slowly, slowly… until the sun comes up
France 2022
Chorégraphie, concept, texte, mise en scène Ivana Müller
en collaboration avec les interprètes Julien Gallée-Ferré, Clémence Galliard, Julien Lacroix
scénographie en collaboration avec Alix Boillot
création sonore Olivier Brichet
création lumières Fanny Lacour & Olivier Brichet régie générale Fanny Lacour collaboration artistique et recherche Sarah van Lamsweerde, Jonas Rutgeerts, Olivia Lucidarme et Nefeli Gioti
production, administration ORLA (Capucine Goin, François Maurisse)
diffusion, prod. KUMQUAT | performing arts (Gerco de Vroeg, Laurence Larcher) coproduction Le Pacifique, CDCN, Grenoble / La Place de la Danse, CDCN, Toulouse / CNDC (Centre national de danse contemporaine), Angers / Atelier de Paris, CDCN, Paris / Festival d’Automne, Paris / Mille Plateaux, CCN, La Rochelle / Ménagerie de verre, Paris
soutiens Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (FR)
Dreams, like theater, or other arts, are forms of experimentation. They are environments that expose us to ideas and sensations that are impossible in the real world, offering us new visions of the world and ourselves. Even if they have different consequences on our lives, the experiences acquired in dreams, and during certain aesthetic experiences, can be as important and constitutive of the relationship we have with ourselves and with the other. We spend almost a third of our lives in the state of sleep. All people on this planet dream. Even animals dream. It is a very democratized « practice », absolutely necessary for our mental and physical balance. Dreams are experiences that engage us in processes of understanding the world we live in. In the same way in which artistic experiences engage us in the processes of imagining and feeling, which bring us a necessary balance between the real and the possible.
Is it possible that ‘dream experiences’ are integrated into our ‘body archives’ simply as life experiences? Could we create communities by dreaming? Could we be political in our dreams? Do we all dream the same dreams? Are our dreams the ‘genetic programs’ that repair us during the night? Could we imagine that dreams are a kind of particular imagination that populates our body all the time, day and night, like animals that inhabit the depths of the earth, and that come during the night to the surface, in our head, in the small theater of dreams, and then disappear in the depths?
A synesthetic experience, a reverie in a way, which unfolds before the spectators, gradually disturbing our perceptions of concrete and imaginary space, a nocturnal journey towards the unknown. It gathers the individual glances in a collective dream woven together during the time of the representation, surprising and perhaps repairing, freed from the consequences which dominate the diurnal and « waked » world.