Silence

  • Show
  • Music
  • Dance

Lucie Antunes and Mathilde Monnier

France / Creation Festival d'Avignon 2026

On a dance floor that looks like the surface of an LP, Lucie Antunes and Mathilde Monnier offer a sensory and percussive experience revolving around the notions of silence and altered states of consciousness.

Silence, Lucie Antunes and Mathilde Monnier © Patricia Khan

Presentation

Choreographer Mathilde Monnier has partnered with composer, musician, and percussionist Lucie Antunes for a creation revolving around altered states of consciousness and the notion of silence in our contemporary lives. Intensification of sensations, reduction of peripheral awareness, temporal distortion, modification of our perception of time… This choreographed concert opens a space for connection between the stage and the audience to collectively find balance with the sound of the world and explore trance. Energised by 7 dancers and 4 musicians present on stage, Silence is a continuation of rhythm and pulses, a vital thrust, a succession of stupefying images, like the metaphors described in André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto which have the power—according to the poet—to break the rules of the universe.

LP 레코드판의 표면을 닮은 무대 위에서, 루시 안튜네스와 마틸드 모니에는 침묵과 변형된 의식 상태를 화두로 감각적이고 타악적인 경험을 선사한다.

Distribution

With Lucie Antunes, Canblaster, Hans Peter Diop, Lucía García Pullés, Martín Gil, Thiago Granato, Vega Voga, Makeda Monnet,  Carolina Passos Sousa, Sophia Seiss, Judit Waeterschoot.  

Texts Laura Vazquez, Louisahhh, Wolfgang Tillmans, Halo Maud
Composition and music
Lucie Antunes 
Choreography Mathilde Monnier 
Scenography creation  Annie Tolleter  
Lighting Eric Wurtz 
Costume Laurence Alquier, Harmony Coryn 
Stage management and lighting Emmanuel Fornes  
Sound Antoine Varosa  
Sound engineer Stéphane Le Brun  
Administration, Production and Distribution OTTO Productions 

Production

Production Otto Productions, Bonlieu Scène nationale d’Annecy, La Comédie de Valence CDN Drôme-Ardèche dans le cadre de Spirite Pôle international de production et de diffusion
Co-production Cie MM, Cie Sergeï, Festival d’Avignon, MAC de Créteil, L’Equinoxe Scène nationale de Châteauroux, La Comédie Scène nationale de Clermont-Ferrand, Théâtre-Sénart Scène nationale de Lieusaint, Le Théâtre Scène nationale de Saint-Nazaire, Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse), CCN d’Orléans, Maison de la Danse de Lyon, Théâtre national de Bretagne (Rennes), Caramba Culture Live, CENTQUATRE-PARIS

With the help of La Commune CDN d’Aubervilliers  Fondation d’entreprise Hermès 
Artist residencies Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse), CCNO (Orléans), Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, La Halle Tropisme (Montpellier), Bonlieu Scène nationale d’Annecy  
Acknowledgments This performance is dedicated to Stéphane Bouquet, poet, playwright and friend.

Support from the région Occitanie and for the 80th Festival d'Avignon Spedidam

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La matinale – 6 July

  • Café des idées
With Tiphaine Raffier, Lucie Antunes & Mathilde Monnier, François et Christian Gremaud, Carolina Bianchi, Inbo Lee

Free entrance