COLLECTIVO INFAME c/o Julie Rousse et Felipe Durand 11, rue Robert Blache 75010 Paris Tel : +33 (0)6 83 99 46 96
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UN MARSUPIAL ÉGARÉ SUR LA 41
- THEME « Et on finit par comprendre, de plus en plus troublés, que l’enfance n’est ici qu’une métaphore: la métaphore d’un paradis perdu, une époque d’innocence et d’allégresse, et force nous est de constater que l’enfance ressemble rarement à cela, même chez nous, presque aussi rarement que l’adolescence ou que l’âge mûr ou que la vieillesse.»
Nancy Houston, in Enfances volées, Acte sud
Everything begun with this deep and terrible question that stroke us with reality : “Is the adults’ work a children’s game”? Is mankind nothing but a huge construction yard where all things are being built, destroyed and built again, without anyone ever knowing why? Are we only in transit in those actions that last way beyond our own existence? Yet, isn’t life a travel? Then came this other question, asking : What is our place in the succession of centuries? But what kind of trip are we talking about? Is this a one-way ticket or a perpetual round
What is the mysterious and restless development of X ?
trip? In any ways, this moving is hazardous, full of obstacles, fights between what we are and what we want to become, between childhood flying away and reality above us.
Among darken peripheries and centre of light, at the paths’ crossing, in the theatre of a spiral, all the world in a nutshell - all is nothing but a whirl of forces, a dance of atoms everything is up in the sky and down on earth at the same time. There, X has a line to stride, a passage in time and space to cross.
- SOUND Music has been composed and is interpreted on stage by Julie Rousse. Atmospheres,
- DESCRIPTION -
mood and a sonic landscape of mixed sound universes, secret places revealing a mental
This collaboration started with the deep desire to put in common our domains of creation:
state are nourishing this sound work, based on improvisation, and performed on stage so
writing, music and physical theatre. With an improvisation work and with a poetical
as to obtain a total osmosis with the actor’s play. Recorded voices and the use of sound
approach, we created a system of symbols and abstractions, and found an organic
objects interact with the performance.
language to share. We elaborated a system of sequences, contrast of moving pictures, mixing dance, music, poetry and video. On stage, both interprets weave the journey of an anonymous character, lost in the twists and turns of the Metropolis.
- MOVEMENT / ACTING In an almost bare space, the character X evolves without ever following a classical dramatic line or a psychology. This work is about physical and interpretation research : largely inspired from every day movements, it is translated on stage by a system of simple signs easy to understand.
- TEXTS Written by Felipe Durand, born from a large collect of observations, experiences and travels, the texts have been constructed in French, English and Spanish - because every language carries its own cultural richness - in the mean of seeking for an universality that is in the centre of this work. The text is a living medium, coming right out from the deep inner of the human being.
- VIDEO The video element plays it’s role of stage design and lightning. The pictures embed themselves in the empty stage space to locate the character’s mental state of mind on one hand, but also to bring an element of set or a counterpoint of view on the action.
THE NEED The need To forget names The need to find A stolen game We need On the spur of the moment To forget the streets To forget Those fucked-up faces…. Blow by blow throughout the day we bump into it The zone’s playing us a stupid tricky - dirty - trap game To the night We step We step At the end of our trip & an unspeakable violence comes through me! We’re falling Falling Falling On an uncanny area Surrounded by people Cops Strange - staring eyes looking us With this stranger laying-out on the pavement Spasmodic & gurgling Whereas we begin to feel a real pang & pain!
LAS PARAGUAS Eran paraguas abiertos, bajo un sol recalcitrante de Domingo y Septiembre. Eran sueños de paraguas abiertos como en la boca de un volcán roto. Eran juegos de niños pequeños, imberbes, apenas, crudos! Vestidos de palta madura.
LE PASSAGE
Un Chien-chef menaçant. Nous entrons dans le noir. Le clebs aboie, je l’entends derrière moi. Soudain le frémissement des ailes d’un hanneton - lourd et bruyant - remplit le lieu. Le ciel se déchire. Un chœur indénombrable de chiens hurle sur la colline, Annonçant le dehors & le dedans. Une fois à l’intérieur, toute chose change en passant d’un état à un autre. La température baisse. Le rythme cardiaque tantôt ralentit, tantôt s’accélère. Plonger dans les cavernes, dans le marécage de la passivité moderne, Je m’introduis vers l’inconnu. Des oiseaux volent par-dessus ma tête Loin, très loin, à peine,
Le battement des ailes provoque d’étranges silhouettes
on distingue une ampoule qui dégage une faible lumière blafarde.
Parmi les arbres menaçants. J’avance vers le bois
J’accélère la marche, parfois je trébuche.
Je m’arrête.
En sortant je marche sur du gravier,
Un temps. Je continue.
C’est un chemin, voie ferrée caillouteuse Ça craque sous mes pieds.
Des voix surgissent d’un haut-parleur en forme d’oreille Les arbres se tiennent debout
Un couloir. Des pupilles scrutent la route.
Avec leurs branches aux formes biscornues
Un chat à l’œil vitreux me regarde.
Et leurs feuilles On dirait des larmes de rasoirs.
Cette fois-ci, un autre portail, je passe le seuil,
Ma perception s’aiguise à mesure que j’entre dans ce lieu de mystères.
Il n’y a plus de lumière… « Du feu s’il vous plaît » J’allume des allumettes.
«Vouloir revenir et vouloir partir semble être le même mouvement.»
TECHNICAL RIDER
LUMIERES - 6 PC 2 KW - 10 PC 1 KW - 10 Profiles (short) Type Juliat 614S - 10 Profiles (long) Type Juliat 611S - 20 Pars (Type 56 and/or 64) - Control console Type Strand / or Juliat - DMX 512 pilot. - Light Stands (1m50) - Floor Light stands - Filter Holder - Colour filters (if possible) VIDEO - 2 Video beamers (lumens > 2200 lum.) SON - Mixing Board (Type Mackie) - Amplification. - 6 speakers (Type Bose 802/302) - Return on stage. PLATEAU - Dimensions (maximal) : 10m x 15m / (minimal) : 10m x 10m. - Black Dance Floor
COMMUNIQUÉ
The Collectivo Infame has been created in 2007 in order to bring on stage the creation named Un Marsupial egare sur la 41 and is composed of Felipe Durand (writer and interpret) and Julie Rousse (music and video work). The project Un Marsupial egare sur la 41 is born from the desire to put on stage the poetic digressions on solitude and isolation of human being over the centuries, the rambling of a man of our time, facing a coercive system that cannot accept him and places him on the margins of the social fabric. The trajectory of the character shows the marks of an irreparable and used routine, revealing to us how an unique individual transforms himself in a drop more in the vast ocean. Totally anonymous, he is all at the same time a part of this lively mass - in which he is immersed (and from where he can’t escape) - and of the line of time flying by (which he can’t stop). Axed on a poetic of pictures, this work displays the everyday life of a character X, the fight that lives between a man and the rules that constrain him to a permanent confusion in the guts of the city. One human most forgotten in a time fold. Far from being a documental or fictional piece, it is more like a lively collage, close to performance, in the line of Butoh and physical theatre, some have said a theatre installation.
LUIS FELIPE DURAND RIOS Actor, Director and Author. Born 01 august 1969, in Tocopilla, Chile. Lives and works in Paris.
It is a long way through theatre, contemporary dance, mime and circus arts that he has built his dramatic-poetic universe, beginning in 1989, when invited in Montevideo’s Teatro Galpon, for a movement and teatral interpretation’s workshop. Then, in 1990, under Mauricio Celedon’s direction he will be one of the pioneer of the renowned Teatro del Silencio. He then works with many great directors, such as Juan Edmundo Gonzalez, Rodrigo Marquet, Aldo Parodi and Andres Perez. On this lively experience of stage he learns and goes deeper in the learning of rigourous techniques of mime : improvisation, masks, Commedia dell’ Arte and Kathakali Dance. In 1995, he arrives in France with the French-Chilean theatre Company Aleph, where he follows workshops of singing, voice, clown and contemporary dance, with choreographers Alejandro Ramos. As well he approaches different techniques like Theatre No, improvisation, contact and martial arts. He works on different plays, in street theatre and with the Cirque Baroque.
Since 2002, he has been writing and directing, beginning with the direction of Ephemeral Cabaret in Tasmania. Then, he writes and directs his own play Paraiso Perdido, primera parte, with Colectivo Proyecto Accion teatral in Valparaiso, Chile play for which he will be invited in a festival of South-American writers. In New-York, in 2003, he gives a workshop in Local Project (Queens), directs Sketches of Life and plays in the short film Circumstances. In 2005, he plays in Imitima under the direction of Agustin Letelier, and later in the year his text Personne n’ira au Paradis is selected in the Festival of New Dramaturgy from Latino-America which is played in the world famous Théâtre de l’Opprimé, in Paris, France. In 2006, he is invited to give a workshop on Theatre and bestiality in Valparaiso, Chile, that ends with the creation of Hombres pero bestias. Since 2007, he has been working on Un Marsupial égaré sur la 41, his last text so far, as well as continuing his explorations over movement and theatre, dance classes and writing.
JULIE ROUSSE Born in 1979. Lives and works in Paris. Composer / Improviser.
Self-taught sound artist, it is in theatre she made her first steps as a noise composer in Montreal. Collector of sounds she finds in the streets of the world, this raw material is for her an infinite source of rhythms and colours, which she shapes with real time sound treatment software - real time being the essential element of her spontaneous and chaotic approach. Her main idea is to regain an organic feeling in music by means of electronic devices and improvisational acts. She has developed her very own resonant and poetic universe, with a marked taste for abstract narration, turbulence of details and inextricable disorder of
She has been a member of various duos, trios, and improvisation collectives - from
life.
Montreal to Paris - Komsomolsk, Radioantartica, and many other sporadic events. She played with renowned sound artists such as Alexandre Saint-Onge, Martin Tetrault, Diane Labrosse, Alexis O'Hara, Crys Cole and Arnaud Rivière. She now works mainly solo since her return back from Montreal to Paris, multiplying experiences of collaboration with visual artists such as Thierry Van Hasselt (Graphic novels, Belgium), Georges Rousse (Photography, France), Felicie d'Estienne d'Orves (Video, France) and dancer / choreographer Karine Denault (Quebec, Canada).
PLUS D’INFORMATIONS SUR... COLLECTIVO INFAME / UN MARSUPIAL EGARE SUR LA 41 http://collectivo.infame.free.fr FELIPE DURAND http://www.myspace.com/felipedurand JULIE ROUSSE http://julie.la.rousse.free.fr http://www.myspace.com/julielarousse www.con-v.org/cnv11.html
COLLECTIVO INFAME c/o Julie Rousse et Felipe Durand 11, rue Robert Blache 75010 Paris FRANCE Tel : +33 (0)6 83 99 46 96
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