Theatre
Gisèle Vienne
Kindertotenlieder
6 - 9 Oct 2021
The event is over
A strange procession unfolds in a thick fog in a snow-covered landscape. Bogged down in this disconcerting space, inanimate characters seem to be witnessing something: a concert, a burial or an ancestral pagan rite?
On stage the musicians of the KTL experimental group (Stephen O’Malley and Peter Rehberg) mingle with hooded adolescents. A ghostly voice rises from their midst. Through the poetic dialogues penned by Dennis Cooper and the sensitive motions of the performers, the public of Kindertotenlieder reconstitutes the story of this troubled soul who comes to haunt another adolescent, a rapist and an assassin.
With this original re-creation, Franco-Austrian director Gisèle Vienne blurs the frontiers between alternative and traditional culture, between reality and fantasy.
With the Paris Autumn Festival in the context of the portrait devoted to Gisèle Vienne
Re-creation on 17 and 18 June 2021, at the Holland Festival, Amsterdam.
On tour: from 6 to 9 October 2021 at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Concept: Gisèle Vienne
Written and dramatised by: Dennis Cooper
Original live music: KTL (Stephen O’Malley & Peter Rehberg) and The Sinking Belle (Dead Sheep) by Sunn O))) & Boris (edited by KTL)
Lighting: Patrick Riou
Robot design: Alexandre Vienne
Doll design: Gisèle Vienne
Dolls created by: Raphaël Rubbens, Dorothéa Vienne-Pollak, Gisèle Vienne, assisted by Manuel Majastre
Wood masks made by: Max Kössler
Make-up: Rebecca Flores
Texts translated from American English by Laurence Viallet
Performed by Sylvain Decloitre, Vincent Dupuy, Theo Livesey, Katia Petrowick and Jonathan Schatz
Performers when created: Jonathan Capdevielle, Margret Sara Gudjonsdottir, Elie Hay, Guillaume Marie and Anja Röttgerkamp
General manager: Richard Pierre
Lighting manager: Samuel Dosière
Sound manager: Adrien Michel
Assistant: Anja Rottgerkamp
Special thanks to Christophe Le Bris, Christophe Tocanier, Kenan Trevien, Arnaud Lavisse and David Jourdain
Thanks to Hortense Archambault and the whole team at the MC93
Production and tours: Alma Office: Anne-Lise Gobin, Alix Sarrade, Camille Queval & Andrea Kerr
Administration: Étienne Hunsinger & Giovanna Rua
Production: DACM
Coproduction: Le Quartz, Scène Nationale in Brest, Les Subsistances 2007, Lyon,
The Franche-Comté National Choreography Centre in Belfort, in the framework of the studio hosting, National Centre for Contemporary Dance in Angers
With the support of the Rhône-Alpes DRAC (Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs) / Ministry for Culture, the Rhône-Alpes region, the Conseil Général for the Isère , the city of Grenoble, the Dicream / Ministry for Culture, and Étant Donnés, the French-American fund for the performing arts, a program of Face
With the help of the National Choreography Centre in Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon and Point éphémère in Paris
With the support of the National Dance Centre and the MC93 for the re-creation in 2021.
DACM / Compagnie Gisèle Vienne is registered with the Ministry for Culture, Grand Est DRAC, the Grand Est region and the city of Strasbourg.
The company receives the regular support of the Institut Français for its tours outside France.
Gisèle Vienne is an associate artist of the National Dance Centre and the Théâtre National de Bretagne
When
8:30pm - 10pm
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