 | Gisèle Vienne (F)
This is how you will disappear
Tickets | 33% theatre
33% beauty & horror
33% forest & fog
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Beauty. Between order, perfection and destruction, chaos. Apollo and Dionysus. Civilisation and wilderness. Love and death. The fascination of smoothness and bursting. The works of the young French director Gisèle Vienne, who featured at the herbst festival two years ago with her brilliant nightmarish solo of a serial killer ”Jerk”, always tie into this ambivalence of beauty. It is the grand, archetypical narratives that Vienne transposes and updates into our time.
The landscape in which she sets her three protagonists is defined by artificially exaggerated naturalism: real forest, real fog, a climate that floats from the stage into the auditorium – artificial nature, by and by almost symbolic, becomes an active protagonist. As in romantic paintings, it remains uncertain whether it drives the figures or, inversely, reflects their drives. The three people in search of a real experience who find themselves in this landscape are also archetypes. Archetypes of current pop culture beauty ideals: a trainer embodies authority, order, craftsmanship in the extreme. A young female athlete stands for the ambitious beauty of virtuoso perfection. A young rock star for chaos and self-destruction as a successor of Werther and Cobain. The initial harmony between humans and nature soon turns menacing. Savagery arrives, ousting civilisation and morality. It all ends in horror, nightmarish lust and death.
In this atmosphere of profound inquietude, Gisèle Vienne engages in a dialogue about our deepest longings, searching for a contemporary myth to which we might delegate our repressed desires.
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Gisèle Vienne (F) 
Produced by DACM in collaboration with Le Quartz – Scène nationale de Brest
Co-produced by steirischer herbst & Le Quartz – Scène nationale de Brest, Festival d’Avignon, Festival / Tokyo, Steep Slope Studio – Yokohama, Comédie de Caen – Centre Dramatique National de Normandie, Centre Dramatique National Orléans / Loiret / Centre, Kyoto Experiment Festival supported by Foundation & EU Japan Fest, BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival, Kampnagel Hamburg, The National Theatre (Oslo), Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté (Belfort), dans le cadre de l’accueil studio & Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble, dans le cadre de l’accueil studio
With support from Japan Foundation through the Performing Arts JAPAN program, Étant donnés, the French-American Fund for the performing arts, a program of FACE, Service Culturel de l‘Ambassade de France à Tokyo, Culturesfrance et la Ville de Grenoble, dans le cadre de la convention Culturesfrance-Ville de Grenoble, résidence-association ArtZoyd / Le Phénix – Scène nationale de Valenciennes
Co-presented by NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
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