As part of the 11th edition of [ frasq ] – Rencontre de la performance from October 5 to 20, 2019
Alberto Sorbelli knows a thing or two about remembering opera’s origins as a sensual, almost erotic feast, as he remains deeply attached to its popular, noisy, lively and teeming form. Following on from the four Bals Rêvés successively created from 2013 to 2016 at Le Générateur, À l’écoute du bal rêvé, a performative, embodied work in three acts, celebrates the encounter between the arts and the audience!
Wagner killed the Opera in 1876, Alberto Sorbelli, refusing this crime, brings to life the Bal Rêvé.
“The lights had to go out, a sensitive and silent night, necessarily silent, had to take over the auditorium for the theater to cease being a celebration and become liturgical, sacred, lamentably religious once again. The spectator, mummified by this tenebrous ritual, can do nothing. He can no longer speak, eat, scream, make love, play cards or converse about anything else. He’s totally required, forced to be absent from himself, forced to believe in this shoddy world, bloated with gestures and words… ”
With Sarah Aguilar, Anaïs Ang, Anaïs Barras, William Below, Laura Ben Ami, Irène Bousquet, Linda Branco, Caroline Bravo, Judith Cahen, La Casaforte S.B., Lise Casazza, Pauline Ctr, Jérôme Cusin, Lea Dasenka, Anne Dreyfus, Éléonore Duhennois, Raphaële Dupire, Sophia El Mokhtar, Kamilla Sani Gabdullina, Barbara Gay, Marina Glorian, Zoé Guillemaud, Julien Haguenauer, Deed Julius, François Lévy, Rémy Louchart, Daniele Marranca, Julie Meilleur, David Noir, Xavier Paladian, Sophie Pariente, Alessia Siniscalchi, SKALL, Alberto Sorbelli, Linda Suk, Nadia Vadori-Gauthier & Damien Dos Santos, Guillaume Victor-Pujebet, Le Sycomore with Nina Ayachi, Ruben Badinter, Jean-Baptiste Cautain, Clara Chretien, Juliette de Ribaucourt, Giulia De Sia, Salomé Dugraindelorge, Victor Inisan, Adrien Madinier, Vero Yann, Eve Zandi (…)