Jasmine Morand
CREATION 2024 (Play for eight dancers)
Concept, choreography Jasmine Morand
Dance and choreographic collaboration (8 dancers in alternance) Fabio Bergamaschi, Louis Bourrel, Laëtitia Dupertuis, Céline Fellay, Jeanne Gumy, Eléonore Heiniger, Anne-Charlotte Huber, Maxime Jeannerat, Krassen Krastev, Ismael Oiartzabal, Valentine Paley, Amaury Reot, Nicolas Turicchia, Luisa Schöfer, Marco Volta
Assistantship Fabio Bergamaschi
Scenography Neda Loncarevic
Light design Rainer Ludwig
Sound and arrangements Dragos Tara
Technical direction Cécile Robin
Technical management Louis Riondel, Sebastien Graz, Charlotte Rychner, Luis Henkes
Costumes Toni Teixeira
Construction of scenic device Le Ratelier : Jean-Marie Mathey, Antoine Mozer, Lucien Mozer
Construction of mirror device Philippe Botta, Léo Bachmann
Electric installation Luc-Etienne Gersbach
Painting Béatrice Lipp
Administration Marianne Caplan
Production assistant Virginie Pasquier
Booking & production France Florence Francisco & Gabrielle Baille - Les Productions de la Seine
Production Prototype Status
Coproduction Switzerland Théâtre Le Reflet - Vevey, Théâtre Benno Besson – Yverdon-les-bains, Equilibre-Nuithonie – Fribourg, Le Petit Théâtre de Lausanne, Am Stram Gram & Festival Antigel, Kasern - Basel
A coproduction in the frame of the Coproduction Fund of Reso Dance Network Switzerland. Supported by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.
Coproduction France Théâtre Paul Eluard (TPE) de Bezons, scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art & Création – Danse, L'Arc - Scène nationale du Creusot, Théâtre Jean Vilar de Vitry-sur-Scène
Résidencies Dansomètre – Espace de création chorégraphique
Support Etat de Vaud, Ville de Vevey, Loterie Romande, Pro Helvetia, Fondation Ernst Goehner, Fondation Sandoz, Pour cent culturel Migros Vaud, SSA,
Fonds culturel Riviera, Fondation Corymbo, Fondation Lombard Odier
MIRKIDS
Creation for young audiences
MIRKIDS is a choreographic device for eight dancers which is presented as a physical kaleidoscope. It offers the young audience an experience and a journey that is both artistic and kinetic. The piece is based on perpetual movement to create a real "image factory" that is contemplative, fantastic and organic.
Lying around the cylindrical structure like a zoetrope, each child can be immersed in the celestial vision of the show. MIRKIDS takes hold of each child's imagination to animate and give meaning to the forms that take shape and diminish before our eyes.
TREATMENT
MIRKIDS, a kinetic image and hypnotic kaleidoscope of bodies, invites us to take a vision of the female and male body multiplied like an image observed through a kaleidoscope.
This volume of bodies is formed by 8 dancers lying on the floor, just like the spectators, and is arranged in a herringbone pattern so as to cover the surface of a disc approximately 6 metres in diameter. The bodies of the dancers are organised, woven, interwoven and superimposed to create interdependent forms, where the notion of individuality is lost in favour of the whole to create a living picture. These images morph into each other to offer a time of reverie and contemplation that is intimate and specific to everyone.
Omnipresent geometry, whether symmetric or asymmetric, in confrontation or in unison, the dancers evolve for most of the piece in a flat position within the scenographic structure, separated from the audience by partitions. The choreography focuses on a perpetually cyclical movement, where the interplay of bodies is coordinated in an organic and synchronised way. The omnipresence of geometry throughout the choreography serves as a framework for the emergence of images and visions that are free to be interpreted and that can echo the oceanic, vegetal, animal or cellular world. The choreographed result could be compared to a rose window or an animated mandala.
REPRESENTATION DATES
On 20th & 21st June 2025
Hellerau, during the festival Watch Out !, Dresdes (DE)
On 16th & 17th May 2025 | double programme MIRKIDS & MIRE
Saison culturelle CO2 – Fête de la danse, Bulle (CH)
On 8th & 9th May 2025
Forum Meyrin, Genève (CH)
On 4th March 2025
Krokusfestival, at the Cultuurcentrum Hasselt (BE)
On 14th & 15th February 2025 | double programme MIRKIDS & MIRE
MA scène nationale, Montbéliard (FR)
On 14th & 15th January 2025 | double programme MIRKIDS & MIRE
Scènes et Cinés – Théâtre de l’Olivier, Istres (FR)
From 13th to 17th November 2024
Théâtre du passage & ADN - Danse, Neuchâtel (CH)
On 7th & 8th November 2024
Festival LOOSTIK, at the Carreau, scène nationale de Forbach et de l’est mosellan (FR)
On 25th September 2024
Young Dance Festival, Zug (CH)
On 22nd & 23rd September 2024
Théâtre du Jura, Delémont (CH)
On 8th & 9th July 2024
Festival Think BIG!, Munich (DE)
On 5th & 6th June 2024
Blickfelder Festival, Zürich (CH)
From 9th to 18th Februray 2024
Théâtre Am Stram Gram in collaboration with the Festival Antigel, Genève (CH)
From 23th to 28th January 2024 | double programme MIRKIDS & MIRE
Théâtre de la Ville Châtelet, Paris (FR)
On 25th March 2024
Le Mail, scène culturelle, Soissons, during the Festival Kidanse with L’échangeur - CDCN Hauts-de-France Château-Thierry (FR)
On 21st and 22nd March 2024
La Faïencerie - scène conventionnée de Creil, during the Festival Kidanse with L’échangeur - CDCN Hauts-de-France Château-Thierry (FR)
On 19th and 20th March 2024
Le Safran, Amiens, during the Festival Kidanse with L’échangeur - CDCN Hauts-de-France Château-Thierry (FR)From 14th to 16th December
2023 | double programme MIRKIDS & MIRE
L'Arc - Scène Nationale Le Creusot (FR)
On 5th & 6th December 2023
Théâtre du Crochetan, Monthey (CH)
From 22nd November to 3rd December 2023
Le Petit Théâtre de Lausanne, in collaboration with the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne (CH)
From 1st to 9th November 2023
Équilibre-Nuithonie, Fribourg (CH)
From 7th to 10th October 2023
Théâtre Benno Besson - Yverdon-les-Bains (CH)
On 4th October 2023
L'usine à gaz, Nyon (CH)
From 28th September to 1st October 2023 | Premiere
Théâtre Le Reflet - Vevey (CH)
From 23rd to 28th March 2023 | Preview
Théâtre Paul Eluard, scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art & Création – Danse de Bezons (FR)
©Céline Michel