Three life stories delivered to the screen by three individuals that everything seems to oppose. Three strong tales, carried on stage by three artists with different but complementary languages. Using the theatre, circus and music as sociology, the members of the GdRA transmit their voices that have come from the real. Here, the documentary, the installation and the graphic arts are mixed to serve a tale of "theatre anthropology" that puts genuine singularities on stage: Arthur Genibre, an 80-year-old from the Quercy, who had become a musician-healer despite orders from his family to the contrary; Wilfride Piollet, a retired lead dancer from the Opéra de Paris, who says that she was "marginalized" because she defended the post-modern repertory of he 1970s; and Michèle Eclou-Natey, an Algerian-Togolese waitress who comes in daily contact with obvious racism in Marseille, where she continues advan?cing regardless. Beyond the differences in origins, milieus and backgrounds, we discover them uni?ted by the ferocious desire they have shown to escape a destiny whose conformism they reject. Sometimes narrators, sometimes inhabiting the biographies, Christophe Rulhes, Julien Cassier and Sébastien Barrier, in a clever back-and-forth between commitment and distancing, between stage and screen, make these individuals who have paid dearly for their desire for freedom, sensitively exist. Like the acrobat who moves on the stage, these figures have often fallen, but they have always picked themselves up. The pain of the moments of rejection, uncertainty and solitude, which have forever marked their existences, is therefore not concealed, in genuine liveliness. Its manifestation, on the contrary, gives an amazing vital force to these three individuals who have become actors of their own lives. By shifting the story with an irony-free humour, the GdRA reminds us, with emotion, that the ordinary can still serve as an epic. JFP
Distribution
conceived and performed by le GdRA
writing, direction,
music Christophe Rulhes
movement and scenography Julien Cassier
actor Sébastien Barrier
artistic collaboration Mathurin Bolze
dramaturgy collaboration Jean-Michel Guy
light Adèle Grepinet
sound Pedro Theuriet
images Christophe Modica, Amic Bedel, Edmond Carrère
sound and image editing Christophe Modica
animated pictures Benoît Bonnemaison-Fitte
costumes designer Céline Sathal
Production
production le GdRA
coproduction Agora Scène conventionnée de Boulazac, Le Channel Scène nationale de Calais, Parc de la Villette-Paris, Le Carré des Jalles-Saint-Médard-en-Jalles, Culture commune Scène nationale du bassin minier du Pas-de-Calais, La Ferme du Buisson Scène nationale de Marne-la-Vallée, Les Migrateurs-associés pour les arts du cirque, Le Maillon-Strasbourg, Le CREAC, Centre de Recherche Européen des Arts du Cirque-Marseille, L'Espace Périphérique Parc de la Villette-Ville de Paris, L'Usine, lieu conventionné pour les arts de la rue-Tournefeuille
avec le soutien de Circuits Scène conventionnée d'Auch Gers, de La Grainerie-lieu de fabrique des arts du cirque-Balma, de la DRAC Midi-Pyrénées,
du Conseil Régional Midi-Pyrénées, du Conseil Général de la Haute-Garonne, de Jeunes Talents Cirque