A theatre director devoted, particularly, to researching into space presents the choreographic portrait of a flamenco dancer, or bailaora. The result is a meditation on art and the relationship between our inner being and the outside world.
At the 2013 Grec Festival, Aurélien Bory presented Plexus, a portrait in dance of the Japanese ballerina Kaori Ito. However, there was a forerunner to that show, the first choreographic portrait to feature on the festival programme. We refer to the piece by Stéphanie Fuster, a young French artist who, taking all and sundry by surprise, decided to take a leap into the unknown and move to the south of Spain to study flamenco for eight years with the bailaor Israel Galván. In this way she, too, became a bailaora. The title of this new production reflects the question about a radical change, one that can be as fascinating as it is terrifying. Questcequetudeviens? started to take shape when Fuster returned to France and asked Bory to create a show for her. Devoted to researching into space in her stage productions and a stranger to the world of flamenco, Bory at first refused. However, the idea gradually seduced her until she realised that she wanted to create the portrait of the ballerina, not so much recounting her life as exploring the contrast between her inner world, dedicated to solitary, repetitive practice of flamenco technique, and an external reality in which she faced all kinds of obstacles. In the three parts that form Questcequetudeviens?, these obstacles take the form of a bulky dress that the dancer must carry, a limited space that restricts her movement, and water, which creates difficulties but also brings a new dimension to the movements of the bailaora. All this, accompanied by live music performed by the cantaor Alberto García and José Sánchez on guitar, helping to create a show whose theme is not so much flamenco as art and life.
Production: Compagnie 111 – Aurélien Bory.
Coproduction and residencies: Festival Mira!, TnBA Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitane (Bordeaux) and Théâtre Vidy (Lausanne).
In cooperation with: Théâtre Garonne scène européenne Toulouse, Scène nationale - Cavaillon, La Fabrica Flamenca (Toulouse) and La Grainerie Fabrique des arts du cirque et de l’itinérance (Balma).
Compagnie 111 - Aurélien Bory has the support of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs of Midi-Pyrénées, the Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées region, the City of Toulouse and the Departamental Council of Haute-Garonne.
Aurélien Bory is an associate artist of Grand T - Théâtre Loire-Atlantique (Nantes), a guest artist at TNT Théâtre National de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (Toulouse) and is supported by the Théâtre de l’Archipel scène nationale of Perpignan.
Concepció, escenografia i direcció: Aurélien Bory ; Coreografia i interpretació: Stéphanie Fuster; Composició musical: José Sánchez; Interpretació musical: José Sanchez (guitarra) i Alberto García (cantaor); Realització d'escenografia: Pierre Dequivre i Arnaud Lucas; Disseny de vestuari: Sylvie Marcucci; Disseny d'il·luminació: Arno Veyrat; Disseny de so / concepció sonora: Stéphane Ley; Direcció tècnica: Arno Veyrat; So: Sylvain Lafourcade; Il·luminació: François Dareys; Ajudant de direcció: Sylvie Marcucci ; Direcció de producció: Florence Meurisse; Ajudant de producció: Marie Reculon; Comunicació i relacions públiques: Sarah Poirot; Gestió internacional: Barbara Suthoff; Premsa: Dorothée Duplan i Flore Guiraud, amb l'assistència d'Eva Dias (Plan Bey);
