Du ciel à la terre, des nouvelles du Cosmos

1st reading: Meteorites by Aurélien Barrau

Météorites by Aurélien Barrau is published by Michel Lafon.

A dazzling text by the astrophysicist known for his commitment to ecology, but for whom literature and poetry are essential.

Aurélien Barrau, born in 1973, is an astrophysicist specialising in the physics of astroparticles, particles in the interstellar medium, and black holes. He works for the Laboratoire de physique subatomique et de cosmologie (LPSC) at the CNRS in Grenoble. He is also Professor at the University of Grenoble Alpes (UGA). Author of numerous publications, he is very committed to ecological issues, the protection of the environment and animal life, and to sustainable development.

2nd reading: Des nouvelles de l’invisible

Sur la piste animale is published by Actes Sud

Clara Hédouin sets off on Baptiste Morizot's Sur la piste animale and goes on an expedition to unexplored lands: our relationship with living beings and our inner animalities.

A set of tracks. A track in the clay soil of a river. And yet it's all there: the joy of wolves who find each other, the patience of a panther on the lookout, the intelligence of a bear that erases its own tracks, and our own desire to search. Clara Hédouin sets off on Baptiste Morizot's animal trail and goes on an expedition to unexplored lands: our relationship with living beings and our inner animalities.

Clara Hédouin joined the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 2008, where she directed her first plays. She then trained as an actress at the Studio-Théâtre d'Asnières, then at the École du Jeu. For eight years, she created and toured throughout France with the Collectif 49701 a series of six shows, based on the adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers, outside the theatre. She continues her approach with Que ma Joie demeure by combining her love for literature, her sense of the epic, and her desire to invent another encounter between the spectator and the theatre, outside the black box.

Baptiste Morizot is a writer and lecturer in philosophy at the University of Aix-Marseille. His work on the relationship between humans and the living world is based on fieldwork, particularly tracking wildlife. He is the author of Les Diplomates. Cohabiter avec les loups sur une autre carte du vivant (2016) and, published by Actes Sud in the "Mondes sauvages" collection, Sur la piste animale (2018) and Manières d'être vivant (2020).

1st reading:

Polyphonic reading by the student actors of Studio 7, 7th promotion of the École du Nord: Yassim Aït Abdelmalek, Félix Back, Clément Bigot, Sam Chemoul, Chloé Monteiro, Miya Péchillon 
Artistic advisor Guillaume Poix
Director Cédric Aussir
Director assistant Justine Dibling
Music Lucas Lelièvre

2nd reading:

Adapted by Clara Hédouin and Éric Didry
With Clara Hédouin
Based on the stage direction of Éric Didry
Director Cédric Aussir
Assistant director Justine Dibling
Music Lucas Lelièvre