Monologues
Series of solo performances
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 |
| Monologues #1, performance, choreography: | Christophe Jaquet |
| Monologues #2, performance, choreography: | Sahar Elzoghbi Gehad Hossam El Din |
| Monologues #3, performance, choreography | Auguste de Boursetty |
| Monologues #4, performance, choreography: | Gabriel Obergfell |
| Monologues #5, performance, choreography: | Alina Arshi |
| Monologues #6, performance, choreography: | Clara Delorme |
| Monologues #7, performance, choreography: | Collin Cabanis |
| Voice work: | An Chen |
| Masks: | Frank Braun |
| Costumes: | Marie Romanens |
| Scenography and technique: | al |
| Scientific research: | Leila Chakroun |
| Administration: | Léonore Friedli |
| Touring: | Ana Lagarrigue |
| Coproduction: | Cie Nicole Seiler Arsenic Lausanne |
| Support: | Ville de Lausanne Canton de Vaud ProHelvetia Loterie Romande Ernst Göhner Foundation Pour-cent culturel Migros Vaud |
