Massimo Furlan / Numero23Prod.

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Les filles et les garçons

Girls and Boys
A text by Christophe Fiat
A project by Massimo Furlan, NUMERO23Prod. (Switzerland)
Performance: 17th to 29th of April 2007, Arsenic, Lausanne

Girls are different and everything would be easier if, for a moment, it was possible to be in their shoes. Massimo Furlan literally attempts this experience, and crosses the worlds of five girls and five boys: leather and scooters, flowing tutus, cowboys with arched legs, hordes of savage girls… all collide in images which mix flashy kitsch with a disturbing (un)reality.

For the first time, the phantasmagorical images of Massimo Furlan are combined together with a narration by the writer and performer Christophe Fiat, who is also present on stage. His text draws from the fiction of Stephen King in order to evoke the intimacy of adolescence on a backdrop of fear and despair. Although Furlan’s ludicrosity may seem removed from Fiat’s writing, both recuperate codes belonging to popular culture. The collaboration emphasises the sense of disjuncture, all the while conveying with humour the difficulty of finding a point of convergence between the feminine and the masculine.

“Of course girls often make fun of boys. They like to defy them and slip away. Of course girls manage to remain in groups, like the boys. So they intersect without meeting, they hurt each other, but never ignore each other. And in the end, they always find each other and the encounter may begin.

Why do they finally consider each other? Why do they suddenly embrace? In these instants, time is suspended, difference annulled.

Then, boys and girls hold tighter dancing a slow which never ends, extending the instant. The body of the other becomes ones own in a tender intimacy. It is the beginning of an idyll.” Claire de Ribaupierre – Christophe Fiat

With:
Philippe de Rham, Anne Delahaye, Karine Dubois, Christophe Fiat, Antoine Friderici, Massimo Furlan, Laura Gamboni, Sophie Guyot, Thomas Hempler, Sun-Hye Hur, Shin Iglesias, Julie Monot, Claire de Ribaupierre, Yael Rion, Brian Tornay, Stéphane Vecchione.
(10 performers on stage)

With the support of:
La Loterie romande, l’Etat de Vaud, Pro Helvetia – Fondation suisse pour la culture, la Ville de Lausanne, la Banque Cantonale Vaudoise

A co production with:
Théâtre de l’Arsenic, Lausanne; Le Parc de la Villette, Paris