FACE A > 

Dance / materiel / sound (Premières : november 2024) 3 years and more

Designer and director / Amélie Poirier (Nouveaux Ballets)

Show without text (With the exception of one audio sequence, which we can easily translate).

FACE B >

Clown / objects and material / documentary theater

(Premières : november 2024) 7 years and more

Designer and director / Amélie Poirier (Nouveaux Ballets)

The show includes some text (The text can be translated live, orally by a local actress at the microphone)

The two sides of the show can be played together or independently.

After the show SCOOOOTCH! (2 years +) created in 2021, Amélie Poirier continues her research into the performative and playful nature of playing with objects in 2 mutually echoing forms for two different age groups.

Inspired in particular by the writings of author Sarah Schulman on relational repair processes, MAGNÉÉÉTIQUE brings that vintage object (unknown to the youngest), the Tape up to date in two different ways.

FACE A of the show (3+ years) choreographically stages the power and reconciliation between the two performers. Taking up the supposed musical language of the K7 (play, pause, fast forward, etc.), a whole choreographic vocabulary is brought to life, linked to the vocal score of one of the performers. Like the two poles of a magnet, opposing and attracting, their bodies and presences tell the story of the ties that bind us to others, whether taut or progressively more flexible. Our desire for fusion is revealed, as is our desire for emancipation.
As a climax to this performance, the two performers create a performative orchestra from old tapes machines. Chorality and spatialization are created live with the objects, playing with musical responses in relation to the performers' movements.

MAGNÉÉÉTIQUE's FACE B (7+) is a solo performance by actress/clown Marjorie Efther. This time, the K7 appears as a medium for oral archives, a way of summoning both memory and documentary theater. Mired in they everyday objects, locked in an interior they doesn't want to leave, they seems to be looking for resources to repair past conflictual relationships. Through a documentary work that aims to reflect on our “ghost archives” (those archives that administrations ignore), the aim is to observe our ways of relating to others and repairing relationships that seem to be breaking down. Apologizing and daring to be vulnerable. In collaboration with clown Marjorie Efther, we're also putting laughter back at the heart of the crisis. How can humor support us and cut short conflict?

> Full length video on request from January 2025

Season 24-25

> November 16 / Festival Forever Young, 

Loon-Plage > FACE A - 16:00

> November 23 / Festival Forever Young,

CDCN Le Gymnase, Roubaix > FACE A - 17:00

> from November 30 to December 3  / Ad Hoc Festival

Le Volcan : national stage, Le Havre

november 30 : FACE B - 14:30, FACE A - 16:30

december 1 : FACE B - 14:30, FACE A - 16:30

december 2 : FACE A - 10:00, FACE B - 14:30

december 3 : FACE A - 10:00

> from december 12 to december 17 / 

Le Vivat : scène conventioned stage, Armentières

december 12: FACE A - 10:00 and 14:30

december 13 : FACE A - 10:00 and 14:30

december 14: FACE A -10:30, FACE B -16:00

december 16 : FACE A - 10:00 and 14:30

december 17 : FACE B - 9:30 and 14:30

> January 17 and 18 / La Licorne Theater, Cannes

FACE A > 

january 17 : 10:00 and 14:30

january 18 : 10:30

> January 21 to 24 / Durance Theater : national stage, Château-Arnoux > FACE A

january 21 : 10:00 and 14:30

january 22 : 10:00 and 16:00

january 23 : 10:00 and 14:30

january 24:  10:00 and 14:30

> January 27 to 29 / Grasse Theater > FACE A

january 27 : 10:00 and 14:00

january 28 : 10:00 and 14:00

january 29 : 10:30

> January 31 to February 1 / Théâtre de l'Olivier, Istres

> FACE A 

> February 13 to 15 / Points Communs : National Stage, Cergy-Pontoise and Visages du Monde

> FACE A (Poins Communs) > FACE B (Visages du Monde)

february 13 : FACES A et B - 10:00 and 14:30

february 14 : FACES A et B - 10:00 and 14:30

february 15 : FACE A : 11:00, FACE B : 16:30

> March 19 to 22 /

Le Phénix : National Stage, Valenciennes

march 19 : FACE A : 10:00, FACE B : 15:00

march 20 : FACE A : 9:45, FACE B : 14:30

march 21 : FACE A : 9:45, FACE B : 14:30

march 22 : FACE A : 10:00, FACE B : 17:00

> March 28 to 30 /

Festival Mélimômes, Reims

> May 13 to 17 /

Le Bateau Feu : National Stage, Dunkerque

may 13 : FACE A : 10:00, FACE B : 14:30

may 14 : FACE A : 15:00, FACE B : 17:00

may 15 : FACE A : 10:00, FACE B : 14:30

may 16 : FACE A : 10:00, FACE B : 14:30

may 17 : FACE A : 15:00, FACE B : 17:00

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MAGNÉÉÉÉTIQUE ! (2024)

FACE A premières > november 16 

Festival Forever Young

FACE B premières > november 30

Festival ad Hoc, Le Volcan, National Stage, le Havre

Designer and director / Amélie Poirier

Set design / Philémon Vanorlé 

Sound design /

Mariane Berthault > FACE A

Light design/ Henri-Emmanuel Doublier

Artistic collaboration and stage management /

Audrey Robin 

Artistic collaboration and costumes /

Vaïssa Favereau

Performers : 

Face A :

Laure Desplan and Céline Lefèvre

accompanied by Audrey Robin

Face B :

Marjorie Efther accompanied by Audrey Robin

Tour Booker / Claire Girod

Administrator / Frédérique Rebergue

Coproduction / La Minoterie Scène conventionnée of Dijon, Le Volcan : National Stage of Le Havre, CDCN le Gymnase :Roubaix, 9.9 Bis : Oignies, La Tribu (a scheme to support the creation of shows for young audiences in south-east France), Points Communs : national stage of Cergy-Pontoise. 

Support / French Ministry of Culture in Hauts-de-France, Région Hauts-de-france, Département of the Pas-de-Calais, l'ADAMI, Culture Commune : national stage of Bassin Minier, Le Bateau Feu : national stage of Dunkerque, Le Vivat : scène conventionnée of Armentières,Le Théâtre à la coque : National Center for Puppet arts of Hennebont.

Production / Les Nouveaux Ballets du Nord-Pas de Calais (FR)

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