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Paysages impossibles

Joëlle Fontannaz, Sébastien Grosset
Camille Mermet (CH)

août
2019

duration : 65'

Paysages impossibles is based on a simple idea: conjuring up imaginary spaces on an empty stage simply through the power of description. On either side of a blank stage, two actresses perform a text like one would a musical piece, interweaving descriptions of real places with personal sensations. While the performers grapple with a particularly demanding textual score, their interwoven speeches sometimes complete and sometimes contradict each other, in such a way that each audience member mentally constructs fictional landscapes that no scenography could ever realise.

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conception: Joëlle Fontannaz, Camille Mermet, Sébastien Grosset / text: Sébastien Grosset / performance: Joëlle Fontannaz, Camille Mermet / sound: Raphaël Raccuia / light advise: Gaël Chapuis / photography: Maylène Mathée / administration, diffusion: Maylène Mathée / coproduction: Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Centre de culture ABC La Chaux-de-Fonds, OSTINATO / support: Ville de Lausanne, Loterie Romande, Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art, Fondation Ernst Göhner, Fondation suisse des artistes interprètes SIS, Fondation Jan Michalski