Length / Year: | 60’, 2022 (Italian premiere) |
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By: | Noémie Goudal, Maëlle Poésy |
Concept, direction: | Noémie Goudal, Maëlle Poésy |
Suspension writing: | Chloé Moglia |
With: | Mathilde Van Volsem |
Original music: | Chloé Thévenin |
Stage design: | Hélène Jourdan |
Lighting: | Mathilde Chamoux |
Costumes: | Camille Vallat |
Stage manager: | Julien Poupon |
Sound operator: | Samuel Babouillard |
Video and lighting operator: | Pierre Mallaisé |
Assistants: | Clara Labrousse and Pauline Thoër |
Production administrator: | Miléna Noirot; assisted by Adèle Jaffredo, Marie Bloquel-Perrat |
Film credits: | |
Made by: | Noémie Goudal, Maëlle Poésy; assisted by Claude Guillouard |
Script: | Mylène Mostini |
Director of photography: | Julien Malichier |
Digital operator, optical calculator: | Alexis Allemand |
Camera assistant: | Julien Saez |
Special effects: | Léo Leroyer |
Electrician: | Adrien Chata; assisted by Telma Langui |
Head stage decorator: | Thierry Jaulin; assisted by Eleonore Sense and Delphine Bachelard |
Props: | Thomas Piffaut |
Stage management: | Victoria Lanoy |
Riggers: | Olivier Georges, Guillaume Morandeau and Augustin De Vaumas |
Post-production: | Méchant |
Colour grading: | Serge Antony |
Production: | Clara Labrousse and Claude Guillouard; assisted by Aménophis Boum Mak and Pauline Thoër; trainee: Salomé Fau |
Appearances: | Alexis Allemand, Aménophis Boum Make, Georges Olivier, Claude Guillouard, Maëlle Poésy, Noémie Goudal, Thomas Piffaut, Graciela Walinsky |
A performance-installation conceived and devised by: | Noémie Goudal and Maëlle Poésy |
Based on the work: | ‘Post Atlantica’ by Noémie Goudal |
In collaboration with: | Comune di Venezia / Cultura Venezia / Teatro del Parco |
This project: | came to fruition with the complicity of Christoph Wiesner and Les Rencontres d’Arle |
Production: | Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne, CDN |
Film production and staging: | Mondes nouveaux, a programme initiated by the French government as part of the Culture de France Relance, a scheme providing assistance in the conception and implementation of artistic projects |
Co-production: | Compagnie Crossroad; Atelier Noémie Goudal; Espace des Arts, Scène nationale de Chalon-sur-Saône; L’Azimut - Pôle National Cirque en Île-de-France - Antony/Châtenay- Malabry |
With support from: | Rhizome – Chloé Moglia, FONPEPS |
Note: | ANIMA was created at the 76th edition of the Festival d’Avignon with the support of the Kering Foundation and Les Rencontres d’Arle |
Noémie Goudal / Maëlle Poésy - Anima
Description
Feeling the slow pace of change; doing it through the history of our planet. The performance Anima, the outcome of the collaboration between the director, author and actress Maëlle Poésy and the artist Noémie Goudal, reflects upon our planet and the changes that are disrupting it. Inspired by Post-Atlantica, the installation by Noémie Goudal, Anima deals with paleo-climatology, the discipline that studies the climate of Antiquity, which for many years has been the focus of Goudal’s research and experimentation, as she seeks in her artistic practice to create illusionistic installations within natural landscapes. Anima – explains the French artist – “looks to the history of Sub-Saharan Africa and the desert that was once a swamp”. But the performance, which brings together the visual arts, photography, music, cinema and the performing arts, is not just an outcry against the climate crisis, but also a reflection about time. As Noémie Goudal writes: “The time of the human race is but a mere minute compared to the time of the planet. During our life on Earth, we are effectively incapable of perceiving its movements; our relationship with the planet is one of stability, symbolised by clear limits and predetermined boundaries. Anima is an attempt to change our point of view and perceive the world as it is intrinsically, by definition, in perpetual motion”. On the stage, Chloé Mogia spins suspended to scaffolding against the background of landscapes that are slowly morphing, in which a plurality of timeframes converge: “a past that nourishes the present which is itself part of the future”. The spectator is immersed in a naturalistic atmosphere, in which video, photography, music and physicality coexist in dilated, slow-motion time as a result of the continuous transformation of space. The performance is accompanied by the electronic sound of Chloé Thévenin.
Often invited to the Festival d’Avignon and abroad – from the Lincoln Center to the Festival TransAmériques – in 2021 Maëlle Poésy (Val-de-Marne, 1984) staged 7 minutes by Stefano Massini with the actors of the Comédie Française at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier. She is currently the director of the Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne.
The author of illusionistic installations centred on the landscape and documented in film and photography, Noémie Goudal, who was born in 1984 and studied at the Royal College of Art in London, and is now based in Paris, investigates the intersection between ecology and anthropology.
A dancer, performer, acrobat and circus artist, Chloé Moglia (Perpignan, 1978) founded the Le Rhizome company in 2009, with which she develops her research into aerial acrobatics, defying the laws of physics in a blend of strength and fragility.
Chloé Thévenin, known to the public as Chloé, is a composer, producer and electronic music DJ, who works in the fields of cinema and theatre.