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Project Pinocchio

Cas Public

Forget Jiminy Cricket and Walt Disney: in this dazzlingly personal version of the well-known classic, the inimitable Hélène Blackburn explores the metamorphoses that shape our lives, and even our life's work.

Who is telling the truth: the work or its creator? In the age of artificial intelligence, it may be the nose of the first Pinocchio that holds the answer to this question. In the original 1881 book, Carlo Collodi explores what the puppet tells us about its creator, on the one hand, and the astonishing transformations that are carving our future like wood, on the other. With Projet Pinocchio, Blackburn distills the exceptional choreographic material lodged in these reflections through an athletic signature whose hypnotizing magic she alone knows how to deploy. Before our very eyes, five performers take us on a journey through the torments of the body, the suprises of aging, the changes we are all confronted with. The choreography, subtle yet demanding, takes them back to the astonishing plant and animal evolutions that have built our common history, to find something to build on: horsing around, chickening out, lions' heart and copy cats alike. Each one becomes its own work, revealing the unsuspected depths of the creative gesture. Blackburn deconstructs the story of Pinocchio to extract its subtle essence, its articulated gestures, its human form oriented towards change.

Info

Year of creation : 2023

55 minutes

5 dancers

Specs

8 hours set-up

2 hours strike

Tour

9 people on tour

2 double bedrooms

5 single bedrooms

Audience

Ages 7 and up

Workshop available

Discussion after the show

why program this show?

  • A famous story meets genius choreographer
  • Trusts children and teens' intelligence
  • Acclaimed at the Opéra national de Paris
  • Dynamic and powerful

credits

Creation Cas Public / Hélène Blackburn Choreography and Artistic Direction Hélène Blackburn Performers Aicha Benchâaboune, Gianni Illiaquer, Adrian Maxwell-Campagna, Norika Isomura, Zack Preece, Élodie Scholtes-Labrecque, Douglas Oliveira Music Vincent Legault

Set Design Hélène Blackburn in collaboration with Emmanuel Landry Lighting Design Emmanuel Landry Costume Design Michael Slack Animations Marjolaine Leray VIDEOS Direction Xavier Curnillon Director of Photography Yann Manuel Hernandez Co-produced by Agora de la danse [Montreal, Canada] and the Centre André Malraux / Scène(s) de territoire / Hazebrouck [Hazebrouck, France] Creative residencies Agora de la danse [Montreal, Canada], Théâtre de la Ville [Longueuil, Canada], Centre André Malraux / Scène(s) de territoire / Hazebrouck [Hazebrouck, France]

calendar

Sainte-Thérèse

Odyscène

7 novembre 2024

14:00

Grande-Synthe

Palais du Littoral

11 avril 2024

20:00

Reims

Festival Méli Môme

9 avril 2024

18:30

Reims

Festival Méli Môme

9 avril 2024

14:30

Vaulx-en-Velin

Centre Charlie Chaplin

5 avril 2024

20:00

Vaulx-en-Velin

Centre Charlie Chaplin

5 avril 2024

14:00

Miramas

Théâtre La Colonne

20 mars 2024

20:00

Miramas

Théâtre La Colonne

19 mars 2024

14:30

Miramas

Théâtre La Colonne

19 mars 2024

09:30

Saint-Étienne

Opéra de Saint-Étienne

16 mars 2024

16:00

Saint-Étienne

Opéra de Saint-Étienne

15 mars 2024

14:00

Saint-Étienne

Opéra de Saint-Étienne

14 mars 2024

14:00

Saint-Étienne

Opéra de Saint-Étienne

14 mars 2024

10:00

Paris

Opéra national de Paris

11 mars 2024

14:00

Paris

Opéra national de Paris

11 mars 2024

10:00

Paris

Opéra national de Paris

9 mars 2024

20:00

Paris

Opéra national de Paris

9 mars 2024

15:00

Paris

Opéra national de Paris

8 mars 2024

20:00

Paris

Opéra national de Paris

8 mars 2024

14:00

Longueuil

Théâtre de la Ville

20 février 2024

13:30

Longueuil

Théâtre de la Ville

20 février 2024

10:00

Longueuil

Théâtre de la Ville

19 février 2024

13:30

Longueuil

Théâtre de la Ville

19 février 2024

10:00

Cas Public

Hélène Blackburn

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