Seismic

Marie Gourdain & Felix Baumann 

Matière Mobile (FR) / Von B bis Z (DE) / tYhle (CZ) 

Premier: 22.11.2022

Audience: 8+ and all family

Length:  50 m

Performance for indoor and outdoor spaces 

SEISMIC is a dance and physical theatre production that places the scenographic construction at its conceptual heart. A piece for four international performers created by choreographer Marie Gourdain (FR) and dance and theatre maker Felix Baumann (DE). The action takes place on an unstable and discontinuous platform, which may tip, shake or break in response to the movements of the protagonists. It constitutes the extremely uncertain base whereupon the characters display themselves, alone, in pairs, or as a group – thereby risking life and limb. The figures encounter challenges in relation to each other, tirelessly navigating the instability surrounding them, altering behaviors, provoking risks, endangering balance and control, threatening to lose the ground under their feet. Situations transform from the ordinary to the absurd, from the banal to the metaphorical. 

Through dance, humor and scenographic installation SEISMIC tells about a relationship of mutual dependence, in which each body is exposed to the mechanics of the space and of the other bodies - a permanent transformation of things in a circular and interdependent sense, a power relationship whose origins are blurred in the mix of events. 

Credits

CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY and ARTISTIC DIRECTION: Marie Gourdain (FR/CZ), Felix Baumann (DE)


PERFORMED BY: Felix Baumann (DE), Till Jenewein (DE), Sean Henderson (USA), Halka Trešňáková (CZ)


STAGE and VISUAL DESIGN: Jan Tomšů (CZ), in collaboration with Marie Gourdain (FR/CZ), Felix Baumann (DE)

DRAMATURGICAL CONSULTANT: Jakub Režný (CZ)

LIGHT DESIGN: Zuzana Režná (CZ)


MUSIC DESIGN: Thibault Cohade (FR)


MUSIC ASSISTANT: Lukáš Palán (CZ)

COSTUME DESIGN: Magdalena Vrábová (CZ)

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