Adrien M & Claire B
Last Minute
After Blanca Li's Paris Grand Ball that thrilled audiences for two consecutive editions, a powerful new immersive experience signed by the duo Adrien M & Claire B arrives at Festival dei Due Mondi .
A symbolic and sensory journey through a hypnotic universe that revolves around to a single time-dilated minute, the one that precedes the crossing of the threshold between "before" and "after."
Thanks to a combination of music, lights and interactive projections, the audience moves through space, among the elements, to experience metamorphosis from the point of view of a particle, whether it is a drop, a burning flame, a rising smoke, a quivering ash, a vibrating earth, escaping air, a flowing rain, a rising wave.
Last Minute was born from an intimate lived experience from Claire Bardainne that led her to reasoning, together with co-creator Adrien Mondot, about the concept of reincarnation: the last-minute journey.
"One day in May 2021," Claire Bardainne recounts, "I scattered my father's ashes by the sea, not far from the bay of Mont St Michel, his childhood home. The awe-inspiring beauty of this moment, the light of this minute stretched to infinity, where my father's body extends to the world, is imprinted in me. Where the dust of his body binds with the earth, the air and the water. My father is the landscape, my father is the sea, my father is the wind, and his drawing is amplified by the trace of an airplane in the clear sky. My father has become immense, limitless, and his time no longer exists; he has become suspended in the present. I am pregnant and as life organizes itself in me to form a new body, life has left another. In a game of mirrors, one body grows while another disintegrates. A father has just left and a son is on the way. Vertigo."
Therefore, the starting point of this project is the end. The minute before we die or before we are born. An experience with a strongly ritualistic character designed to take care of our mourning, our births and our metamorphoses.
The company Adrien M & Claire B opera in the field of digital arts since 2004 with creations that merge reality and the virtual world thanks to to specially developed computer tools. The focus is on the human being and his body by resorting to a visual language based on play and fun as an expressive means of imagination.
conception, art direction, image and set design Claire Bardainne, Adrien Mondot
musical score and sound concept Olivier Mellano
computer design and development Adrien Mondot, Loïs Drouglazet
technical management Jean-Marc Lanoë
outside eye Stéfanie James
staging Loïs Drouglazet, Jean-Marc Lanoë, Yannick Moréteau
dance performance for Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto Giulia Di Lello, Maria Vittoria Tulli, Giulia Tizi, Oliva Beatrice
special thanks to Paul Brossier, Pierre-Yves Mansour
Marek Vuiton administration
assisted from Mathis Guyetand
technical direction Raphaël Guénot
production and booking Joanna Rieussec
production Margaux Fritsch, Delphine Teypaz, Juli Allard-Schaefer
produced from Adrien M & Claire B
in co-production with Les Champs Libres, Rennes; Théâtre-Sénart, Scène Nationale, Lieusaint; Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse, Paris
with the support of Fonds [SCAN] - Prefect of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region
DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: performing arts preservation plan 2020-2021
with the support of DICRéAM - Centre National du cinéma et de l'image animée
Company Adrien M & Claire B is subsidized and accredited by DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, and is supported by the City of Lyon
INFORMATION
Short sequences of strobe lights projected during the performance may disturb people with from epilepsy or photosensitivity
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DATES AND TIMES.
28 June
at 11.30, 12.30, 15.30, 16.30, 17.30, 18.30, 19.30, 20.30
29 June
at 10.30, 11.30, 12.30, 15.30, 16.30, 17.30, 18.30, 19.30, 20.30
30 June
at 10.30, 11.30, 12.30, 15.30, 16.30, 17.30, 18.30, 19.30, 20.30
July 2
at 11.30, 12.30, 15.30, 16.30, 17.30, 18.30, 19.30
July 3
at 11.30, 12.30, 15.30, 16.30, 17.30, 18.30, 19.30
July 4
at 10.30, 11.30, 12.30, 15.30, 16.30, 17.30, 18.30, 19.30
July 5
at 10.30, 11.30, 12.30, 15.30, 16.30, 17.30, 18.30, 19.30, 20.30
July 6
at 10.30, 11.30, 12.30, 15.30, 16.30, 17.30, 18.30, 19.30, 20.30
July 7
at 10.30, 11.30, 12.30, 15.30, 16.30, 17.30, 18.30, 19.30, 20.30
July 9
at 11.30, 12.30, 15.30, 16.30, 17.30, 18.30, 19.30
July 10
at 11.30, 12.30, 15.30, 16.30, 17.30, 18.30, 19.30
July 11
at 10.30, 11.30, 12.30, 15.30, 16.30, 17.30, 18.30, 19.30
July 12
at 10.30, 11.30, 12.30, 15.30, 16.30, 17.30, 18.30, 19.30, 20.30
July 13
at 10.30, 11.30, 12.30, 15.30, 16.30, 17.30, 18.30, 19.30, 20.30
July 14
at 10.30, 11.30, 12.30, 13.30, 14.30
Please be advised that dates and times may be subject to change.
See www.festivaldispoleto.com for updates.
Claire Bardainne is a French visual artist with a background in graphic design and set design, born in 1978 to Grenoble. A graduate of the Estienne School and the Arts Déco School in Paris, her research focuses on the imaginary worlds conveyed by images and graphics, especially in their capacity to construct space.
Adrien Mondot is a French multidisciplinary artist, computer scientist and juggler. Born in 1979 to Grenoble, he is interested in movement and works at the intersection of juggling art and computer innovation.
In 2011 they joined forces and founded the company Adrien M & Claire B. Together they create performances and installations in the visual and performing arts. All works are created collaboratively and the company is directed in pairs. At the core of their research is a desire to transcend the spatial boundaries of the stage and the temporal limitations of performance. They strive to to create living art: mobile, crafted, ephemeral, responsive. Today the Adrien M & Claire B company has about thirty collaborators, with several internationally touring performances, exhibitions and installations to their credit. In France, the headquarters is to Lyon and the research and creation studio is located to Crest at Villa Aphéa.
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