The Pyre

Gisèle Vienne, KTL, Dennis Cooper

Gisèle Vienne - choreographer, artist, and puppeteer - has created a world marked by terror and trouble, the lively mixed with inertia, and perception trapped by hyperrealism. Her new creation, The Pyre condenses abstract, figurative, and narrative writing and pushes the intense relationship between Gisèle Vienne and the text by Dennis Cooper to its limits. Vienne and Cooper have worked together since 2004. A dancer and a boy, totally mute, evolve in a luminous installation reminiscent of contemporary urban lighting - the city, the club.

Throughout this musical and choreographic score, the narrative of a fictional author grappling with his late mother slowly appears. For their first collaboration with IRCAM, Gisèle Vienne, Peter Rehberg, and Steven O'Malley have highlighted the visual depth using electronic spatialization. The Pyre, a thousand and one writings of excess.

Premiere

Conception, Direction, Choreography and Scenography Gisèle Vienne
Musical Creation, Performance, and Live Broadcasting KTL [Stephen O'Malley et Peter Rehberg]
Text Dennis Cooper
Lighting Patrick Riou
Costumes José Enrique Ona Selfa
Video Creation Robin Kobrynski
Set Design/Leds Designgroup Professional GmbH, LED Lightdesign
Other Set Design Espace et cie

Created in collaboration with and perormed by Anja Röttgerkamp alternating with Rose Mousselet, Lounès Pezet, Léon Rubbens and Kamiel Van Looy
Artistic Collaboration Anne Mousselet
Technical Collaboration carried out by the team from the Opéra de Lille
IRCAM Computer Music Design Manuel Poletti, Thomas Goepfer
Conception of 3D Plans Rémi Brabis
Scenography Assistance Marc Le Hingrat

To Jonathan and Jean-Luc

Associate Production DACM. An Opéra de Lille, Le Parvis, Scène nationale de Tarbes Pyrénées, IRCAM/Les Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou, Comédie de Caen, Centre dramatique national de Normandie, Festival Automne en Normandie, Scène nationale d’Evreux, Bonlieu Scène nationale, La Bâtie (Geneva), Centre de développement chorégraphique (Toulouse), Centre dramatique national Orléans Loiret Centre, CCN d'Orléans, Malta Festival (Poznan), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), International Summer Festival (Hamburg), Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Frankfort), Next Festival, Eurometropolis Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai & Valenciennes/BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Festival de Otoño a Primavera (Madrid), IDEOLOGIC ORGAN/Designgroup Professional GmbH coproduction. Supported by the Festival actoral, with the participation du DICRéAM. Thanks to P.O.L. éditeur.

In the framework of the TRANSFABRIK - "TRANSFABRIK, project created by the Institut Français in cooperation with the Goethe Institute and the support of Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication and the OFAJ. This project also received the support of Total and the SACD. This project is a part of the Année franco-allemande – cinquantenaire du Traité de l'Élysée."