ARCHIVES OF FEELINGS

At the end of a wedding celebration, eight characters remain. They are the remnants, who spontaneously form a family – people who, in all their fragility, look after one another, or at least try to. We enter a kind of portrait gallery, where we discover a story within each of them. Snapshots that also reflect the present moment: the impact that increasingly authoritarian forms of government have on our psychological state. What is reality, and who in society defines it? Through these eight characters and what moves them – quite literally their physical movement – a struggle for a dignified life for everyone unfolds.

The new production by interdisciplinary artist Gisèle Vienne combines choreography and theatre, and results from a long-term investigation into power relations and how they are constructed. For the first time, Gisèle Vienne collaborates with award-winning writer Marie NDiaye, whose writing intertwines psychological observation with dreamlike elements.

PRODUKTION: DACM / Compagnie Gisèle Vienne
KOPRODUKTION: Schauspielhaus Zürich / Nuits de Fourvière / Berliner Festspiele / Le Volcan – Scène nationale du Havre / MC2 : Grenoble – Scène nationale / Wiener Festwochen / Festival d’Automne à Paris / Théâtre populaire romand, La Chaux­de­Fonds, Centre neuchâtelois des arts vivants / MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine­Saint­Denis / Théâtre National de Bretagne – Centre Européen Théâtral et Chorégraphique / Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne / Triennale Milano Teatro / Tandem – Scène nationale de Douai / La Filature, Scène nationale de Mulhouse / Internationales Sommerfestival, Kampnagel, Hamburg / BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen / deSingel, Antwerpen
DANK AN: Théâtre national de Strasbourg