NEWS 26/10/2016

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ALBERTINE

Proud to be selected for a residency in Villa Albertine for my  project  “Jack“. My time will be spent on studying the techno / house / electro scene in Chicago & Detroit for a month.

THE JACK THAT HOUSE BUILT 

New musical theater project with Cosmic Neman as musical director. Premiere : fall 2023.

WORK SONGS + HYOID VOICES

New musical theater project with Hyoid Voices. Premiere : spring 2023.

FOUR FOR : NEW AND IMPROVED

Four For will be presented on the 24th and 25th of November 2021, at CDN Nouveau Théâtre Montreuil (with Joël Maillard taking over Antoine Cegarra‘s role).

FOUR FOR : CANCELLATION & STREAMING

Four For will be played live, streaming, on 23 mar 2021 on the  YouTube Channel of Lieu Unique , 20h, during festival Variations.

170121 – AU COEUR DE L’OCEAN : CANCELLED.

Between Brexit and Covid, wasn’t the good year to try and write an opera with  Frédéric Blondy, Arthur Lavandier, and le Balcon,  at Opéra de Lille on 4 et 5 feb 2021. No audience this time…

121220 – COOP : REPORTED > 2022

I’ve been building with Jongleur (aka Martin Palisse, aka Le Sirque) and Ménestrel (aka Cosmic Neman aka Zombie Zombie) a month-long series of events titled “la coop” at Maison des Metallos in Paris. 28 days of crash-creation with : Joël Maillard, Emmanuelle Parrénin, Juliette Chaigneau, Jani Nuutinen, Mélissa Von Vépy, Narumi, Cosmic Néman, Martin Palisse, Petites Planètes

210920 – FOUR FOR

Four For at le Maillon for Musica Festival on 28 29 30 sep 2020.

030420 – LIVE

You can bingewatch all four seasons of my infamous video art project Bonjour Concert on april the 3d avril 2020 at 9pm and 9:30pm. It will be a  Facebook Live event with +/- live bonus commentary track.

240320 – DESERT

Perfect timing to co-write the scenario of an experimental movie by Paris-based visual artist Tony Regazzoni. See you in 2021.

160320 – OPERA

Invited by french composer Frédéric Blondy , I’ll write the libretto for the opera he’s working on. I will also stage it. Maxime Pascal will direct, Le Balcon will play. Arrangements : Arthur Lavandier. Première in Athénée (Paris) and Opéra de Lille  (2021).

111219 – INLAND

Première of noise & video performance by Annabelle Playe (+Marc Siffert +Hugo Arcier) that I staged.

090919 – 这不是戏剧性的吗

Germinal@Shanghaï tonight.

110619 – FUTURO ANTICO

Première tonight soir of a performance by Martin Palisse & Cosmic Neman that I staged. 

Photo Raynaud de Lage
120419 – GERMINAL

Germinal@Taipei tonight !

230319 – SIDERATIONS

One-shot performance for the first cosmicology congress at the very official space research center CNES. Everything turned to shit but it’s ok because I wrote a speech. (In french, sorry).

260319 – IMPOSTURE POSTHUME

Première in Arsenic (Lausanne) of Imposture Posthume, the last play of the extraordinary Joël Maillard, on which I worked as outside eyes.

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040319 – FOUR FOR / TOURNEE

If you missed the première in Phénix and Orléans, you may see it on april the 4th at Vivat (with Opéra de Lille) and 7 8th 9th of may at festival Musique Action in Nancy

220518 – FOUR FOR / EN RESIDENCE A L’OPERA DE LILLE DU 18 AU 30 JUIN

Taking shape.  (Rehearsing a very technical piece by John Cage for prepared piano préparé, 78rpm  decks and splash cymbal, pic related)

220518 – FOUR FOR / RESIDENCY @ EPSM -28 > 31/05/18

Thanks to Le Vivat, we’re back to the roots in the Maison des Artistes of EPSM, the Public Psychiatric Hospital of Armentières where I’m having a 10-year-run party, hoping for a discount in case of a forthcoming neurotic break. With Antoine Cegarra / Juliette Chaigneau / Barbara Dang / Antoine Villeret.

Four For will be created on the 26th of february 2019 @ Le Phénix (Valenciennes).


150418 – FOUR FOR / RESIDENCY @ PACT – ZOLLVEREIN 03 > 15 APRIL 2018


Deutschland Deustchland, Bleiche Mütter, as Der Plan used to sing.


020218 – FOR MORTON FELDMAN@LA GAITE LYRIQUE

Exceptional re-run of this short form at la Gaité Lyrique for four shows on 2 and 3 feb in  “biennale Arcadi  – Sors de ce corps.

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091117 – FOUR FOR / IN RESIDENCY IN OPERA DE LILLE

Very happy to work in my hometown. Pure research… We are still very intimidated by the amount of work. “Four For” is a follow-up of a small piece, “For Morton Feldman”, created in march 2017 . This larger piece « Four For », will be created in february 2019 in Le Phénix (Valenciennes).


221017 – TWO WORKSHOPS « THESE ARE THE RULES OF THIS SPACE »

During the lovely  Melbourne Festival, I gave a 2-days workshop dedicated to makers, performers and scholars.

I also gave another 5-days workshop featuring Dominique Gilliot, for the Master of Theater Practices of the ArtEZ  art school (Arnhem, Netherlands).


090517 – NEXT SEASON

16-17 :  a season of changes, devoted to the tour of Corps Diplomatique, and launching a cycle of short forms taking us until spring 2019.

17-18 : here’s our take on that season : mental apnea, reading on house arrest until I pass out, working fast but on the long run.

080517 – POSTPRODUCTION

10 days residency at BudaKunstenCentrum doing postproduction on For Morton Feldman, and opening the research on Four For, the next project.


120317 -FOR MORTON FELDMAN

Done. Twenty days of creation. Nine days on stage. One pianist. One text. We should do this some other time.

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CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE

Second season for Corps Diplomatique, welcoming Juliette Chaigneau, new actress in the cast, for our 50th gig of the show, all across France (and Norway). Worsening our carbon footprint, one show at a time.

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CORPS ALPHA

After training two groups of astronauts in PACT Zollverein (Essen) and Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, we are doing a workshop for young artists in TAP (Poitiers). We will make cosmic art warriors out of those wimps. Including : dance under self-hypnosis with Mylène Benoit, moderate geekery with Antoine Villeret and dramaturgy for non-conventional life forms.

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RECITAL

Starting a research on a freeform interpretation of the concept of recital. A work in progress will be presented at La Pop  , 11-12 mars 2017 in Paris. Ears are required. Enough said.

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NEW DEAL

Bravo Zoulou, in international flag code, means « well done ». This new company is now the production tool for my artistic work. After founding and assuming artistic co-direction of l’amicale de production for eight years, I decided to develop my projects independently. La Magnanerie, a production house, is in charge with its administration.

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