Monologues #6

performance, 2025, 110'

Monologues unfolds through a series of performances scattered across time and space, each taking shape in distinct moments and places. Contrary to the idea of the monologue as a solitary, egocentric logorrhea, choreographer Nicole Seiler explores the notion in its plural, collective form.
The monologues listen to and respond to each other, to the point where a polyphonic self-poem emerges in their interstices. What does it mean to have a voice?  What does the voice say, even when it's wordless? What does the body say, even when it has no voice?
To give real substance to the Monologues, Nicole Seiler turned to ethology for inspiration, in particular the ways in which birds make landscapes vibrate and vary their modes of presence, between discretion and exclamation. Less to imitate them (and take their voice) than to explore how their radical otherness enables us to find our own voice.
In this way, the Monologues invite us to nurture and cherish plural, shifting and cobbled-together identities. They reveal both idiosyncrasies and transversalities, through the ways in which each performer expresses herself and begins to exist here and now, in the hope of being heard and having moved.

concept, choreography:	Nicole Seiler
performance, choreography:	Clara Delorme
voice work:	An Chen
masks:	Frank Braun
costumes:	Marie Romanens
light design and technique:	Charlotte Roche-Meredith
artistic collaboration as part of the fellowship grant from the City of Lausanne and the Canton of Vaud:	Nina Negri
scientific research:	Leila Chakroun
administration:	Léonore Friedli
touring:	Ana Lagarrigue
coproduction:	Cie Nicole Seiler,  Arsenic Lausanne
supports:	Ville de Lausanne Canton de Vaud ProHelvetia  Loterie Romande Fondation Ernst Göhner  Pour-cent culturel Migros Vaud