Johanny Bert
Romette Theater Company - Clermont-Ferrand / France
DEVASTATE ME
Executive production: IVT - International Visual Theatre
Co-productions: Théâtre de Romette and the Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, national stage
With the help of ADAMI and SPEDIDAM
I met Emmanuelle Laborit in a theater in the suburbs of Paris. At first we spoke to each other with our eyes, with our smiles, with our hand signs. It was by knowing her, by discovering her language, her fight that I increasingly wanted to create a show for and with her.
She is a fan of Michael Jackson, Nina Hagen, Alain Bashung and Callas. She tells me why. Their attitudes, their energy and imagines the grain of their voices. A creation for a deaf actress who sings.
Here we are immersed for three years in research on a stage language to which I invite Yan Raballand, choreographer, and the musical ensemble The Delano Orchestra, also based in Clermont-Ferrand.
The body will be the subject of our research. As in a lyrical recital, a popular ball, a rock concert or a musical monologue, this woman reveals herself and sings-signs her desires, her liberations, her wounds. She speaks of the ills of female bodies: sensual bodies, mistreated bodies, bodies masking buried feelings, liberated bodies. The musicians are the vibrations of her body, and the notes her thoughts.
Words become signs and are transformed into a choreographic, visual language, where each song becomes a fragment of a story that, little by little, allows us to immerse ourselves in the universe of this woman who cannot hear but who translates what her body feels.
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Directed by Johanny Bert
In collaboration with Yan Raballand , choreographer
Actress Emmanuelle Laborit sings
Musicians The Delano Orchestra
Guillaume Bongiraud
Yann Clavaizolle
Matthew Lopez,
Julien Quinet,
Alexandre Rochon
LSF interpreters Corinne Gache, Carlos Carreras
Dramaturgical research Alexandra Lazarescou
Video creation Virginie Premer
Costume design by Petronille Salomé
Costume intern Stella Croce
Dresser Louise Watts
Lighting creation by Félix Bataillou
Sound Director Simon Muller
Photographs Jean-Louis Fernandez
Delegate production IVT – International Visual Theatre
Co-production Théâtre de Romette and La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, national stage
With the help of Adami and SPEDIDAM
AROUND THE SHOW
- Public support file written by Amélie Rouher , for La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, national stage
Web radio of the Comedy of Clermont
Saturday September 30, 2017 Les Volcans bookstore
Broadcast accessible to deaf and hard of hearing people, thanks to the presence of two French sign language interpreters. Live video broadcast in sign language.
With Emmanuelle Laborit, actress and Johanny Bert, director.
LIVE! The Delano Orchestra will perform an excerpt from the show in preview. THE SHOW In residence in Clermont-Ferrand for the creation of the musical show DÉVASTE-MOI, Emmanuelle Laborit and Johanny Bert are the first guests of the cycle of radio shows dedicated to the programming of the Comédie. At the microphone of Marie Serve, they will return to the stages of the conception of the piece.
