Crowd

The prestigious Teatro Argentina hosts the Franco-Austrian artist Gisèle Vienne and her show dedicated to the party, collective and ritual practice of all societies and eras.

A rave party evokes trance, bacchanalia, and tarantella through postures, attitudes, gestures, and moving bodies. When the energy released collectively intensifies and recalls an excess of life, a slowing effect dilates the perception of things.

Crowd shows us the narratives and movements, composed and undone, and, as in a party, tells us a series of stories: how individuals group, how moods propagate, and how forms of control and emulation act.

No lyrics, but many expressive elements - movement, light, sound - brought on stage by 17 performers catapulted into a picture at times hallucinated, but where something that deeply concerns us emerges.

Concept, choreography, and scenography by Gisèle Vienne with the help of Anja Röttgerkamp and Nuria Guiu Sagarra
Lights Patrick Riou
Dramaturgy Gisèle Vienne and Denis Cooper
Musical selections by Underground Resistance, KTL, Vapour Space, DJ Rolando, Drexciya, The Martian, Choice, Jeff Mills, Peter Rehberg Manuel Göttsching, Sun Electric, and Global Communication
Selection of the playlist by Peter Rehberg
Sound diffusion manager Stephen O'Malley
Performers Lucas Bassereau, Philip Berlin, Marine Chesnais, Sylvain Decloitre, Sophie Demeyer, Vincent Dupuy, Rehin Hollant, Georges Labbat, Theo Livesey, Maya Masse, Katia Petrowick, Linn Ragnarsson, Jonathan Schatz, Henrietta Berg alternating with Morgane Bonis and Walltyra Wigg

The program may be subject to changes

Photo: © E. Hanania