Blossom – Sandrine Lescourant
In cooperation with l’Aire Libre
Blossom is a participatory performance at the crossroads of theatre, concert and choir: the dancers, who are also singers or musicians, share the stage with a group of amateurs brought together beforehand with social and medical organisations.
Together, they invite the audience to step into something, without anything being imposed: walking slowly, inhabiting the silences, letting themselves be carried by the music, or letting the body respond if it feels like it. No technique is required. The piece makes no distinction between bodies that know and bodies that are searching. What matters is the shared vitality, that surge that happens when voices come together or feet find the same ground.
Coloured by the multiple inspirations and origins of the performers, the musical composition (gospel, soul, hip hop, afro, house music) calls towards elsewhere and stands as a bridge between practices born in communities that made collective presence a space of freedom.
Sandrine Lescourant, also known as Mufasa, comes from hip hop battles. Her approach explores social bonds and how they’re represented through the body and the voice. Blossom is a generous, open form of that exploration.
Choreography: Sandrine Lescourant and the dancers · Performers and musicians: Najoi Bel Hadj, Sophie Palmer, Joël Brown or Jeremie Tshiala, Charlyngan Mathurine aka Cjm’s, Abraham Diallo · Collective musical composition under the direction of Abraham Diallo · Sound design: Vincent Hoppe · Lighting and set design: Esteban Loirat
Production: Cie Kilaï
With the patronage of the Caisse des Dépôts et des Consignations
Coproduction: Théâtre Louis Aragon, Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national – Art et création – Danse à Tremblay-en-France · Ballet National de Marseille · Réseau Traverses: a network of touring and creation support venues for live performance in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region · Théâtre de Grasse · le CENTQUATRE – Paris
With the support and residency hosting of the Mairie d’Orsay · Théâtre Louis Aragon, Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national – Art et création – Danse à Tremblay-en-France · Théâtre de Grasse (residency hosting, project with Grasse psychiatric hospital) · Le Ballet National de Marseille · Les Hivernales – CDCN d’Avignon · le Sémaphore – Port-de-Bouc.
With the support of the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles d’Île-de-France (decentralised aid and Culture-Santé scheme), Garde Robe, the support of the Seine-Saint-Denis department, and the Essonne department as part of its territorial residency scheme.
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