Pas de deux chez soi

Pas de deux chez soi

A physical orchestration inspired by the work of Shostakovich

A chassé-croisé featuring 10 actors (INSAS) and 15 circus artists (ESAC) set to music by Shostakovich. An atmosphere that evokes the environment of the kommunalka, Soviet era communal apartments in which each resident had an area of less than four square metres. Very different people are brought together by force of circumstance. Everyday life there is governed by very strict rules to which no exceptions are permitted. Trapped behind closed doors, the couples accumulate the most anodyne gestures and the most symbolic actions in life in a rigidly confined environment cluttered with incongruous objects, yet where nothing ever stays in its place.

Credits

Conception and direction: Ingrid von Wantoch Rekowski
Assistants: Natacha Nicora, Manolo Sellat
Stage design, costumes: Benoît Escarmelle, Anne Guilleray
Lights: Reynaldo Ramperssad
Technical control: Jean-François Keller, Juan Van De Put
Performers: Aminata Abdoulaye, Faustine Boissery, Nahuel Fernando Broin, Raphaëlle Corbisier, Christian Cordonier, Mikaël Di Marzo, Nicole Félix Rodrigues, Rocio Aimé Garrote, Alizée Gaye, Camille Judic, Mikail Karahan, Christian König, Ellen Leonardson, Antoine Linsale, Luca Lugari, Anne-Julia Neumann, Samuel Padolus, Lionel Robyr, Mélissa Roguier, Diego Salles Silva Santos, Johan Santiago Aponte, Mary Schroeder, Julia Tesson and Samuel Van der Zwalmen

Production: ESAC, INSAS