Daughters of sun-god Helios and sisters of Phaethon, the Heliades are disconsolate after their brothers’ death, and end up turning into poplars. Madeleine Fournier offers an interpretation of this myth where the metamorphosis is seen at once like a death unto oneself and a continuation of life in a new, radically different form. She creates a dance inspired by the movements of plants and the earthly powers that both constrain and allow its existence: fixity, gravity, light. Bagpipes music, performed live by musician Julien Desailly, amplifies the affective dimension of this transformation: sadness, despair, or maybe joy? Madeleine Fournier unfolds a form which alternates between poetry and humour to tell the nearly motionless epic of a plant trying to uproot itself to rediscover its lust for life.
그리스 신화 속 헬리아데스(Héliades) 이야기에서 출발하여, 마들렌 푸르니에는 식물의 삶과 죽음의 사이클을 관능적이고 시적인 몸짓으로 탐구한다.
Distribution
With Madeleine Fournier
And Julien Desailly
Choregraphy Madeleine Fournier
Music Julien Desailly
Scenography creation Andrea Baglione
Lighting Andréa Baglione, Nicolas Marie
Choregraphy assistant Jérôme Andrieu
Costume Lou Thonet
Outside perspective Sonia Garcia, Ruth Childs, Catherine Hershey, Anne Lenglet
General management Jeanne Laffargue
Sound engineering Vincent Domenet
Administration, Production and Distribution bureau Retors Particulier
Production Chloé Béasse
Administration Nolwenn Mornet
Development Margot Quénéhervé
Production
Production ODETTA
Co-production La place de la danse CDCN de Toulouse, La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux et La Rochelle, L’Atelier de Paris CDCN, Le Pacifique CDCN Grenoble Aura
Coproduced Festival d’Avignon, Les Hivernales CDCN d’Avignon
With de support of L’Essieu du Batut (Murols), le CN D Pantin, Honolulu Nantes, Théâtre de la Bastille (Paris)
Artist residencies La Pop (Paris)
The ODETTA company is supported by the Île-de-France Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs.
This project was funded by the Île-de-France Region.