Empire of a faun imaginary
Contemporary dance (2022)
Photo by Camilla Greenwell
Something between a prehistoric opera and an eerie ballet, Empire of a Faun Imaginary addresses feelings of meaninglessness and futility, the inadequate devices we have to navigate them, and the fantasies this generates. Yearning for transformation and new futures, Empire of a Faun Imaginary is a melancholic world in search of the miraculous, that asks: How can we go on, and how can we dream again? The piece combines vocal work, visual art, and bodies in movement to explore our tussle with a contradictory, messy, and uncertain world, where horror and beauty carry on a strange dialogue.
CREDITS
- Artistic director: Simone Mousset
- Performers: Tasha Hess-Neustadt, Lewys Holt, Eevi Kinnunen, Hannah Parsons, with Jorge Motel / Carine Baccega / Louis Chevalier
- Dramaturg: Lou Cope
- Artistic companion: Neil Callaghan
- Cultural theory consultant: Macon Holt
- Sound: Alberto Ruiz Soler
- Voice work and vocal composition: Jamie McCarthy
- Lighting: Seth Rook Williams
- Stage and Costumes: Lydia Sonderegger
- Stage and costumes collaboration: Ariane Koziolek, Anne-Sophie Raemy, Leonie Wienandts
- Puppet creation: Sophie Ruth Donaldson, Emilie Mathieu
- Wigmaker (tights): Birte Meier
- Tailoring: Cony Jegerlehner
- Producer: Vasanthi Argouin
- Production and stage manager: Bryony Byrne
- Stage manager: Alberto Ruiz Soler
- Assistant stage manager: Jorge Motel
- Company management: Cathy Modert
- Development in France: Les Indépendances
- Attachée de presse (France): Murielle Richard
- Production: Simone Mousset Projects
Index
PERFORMANCE
- SUR
- La Intérprete
- The Picnic
- Estudios Elementales
- Because I Can
- Is this is a dance?
- Written in the body
- Empire of a faun imaginary
- Unbroken
- BAL: Pride and Disappointment
- The Passion of Andrea 2
- Brouhaha
- Die or Run
- Aftermath
- Andante
- Figurines
- Two to tune
- Idiot-syncrasy
- Easy Rider
- The wishing well
- TAME GAME
- Begin to begin
- CITY