If we should continue to use the terms dancers and actors - in fact the word, interpreters is a more precise and unifying definition - it is in fact they who clarify the relationship, around the character of Bérénice, between dance and drama. Their bodies are like witnesses to a certain antiquity, to a certain mythology : from that time when dramatic art first came into being, when a play was a homage to the children of dead warriors; from a time when laws were not written, like that Roman law that prohibits a Roman emperor from marrying a foreign queen, where to accede to power one had to give up one's life as a man. In tackling Racine are we not an attempting to understand the rapport we have with our origins ? A return to sources places the play at the border between two kingdoms, the kingdom of the dead and the kingdom of the living. One director - Frédéric Fisbach, and one choreographer - Bernardo Montet, have worked together to give this Racinian text a new lease of life. An Israeli dancer, Tal Beit-Halachmi, plays (or interprets) Bérénice and reads part of the text in Hebrew.
Distribution
stage direction Lambert Wilson
Phénice : Claire Aveline
Bérénice : Tal Beit-Halachmi
Rutile : Pierre Carniaux
Titus : Jean-Charles Dumay
Arsace : Giuseppe Molino
Paulin : Benoît Résillot
Anthiocus : Marc Veh
Concept : Frédéric Fisbach and Bernardo Montet
Stage design : Emmanuel Clolus
Lighting : Daniel Lévy
Costumes : Olga Karpinsky
Music : David Taïeb
Assistant director : Karine Halpern
Hebrew translation : Aminadav Dyckman
Production
remerciements à : Laurène Blanckaert et Motoï Miura
coproduction : Ensemble Atopique
avec l'aide du : ministère de la Culture et de la Communication-direction des Affaires culturelles de la région Limousin, Association Mawguerite, création Le Quartz-centre national dramatique et chorégraphique de Brest, Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne-centre dramatique national, Théâtre Jean Lurçat-scène nationale d'Aubusson
co-réalisation : Scène nationale d'Evreux
avec le soutien du : Parc de la Villette
avec le concours de : l'Adami