GISÈLE VIENNE
Crowd
Tickets available for purchase on-site before each performance (subject to availability).
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Duration
1h30
An intense immersion in a rave party where movement and fiction vibrate against one another, Crowd is both an aesthetic shock and an experiencing of time, a jubilant, hypnotic emotional rollercoaster.
A classic of choreographer Gisèle Vienne’s repertoire since its creation in 2017, Crowd features fifteen dancers, each with their own character and history, on a stage that has been transformed into a dusty wasteland littered with the remains of a party in full swing. Bodies caught up in the twists and turns of this rave party experiment with different physical and emotional states, to the soundtrack that embraces the history of electronic music, with pride of place given to Detroit techno and the collective Underground Resistance. Crowd is a sensory experience in which our relationship to time is modified by the performers’ movements; slow motion, jerks, stops, and loops create powerful images and constantly recompose the arrangement of bodies, timeframes, and fictions. In the choreographer’s vision of the party as an alternative space in which to dance, experiment, meet, and live more intensely, the audience itself plays a decisive role in how it sees and experiences the piece.
The sound volume of this show is high.
Dates
With the Chaillot National Dance Theatre
Casting / Production credits
Concept, choreography, scenography, and dramaturgy Gisèle Vienne Character subtexts Dennis Cooper Lighting Patrick Riou Performers Philip Berlin, Marine Chesnais, Sylvain Decloitre, Sophie Demeyer, Vincent Dupuy, Massimo Fusco, Rehin Hollant, Oskar Landström, Theo Livesey, Katia Petrowick, Linn Ragnarsson, Jonathan Schatz, and Henrietta Wallberg (alternating with Lucas Bassereau, Morgane Bonis, Nuria Guiu Sagarra, Maeva Lassere, Maya Masse Nach, and Malick Cissé) Music Underground Resistance, KTL, Vapour Space, DJ Rolando, Drexciya, The Martian, Choice, Jeff Mills, Peter Rehberg, Manuel Göttsching, Sun Electric, and Global Communication Music editing and selection Peter Rehberg and Gisèle Vienne Sound diffusion design Stephen O’Malley Sound engineer Adrien Michel Costumes Gisèle Vienne in collaboration with Camille Queval and the performers
Production DACM / Compagnie Gisèle Vienne
Coproduction Nanterre-Amandiers, centre dramatique national, Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne, Wiener Festwochen, Manège, scène nationale – Reims, Théâtre national de Bretagne – Centre Européen Théâtral et Chorégraphique, Centre Dramatique National Orléans/Loiret/Centre, La Filature, Scène nationale – Mulhouse, BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen
With the support of CCN2 – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, CND Centre national de la danse
The Compagnie Gisèle Vienne is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and Communication – DRAC Grand Est, the Région Grand Est and the City of Strasbourg.
The company receives regular support from the Institut Français for its tours abroad.
Gisèle Vienne is an associate artist of Chaillot – théâtre national de la danse, the MC2 : Grenoble, the Volcan – Scène nationale du Havre and the Théâtre National de Bretagne à Rennes – Centre Européen Théâtral et Chorégraphique.
Practical information
Access
Grande Halle
Metro
Line 5 - Porte de Pantin station
Tramway
Line 3b - Porte de Pantin station
Bus
Bus 75, 151 - Porte de Pantin stop
Parking
Q-Park
Philharmonie
Q-Park
Cité de la Musique - La Villette
Q-Park
Cité de la Musique - Conservatoire
Parking
Cité des Sciences
Accessibility
- This venue is accessible to people with reduced mobility (PRM). Please contact 01 40 03 75 75.
- Vibrating vests available.
Useful information
- The sound volume of this show is high.
- Light food and refreshments available on-site before the show in the Grande Halle.
- Several dining options available in the park before or after the show, discover them HERE.
In the press
« Une voie contemporaine inédite sur les traces des raves des années 1990 »
Le Monde« Fenêtre ouverte sur des communautés qui font de la transe dansée leur raison d’être, ce spectacle recèle des arrêts sur image splendides. »
Télérama« Une ode à la jeunesse et à l’ivresse, une expérience émotionnelle profondément euphorique et mélancolique, un bel instant suspendu. »
Sceneweb« "Crowd" est une des pièces chorégraphiques les plus subtiles créées ces dernières années. »
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