HABEMUS NAUFRAGIUM
creation 2024
In their urgent need to adapt to an environment in constant transformation, two beings fight for survival, to the point of mutating into improbable forms and adopting chimeric identities.
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Sometimes fused together, bodies tangled, sometimes with an urgent need to create distance, they seek to return to their own animality.
Audacious, senseless, just like the challenges confronting them, they try... take their chances... fail... Their evolutionary journey suggests that unity and mutual support are the key to their survival.
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Tearing off layer upon layer of the thick shells that a frenetic society has grafted onto them, their bodies unite and metamorphose into a mysterious sea creature.
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Calm returns, and with long, slender, hypnotic movements, the creature moves forward in perfect harmony with the noisy ocean that surrounds it... but for how long? Haven't we learned to beware of mirages?
Performed by the dancers Anna-Maria Besnier Bayon and Silvia Pezzarossi, Habemus Naufragium is a contemporary dance duet depicting the perpetual metamorphosis and vital mutual support required by two beings fighting for survival.
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Direction and choreography: Silvia Pezzarossi
Creation and performance: Silvia Pezzarossi avec la collaboration de Anna-Maria Besnier Bayon
Artistic support and dramaturgy: Simon Gillard
Acting direction and assistance with dramaturgy : Maialen Arrano
Light design: Jean Jacques Deneumoustier
Sound design: Raphael Venin et Clément Braive
Costumes: Marta Lodoli et Charlotte Javierre
Lighting and sound engineer: Leo Deneve
Executive production: Plastique Palace Théâtre
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Coproductions : Théâtre Les Brigittines (Bruxelles), Le Delta (Namur)
With the support of: Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles (Service de la danse), Wallonie Bruxelles International, WBTD, Charleroi Danse-centre chorégraphique de Wallonie Bruxelles, Iles asbl
Residency programmes:
Charleroi Danse-Centre Chorégraphique de Wallonie Bruxelles, Théâtre Les Brigittines, Théâtre Marni, Le Delta à Namur, UP-Circus & Performing Arts, CC Wolubilis, CC les Riches Claires, Studio Étangs Noir (RUDA Ayelen Parolin), Le Bamp, le partenaire grec Akropoditi dance centre (Syros), le partenaires français le 783 (Nantes) et la Briqueterie/CDCN Val de Marne.
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Thanks to: Judith Spronck, Charlotte Javierre, Adele Bourret, Ayelen Parolin, Micha Goldberg, Nicholas Pezzarossi, Debora Woinke, Rocio Alvarez.
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