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ARC

ARC by JULIEN DESPREZ
Solo for electrical arc, electronics, with dismembered guitar and tap dance.
Duration: 50′

With ARC, Julien Desprez creates a dramaturgy, a sound and choreographic performance in which the various mediums of expression succeed one another to tell and reveal the relationship between human emotions, love and electrical intensity. At center stage, a carpet created by performer and choreographer Ana Rita Teodoro serves as the starting point for a complex network of electric arcs designed in collaboration with artist and sound technician Nicolas Canot. This high-voltage orchestra is amplified by electro-magnetic processes inspired by electric guitar amplification techniques.

ARC explores the link between human emotions and electrical intensity. Neuroscience tells us that electricity drives our emotional functioning: neurons discharge small amounts of electricity in the brain when we feel emotions. In the midst of a starry network of electric arcs on the floor, Julien Desprez allows himself to be traversed by multiple degrees of intensity that will generate emotional states and their forms of expression: a love song, a hypnotic rhythmic trance, a game of moving electric arcs, guitar playing and its sonic eruptions. He dances, plays, sings, in a frantic rhythm or in suspended time that exposes him and reveals the fragility of the human psyche

 

 

 

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Julien Desprez: performance, artistic direction & composition
Nicolas Canot: design of electrical arcs modules & stage manager
Géraldine Foucault: outer ear
Ana Rita Teodoro: outside view, costume design

Delegated production: La Muse en Circuit – CNCM
Coproduction: Anis Gras – le Lieu de l’Autre (Arcueil) / Le Phare à Lucioles / Le M![lieu] / Le Sirque, Pôle National des Arts du Cirque / Collectif COAX / Murailles Music / Tempo reale / Ici l’Onde / Césaré – CNCM
With the support of Art Zoyd Studios – CNCM.
Booking: Murailles Music

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