoste

France / Creation Festival d’Avignon 2025

If a religion were to be created today, what would its liturgy look like? Joris Lacoste imagines a colourful and musical ceremony, brimming with humour and poetry. 

Nexus de l'adoration, Joris Lacoste, 2025 © DALL E

Presentation

In a world where we feel we belong to multiple groups but where our experiences are unique, Nexus de l’adoration celebrates heterogeneity by imagining a new religion whose mission would be to sing the praises of all things in the world, from electronic cigarettes to Dragon Ball Z, from Argentine tango to humpback whales. During a ceremony that looks a little like a musical, nine officiants weave together absurd invocations and pop choruses, galvanising speeches and unsettling confessions, deadpan stories and R’n’B choreographies. Playing with the juxtaposition and collision of disparate elements, Nexus de l’adoration creates a community for a future world, giving voice not only to a universal and homogeneous ideal, but to a joyful symphony of differences and dissonances. 

إذا تم إنشاء ديانة في يومنا الحاضر، كيف يا ترى ستبدو طقوسها؟ يتخيل جوريس لاكوست مراسم غنية   بالألوان والموسيقى تفيض بالفكاهة والشعر. 

Distribution

Performance and contribution to writing Daphné Biiga Nwanak, Camille Dagen, Flora Duverger, Jade Emmanuel, Thomas Gonzalez, Léo Libanga, Ghita Serraj, Tamar Shelef, Lucas Van Poucke

Conception, text, music, direction Joris Lacoste
Scenography and lighting Florian Leduc
Choreographic collaboration Solène Wachter
Music and sound collaboration Léo Libanga
Costume Carles Urraca
Sound Florian Monchatre
Assistant stage direction Léo Libanga

General stage management Marine Brosse with the assistance of Seydou Grépinet
Production and promotion Hélène Moulin-Rouxel et Colin Pitrat (Les Indépendances)
Administration Edwige Dousset

Production

Delegated production Compagnie Échelle 1:1
Associated production La Muse en Circuit Centre national de création musicale
Co-production Bonlieu Scène nationale (Annecy), MC93 Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, Théâtre Garonne Scène européenne (Toulouse), Les Célestins Théâtre de Lyon, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Festival d’Avignon, Centre Dramatique National Orléans / Centre-Val-de-Loire, Festival Musica Strasbourg

With the support Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Fonds de production Drac Île-de-France et pour la 79e édition du Festival d’Avignon : Spedidam.
With the artistic support Jeune théâtre national et du dispositif d'insertion de l'Ecole du TNB
Artistic residency Abbaye de Noirlac, La Muse en Circuit CNCM, MAC de Créteil, Cromot (Paris), MC93 (Bobigny), Bonlieu (Annecy), Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse). La compagnie Échelle 1:1 est conventionnée par le ministère de la Culture et de la Communication / Drac Île-de-France et soutenue par la Région Île-de-France.
Acknowledgments Alan Hammoudi, Assia Turquier-Zauberman

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