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Musical fantasy, Percussions and theatre
Musicians
Yi-Ping Yang
Emmanuel Scarpa
Comedians
Christian Scelles,
Patricia Thevenet,
Anne-Laure Sanchez
Music pieces
Sébastian Rivas, Lin-Ni Liao
James Giroudon & J.-F. Estager
Y.-P. Yang et E. Scarpa
Stage director Julio Guerreiro
Dramaturgy Anne-Laure Sanchez
Lighting Eric Marynower, Richard Gratas
Costumes Laure Garnier
Production
RIT INFINITY ass.
Partners
RIT INFINITY – GRAME
Théâtre des Célestins
Duration 60 minutes
At the beginning of this project, there is the desire from Yi-Ping Yang to get inspiration from Beckett’s Quad, video piece without words of 10mn that Beckett had made himself with 4 dancers and several percussionists. The percussion composition remained free.
Quad is the intersection of a musical piece and a scenic situation with the main theme of escape from a confined space.
A percussionist in the midst of a crisis of confidence is confronted in a working session with a very promising jazz drummer and the director of a concert hall assisted by her artistic director. This is the starting point of a situation that will continue to degenerate towards an almost surrealist chaos. The scene will visibly take the path of a certain chaos – hoardings and traces – disorganization, decomposition, recomposition. Metaphor of a world traversed in its entirety by the Japanese catastrophe of Fukushima.
Everything is legible, understandable. No need for explanations. With words that are recognizable but not easily accessible, or incomplete; just like on the street, where you don’t hear what people say but you can guess many situations. The whole, with a certain smiling complicity between the actors and the audience, a scenic atmosphere that could be reminiscent of that of Pina Baush or Jan Lauwers.
