© Lionel Pralus
Staged performance
The Democracy Project
Maëlle Dequiedt | La Phenomena | Francisco Alvarado | Simon Hatab
6 to 26€
12€ with carte musica
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Wed, 1 Oct 202519:00
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Thu, 2 Oct 202519:00
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1:00
At the dawn of their careers, three young performers are brought together on stage by Maëlle Dequiedt. They play, sing, give voice to their desires, and observe the world in an imaginary dialogue with anthropologist and anarchist thinker David Graeber.
The Democracy Project is the title of an essay by David Graeber, anthropologist, anarchist thinker, and key figure in the Occupy Wall Street movement. As democracy faces growing threats, he asserts the need to live as if we were already free: not by overthrowing domination but by ceasing to produce it, by imagining a revolution not as a single grand uprising but as an endless improvisation. Building on this idea, La Phenomena invites three extraordinary musicians to take an interview with Graeber and turn it into a genre-defying, highly inflammable performance. At the dawn of their careers, they dive head-first into his ideas, electrifying his words with music and reflecting on the meaning of their journeys, their contradictions, and their place as artists in society, all through the lens of his battles.
based on the writings of David Graeber and an
interview
published in Ballast magazine in December 2015
a collective creation by
La Phenomena
Program
The Democracy Project
scenic design Maëlle Dequiedt
electronic development Francisco Alvarado
dramaturgy Simon Hatab
sound design Matéo Esnault
lights Nicolas Marie
Cast
singing Virgile Pellerin
double bass Sulivan Loiseau
saxophone Miho Kiyokawa
lights Jeanne Laffargue
Post-Show Discussion
With the artistic team
Wed, October 1 – after the performance
production La Phenomena
coproduction Musica, Théâtre dʼOrléans - Scène Nationale, Université de Lille, La Pop
supported through a creative residency by La vie brève – Théâtre de lʼAquarium
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