TOUT VA BIEN
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Choreography, direction Alain Buffard
Assistant Fanny de Chaillé
Interpretation Lorenzo de Angelis, Armelle Dousset, Hanna Hedman, Jean-Claude Nelson, Olivier Normand, Tamar Shelef, Betty Tchomanga, Lise Vermot.
Musical adaptation, Accordion Armelle Dousset
Lighting Yves Godin
Light engineer Thalie Lurault
Costumes Misa Ishibashi
Technical direction Christophe Poux
Photos Marc Domage
Production : PI:ES
Co-production : Théâtre de Nîmes, Festival Montpellier danse 2010, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Ménagerie de Verre - Paris, Centre chorégraphique national de Caen/Basse Normandie.
This piece was created in part during a residency at the Theatre de Nimes
With the support of Centre national de danse contemporaine d’Angers, and the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique de Toulouse/Midi-Pyrénées.
With the support of Adami
Alain Buffard is an associated artist with the Théâtre de Nîmes for both 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 seasons.
PI:ES receives the support of the DRAC Ile-de-France, Ministère de la Culture and is supported by Culturesfrance for its overseas tours.
Mad dashes around, chanted, crazed tempi, beaten and scratched, uniformly cut costumes, oversized caps. A nod to dance, to war: military marching, absurd over the top training, corny tunes on the accordion, obsessive chanting, even a few dance steps – these will be the elements comprising Tout va bien. Going for basic training – or taking a class.
We’ll thumb our noses at the war machines, our mic stands will be transformed into unlikely rifles, our theatrical machines will work entirely in reverse. The recruits will not refrain from grotesque retorts in the expressionist vein: upon receiving arbitrary commands, they will respond with interchangeable strategies, and guttural warnings will trigger deployment of full linguistic weaponry. It’ll be inwardly directed discipline over blind inspection.
After creating Dispositifs 3.1 (2001), I am working again with the themes of alienation and submissiveness, which comprise the standardizing structures of education, in order to see how the subjects emancipate themselves, and to that end I am considering tactics and maneuvers to jam up the machines.
The music and songs will, I hope, drown out the authorities and powers‐that‐be. It is the jubilation of playful little guerrillas.
Alain Buffard - Mai 2010