My Brazza
2021 - Director : Goudeau, Alexis
Choreographer(s) : Bobée, David (France)
Present in collection(s): l’Avant Seine / Théâtre de Colombes
Video producer : l'Avant Seine / Théâtre de Colombes
My Brazza
2021 - Director : Goudeau, Alexis
Choreographer(s) : Bobée, David (France)
Present in collection(s): l’Avant Seine / Théâtre de Colombes
Video producer : l'Avant Seine / Théâtre de Colombes
My Brazza
Florent Mahoukou est un danseur originaire du Congo-Brazzaville. C’est la danse qui l’a sauvé de l’enfer. En totale complicité avec l’auteur Ronan Chéneau et le metteur en scène David Bobée, il investit une salle de classe pour raconter et danser son pays, en révélant son propre parcours. Corps et mots mêlés, voilà la plus belle leçon d’histoire / géographie qui soit !
Le décor est planté : une salle de classe, des tables, des chaises, un tableau et des craies. C’est là que se raconte My Brazza. Écrite par Ronan Chéneau, lors d’un séjour à Brazzaville, et mise en espace par David Bobée, la pièce s’adresse aux ados.
Florent Mahoukou livre ses souvenirs, raconte sa ville, son pays tels qu’il les voit, tels qu’il les a rêvés, tels qu’il les a vécus, avec ses problèmes, ses élans, ses déchirures. Aussi bien acteur que danseur, il donne une bouleversante chorégraphie qui suscite l’échange avec son jeune auditoire. Il parle de lui et, à travers lui, de son pays ; depuis le Congo il dresse l’histoire du continent africain et de son inscription au monde d’aujourd’hui.
de Ronan Chéneau
mise en scène David Bobée
avec Lohick Madiele / Florent Mahoukou
régie Marielle Leduc
coproduction coproduction Théâtre de Sartrouville et des Yvelines–CDN, CDN de Normandie-Rouen, Groupe Rictus
Reprise de la production déléguée à partir de la saison 2016-2017
texte publié aux éditions Les Solitaires intempestifs, 2014
durée 40 min
Bobée, David
In July 2013 David Bobee was named director of the Centre dramatique national de Haute-Normandie (National Dramatic Centre of Upper Normandy), previously having been a resident artist with the Théâtre National de Chaillot (Chaillot National Theatre) and guest artistic director of the Moscow Gogol Theatre. His staging of "Roméo and Juliette" in 2012, in a new translation by Pascal and Antoine Collin was created at Les Subsistances in Lyon as part of the Biennale de la Danse (Dance biennial) and performed at the Théâtre National de Chaillot in November 2012. This piece is a flamboyant counterpoint to the icy darkness of his “Hamlet”, created in 2010. Up until then, David Bobee had dealt mostly with contemporary texts, in particular those of Ronan Chéneau: "Res Persona", "Fées" (Fairies), "Cannibales", "Dedans Dehors David" (Inside, outside, David), "Petit Frère" (Little brother), "Nos enfants nous font peur quand on les croise dans la rue" (Our children scare us when we meet them in the street). His work, characterised from the start by its mixture of artistic disciplines as much as cultures, lead him to stage the 23rd end of year show for CNAC − Centre national des arts du cirque (National Centre for Circus Arts) in “This is the end”. In Moscow, he re-staged two works by the group Rictus with Russian actors (“Fées-Fairies” in 2010, “Hamlet” in 2013), and created “Métamorphosis” in 2012 on a text by Ovid. These latter two shows were performed in France the following season.
Trained in cinema and the performing arts at the University of Caen, he then joined the theatre school of the Centre dramatique national (CDN) de Normandie (National Dramatic Centre of Normandy) and worked under Eric Lacascade as assistant stage director and then as artistic collaborator on the Chekhov trilogy (“La Mouette” (The Seagull), “Les trois soeurs” (Three Sisters) and “Ivanov”), “Les sonnets”, “Platonov”, “Hedda Gabler” and also “The Barbarians”. In 2003 and 2004, he co-directed sessions of the "Laboratoire d'imaginaire social" at the CDN de Normandie (National Dramatic Centre of Normandy).
Further information : David Bobee / Rictus
Goudeau, Alexis
Based in Colombes (FR).
l’Avant Seine / Théâtre de Colombes
Since November 2018, Ludovic Moreau has been directing the Avant Seine / Théâtre de Colombes with a project reflecting the dynamism of current creation with the aim of bringing together all generations and cultures. Each season is made up of around fifty shows from all artistic disciplines with an emphasis on young audiences - in particular with the quarterly meeting Les Enfants d’abord, dance and world cultures. The first edition of the En corps et encore festival, entirely dedicated to movement, took place in January 2022.
Source: l’Avant Seine / Théâtre de Colombes
My Brazza
Interpretation : Florent Mahoukou / Lohick Madiele
Stage direction : David Bobée
Text : Ronan Chéneau
Duration : 40 minutes
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