J’ai Attrapé un Éclair, et Imprisonné un Foudre
“I Caught a Lightning Bolt, and Imprisoned the Lightning”
Commissioned by le lieu unique March 2024
Direction: Blandine Briere and Guillaume Lavenant
Sound Recording, Interviews: Blandine Briere
Composition, Sound Design, Sensory Percussion: Cameron Graham
Dance, Movement: Sofian Jouni and Amine Hakiri
Scenography: Lise Abbadie
General Manager: Flora Gautier
Sound Technician: Florian Chauvet
VIDEO
For a year, the artist Blandine Brière and the director Guillaume Lavenant led a series of interviews, meetings and workshops around the theme of boxing in the Malakoff district of Nantes, investigating the histories, narratives and localisms of the sport. From this, the quintet of artists created a performance work combining documentary investigation, surrealistic sound design and live manipulated and performed samples of the acoustical indexes of boxing on sensory percussion drums.
The project injects and inflames the memory and physicality of boxing, and pays tribute to those who both practice as well as the coaches and mentors in the community.