As part of the central programme Traits d’union.s of Manifesta 13 Marseille, the AOZIZ network presents the performance Sublime.é, created by L’Atelier de Mars and L’autre Maison with Andrew Graham, Béatrice Pedraza et Florence Morana. The performance will take place at the Théâtre de La Criée, in collaboration with Bokolo Collective.
L’autre Maison and L’Atelier de Mars examine the language of inclusion in body practices and cultivates an aesthetic based on relationships, making no judgments about what the ideal body should be. These two companies host a various programme of classes, workshops, lectures and residences inviting artists and audiences to deepen their reflections and exchange ideas. L’autre Maison and L’Atelier de Mars create spaces for embodied encounters and eventually plan to open a space in Marseille dedicated to inclusive and intersectional initiatives.
This collaboration consolidates an expertise of more than ten years of experience in broadening participation in the arts, with a particular capacity to work with mixed groups of people with and without disabilities. The practices of the body and the arts are at the heart of the project in order to generate new intercultural encounters, and thus create a meeting point for difference and creation.
The actors of l’Atelier de Mars and the dancers of l’autre Maison create an anthology of beauty through a collection of lively scenes by reappropriating bits of contemporary texts and choreographies. These disabled and non-disabled artists question the representations of bodies in all their diversity and singularity.
How to make beauty a playground? They enjoy deconstructing the codes of representation out of physical necessity or out of pure pleasure of acting.
There is only one leitmotiv: to make oneself beautiful, to live beautiful and to give beauty. They will take the time to leave images, traces, sensations and voices, on an empty stage, lit by flash, accompanied by microphones and live music. In order to capture as closely as possible the sounds, the breaths, the bodies, the words said and experienced in a different way. They upset, disturb, reanimate and mobilise something in each person in a suspended time, questioning our state between animality and humanity. They create a moment of sublimation as if to take off from our states of survival, hunger, thirst, care, quasi-medical functioning, so that each one can set off on the adventure of creation, of imagination, and perhaps then, this adventure of evolution, of surpassing oneself to invent sublime ways of being together.
We no longer talk about disability and inclusion. We are talking about how to make ‘us’!
To allow oneself
To see beyond our field of vision, and maybe,
So imagine,
Another thing,
Of oneself, of us.
The Bokolo Collective is an association that promotes artistic projects combining acoustic music and urban voices. It is a group of artists since January 2020 that brings together musicians featuring singers, slammers and rappers from Marseille. The association creates and interprets acoustic pieces with Mediterranean, West African and Latin American influences. Currently, the association is in residence at the Berber Institute of Marseille and collaborates regularly with the theatre de l’oeuvre. The Collectif Bokolo performs on open stages, music workshops and on various stages in Marseille.
Free entry, on registration HERE.
A co-production of Théâtre La Criée and the Festival de Marseille as part of the EU project BE PART, supported by Salle de Concert Le Moulin.
