Georges - Extraits
Georges is animated and inanimate. Georges performs. Georges raises his voice. Georges is articulated. Georges tells “dead people stories.” And what if those dead people had a presence, a spirit, and a sense of humour ?
Mylène Benoit
Mylène Benoit,a plastic artist and choreographer, makes dance resonate like a plastic object. After winning a residency at the Villa Kujoyama, she created La Maladresse (Clumsiness) and Gikochina-sa in 2018. She is an associate artist with the Phare CCN and in a long-term residency at L'échangeur-CDCN Hauts-de-France.
Julika Mayer
Julika Mayer is a puppeteer. Her work focuses on the relationship between the body and the space, the object, and the puppet. In 2011, she won a residency at the Institut français in Berlin. She returned to Germany to be co-director of the puppeteering department at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart.
Distribution
Conception and interpretation Mylène Benoit and Julika Mayer
Production
Production Contour Progressif
Coproduction SACD, Festival d'Avignon
With the support of L'échangeur-CDCN Hauts-de-France, Internationales figuren.theater.festival Erlangen, Fitz! Zentrum für Figurentheater (Stuttgart)
With the help of the Vivat scène conventionnée danse et théâtre d'Armentières