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Titan

Joëlle Fontannaz (CH)

Extra Time — creation
august
2017


in the frame of the program Extra Time

Titan is an animistic and athletic ceremony that focuses on ‘modern-day tragedy’. Alone on stage with her gym ball, comedian and performer Joëlle Fontannaz is harnessed with orthopaedic protections. Like a new age titan, she seeks to believe in herself and in her ability to carry all the suffering of the world in order to alleviate humanity on the brink of being swallowed up by a rumbling and oozing magma of tragic, fragmented and hazy facts. Titan might quite simply depict the birth of a quirky and inspired myth based on a Nietzschean equation: tragic = joyful.

artistic guidance: Christophe Wavelet / concept, direction, stage design: Joëlle Fontannaz / costumes, stage design: Sarah André / artistic advice: Sarah André, Piera Honegger, Adina Secretan / light: Jonas Bühler / management: Claudel Goy / production: Fair Compagnie, far° Nyon / suppport: État de Vaud, Loterie romande, Fondation Nestlé pour l'Art, Fondation Engelberts