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FESTIVAL D'AVIGNON IN 2022
LONDON INTERNATIONAL MIME FESTIVAL 2023
FESTIVAL ANTIGEL 2024
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From a wedding anniversary party to a hospital room, from a virtual reality experience to a family reunion in a café, FLESH is a visual and non-verbal show, a contemporary fable that plunges the spectator into the thickness of our flesh.
Concept and direction Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola Scenario Sophie Linsmaux, Aurelio Mergola and Thomas van Zuylen Interpretation Muriel Legrand, Sophie Linsmaux, Aurelio Mergola, Jonas Wertz Staging and movement Sophie Leso Scenography Aurélie Deloche Assistants scenography Rudi Bovy, Sophie Hazebrouck Intern scenography Farouk Adoulaye Accessories Noémie Vanheste Costume design Camille Collin Seamstress Cinzia Derom Technical direction Nicolas Olivier Light design Guillaume Toussaint-Fromentin Sound design Éric Ronsse Stage manager Rudy Bovy / Charlotte Persoons Masks and puppets Joachim Jannin Voice-over Stéphane Pirard General assistant Sophie Jallet Administration Marion Couturier Development, communication and distribution BLOOM Project
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Production Still Life Company Co-production Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Cultural Center of Huy,Kinneksbond/Mamer Cultural Centre, Coop asbl and Shelter Prod Delegate production Théâtre Les Tanneurs Theater With help of Ministère de la fédération Walloni-Bruxelles - Service du Théâtre, Festival de Liège and the 140 Supported by Theatre National Wallonie-Brussels, Taxshelter.be, ING, the Tax-shelter of the Belgian federal government, Wallonie-Bruxelles International and WBTD With the participation of the Performing Arts Center
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This show was created in February 2022 at Théâtre les Tanneurs.
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Contact distribution non-French-speaking countries - Aurora Nova / Carolina Ortega - carolina@auroranova.org
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The Still Life company is associated artist with the Theatre Les Tanneurs.
With FLESH, composed of four short stories for four actor·ress·e·s, Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola map human flesh, from every angle.
FLESH brings into play the bruised, raw flesh, but also tender and above all in eternal need of the other. Rooted in his body for better or for worse, the human being is indistinguishable from his flesh, incarnation of his being in the world. However, today, this anchoring tends to disappear.
From a wedding anniversary party to a hospital room, from a virtual reality experience to a family reunion in a café, FLESH is a visual and non-verbal show, a contemporary fable that plunges the spectator into the thickness of our flesh. With humor and strangeness, the STILL Life company stirs us up in an invigorating way : from our bruised flesh to our living flesh, there is only one step.
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Through four wordless stories, we revel in a grand split between life and death. In each, the two creators put bodies to the test of reality, addressing life and death with the same biting irony.
Patrick Sourd | Les Inrockuptibles