CHARGE video excerpt from the trilogy CHUTE(S)
Chute(s)
Worldwide creation, multimedia show for ensemble, electronic and video.
Trilogy of video-operas: three pieces (Tunneling, Staub [AssonanceIII b], Charge) with seven musicians and two screens
The video is an excerpt from Charge
Performer: Valentina Moar
Hanging man: Zsolt Adam
Rigger: Zsolt Adam
Choreography assistant: Sarah Taylor
Figurants: students of the Conservatory and of the University of Trieste
Video: Paolo Pachini
Music: Raphaël Cendo
Video assistant: Margherita Pevere
Thanks to: Guardia Costiera Ausiliaria Friuli Venezia Giulia (Platform URSUS), Autorità Portuale Trieste, City Council Trieste, Company Paradiso di Sapori Trieste (supplier of beef), Company Battaglia Trieste
The Chute(s) project has been created for the ancient refectory of the abbey of Royaumont in Paris. It is about an universal archetype: the fall.
Three independent tableaux in a succession allegro-sospeso/presto-adagio show the kinetic energy of the fall that vanishes until the weightlessness. Through a visual and sound original system, Chute(s) is about to let the audience physically feel the sensation of vertigo, the sick disorientation that it brings to us, the never ending feeling of fall, the whirling horizon, the visual reference points contradicted by our sense of balance.
It is disorientation. The artists put the three screens (6 x 3 m) vertically and side by side, like lively totems where the forms fall instead of moving. The instrumental sextet is placed under the screens and projected into the room through an electronic system in real time.
The three pieces of Cendo, Matalon and Jarrel are three independent tableaux, but they give to the representation a form of a progressive disintegration.
Charge takes place at the URSUS, a seaworthy platform with a 60 m arm high. It is an industrial ruin situated into the Trieste harbour, from the Austro-Hungarian empire; it is totally rusted and its crackled surface makes it seem a huge skeleton of metallic meat.
The dancer is like an insect that is sucked in, always at the point of vertigo. She frenziedly dances some copulative fight with a black sack, a quarter of beef, a hanging man.
She is suspended into the empty space, she is half woman, half food who is swallowed up by the space and by the steel.
Chute(s) concept and video: Paolo Pachini
Music: Martin Matalon (Tunneling), Michaël Jarrel (Staub [Assonance III b]), Raphaël Cendo (Charge)
Sound concept: Christophe Lebreton (GRAME), with Ensemble musikFabrik (Marco Blaauw-trumpet, Helen Bledsoe–flute, Christine Chapman-horn, Carl Rosman-clarinet, Dirk Rothbrust-percussion, Michael Tiepold-double bass, Dirk Wietheger-cello)
Creation realized at the studios GRAME (Lyon), CIRM (Nice), and La Muse en circuit (Alfortville), national centres of music creation
Music programming: Christophe Lebreton
Sound designer: Max Bruckert, Julien Aléonard, Nicolas Deflache
Production: Fondation Royaumont, Paris ; GRAME, Centre national de création musicale, Lyon ; Voix Nouvelles
Coproduction: national centres of musical creation CIRM (Nice), La Muse en circuit (Alfortville), Césaré (Reims), GMEA (Albi); festival Why Note Dijon; Musique Inventives Annecy; L’Arsenal Metz en scène; festival Ars Musica Bruxelles; ensemble MusikFabrik (Köln); le Manège/CECN; Ensemble Musique Nouvelles (Mons, Belgique); Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication-Délégation au développement et aux affaires internationales, France
Supported by: Fondation Pro Helvetia and Istituto italiano di cultura
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