Re-creation 2024, show for all ages 12 and up
Two men and two women inhabit a confined space, a 5m x 5m square, for a single purpose: to kiss. Kissing means encountering the other person, but also oneself. It means giving and receiving kisses, but also embracing, encompassing, containing something in its entirety, adopting an opinion, committing oneself, grasping the whole picture at a glance... A single word gives rise to a multitude of meanings. Based on this principle, situations are invented and encounters create sketches of narratives that are light-hearted, absurd, funny and frightening.
Leitmotiv plays with the microscope, analysing human habits, gestures given and taken. An exquisite subject that embraces, distances, taps, kisses, freezes the image, looks, sees, experiences itself. A still life of embrace emerges for this carnal and pictorial huis clos, 1000 and 1 ways of envisaging encounter, otherness, being together... - Céline Roux
At the invitation of Béatrice Hanin, director of the Théâtre scène nationale de Saint-Nazaire, I revived the quartetLeitmotiv, created in 2013, with a partially renewed cast, Violette Angé taking over the role of Camille Kerdellant.
Beyond a new play that takes shape through a different set of interactions, Leitmotiv offers, 13 years later, an interpretation of our relationship with others that has been nourished by a decade of highlighting issues of otherness, particularly through the #MeToo feminist movement.
Thus, despite its strongly burlesque dimension, there are more ‘hazardous’ moments in which comedy gives way to slight unease, where uncertainty reigns in the interpretation of a gesture, both for the performers and for the audience.
Finally, beyond the signifier, Leitmotiv remains, ultimately, a study in variation, where space, time and rhythm construct a choreographic and vocal score of assured virtuosity.
Leitmotiv
Concept Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh
Dancers 2025 Violette Angé, Alexia Bigot, Cyril Geeroms, David Monceau
Dancers 2013 Alexia Bigot, Cyril Geeroms, Camille Kerdellant, David Monceau
Light desigh Françoise Michel
Costumes 2025 Violette Angé, Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh
Costumes 2013 Maeva Cunci
Production manager Solenne Racapé
Duration 50 minutes
Production PAVILLON-S, Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh
production of the Phare, Centre chorégraphique national du Havre Normandie (2013)
Partners Théâtre National de Bretagne (Mettre en Scène Festival), Centre chorégraphique national du Havre Haute-Normandie, CDC Paris Réseau, Le Théâtre, scène nationale de Saint-Nazaire.
Ce projet a bénéficié de l’aide à l’écriture et à la production de l’association Beaumarchais-SACD (2023) et de l'aide à la reprise de l'ODIA Normandie (2025).
Pavillon-s is supported by le Ministère de la culture – DRAC Normandie, the Région Normandie, the Département de l’Eure, the Département de Seine-Maritime and the Ville de Rouen.
Schedule
January 31st 2013 - Festival Pharenheit, Le Havre
February 1st and 2nd 2013 - Festival Pharenheit, Le Havre
May 21st 2013 - Scène Nationale d’Évreux/Louviers
August 30th and 31st août 2013 - Les Brigittines, Bruxelles
October 6th 2013 - Festival des vendanges, Suresnes
March 29th 2014 - Merlin Theatre, Frome (UK)
April 3rd 2014 - The Point, Eastleigh (UK)
April 5th 2014 - South East Dance, Hextable (UK)
June 14th and 15th 2014 - Musée André Malraux, Le Havre
January 29th 2015 - Théâtre du Château, Eu
February 3rd 2015 - Théâtre des Chalands, Val-de-Reuil
May 30th 2015 - Soirée Phare West #6 : 30 ans!, Le Havre
January 11th 2018 - Lycée Raymond Queneau, Yvetot (Parcours Regard)
January 15th 2019 - Lycée Jules Lecesne, Le Havre (Parcours Regard)
February 7th 2020 - Festival Pharenheit, Le Havre
February 14th 2025 - Collège Lycée Saint Joseph, Thonon-les-Bains
March 15th 2025 - Le Théâtre, scène nationale de Saint-Nazaire / Pang!
Re-creation 2024, show for all ages 12 and up
Two men and two women inhabit a confined space, a 5m x 5m square, for a single purpose: to kiss. Kissing means encountering the other person, but also oneself. It means giving and receiving kisses, but also embracing, encompassing, containing something in its entirety, adopting an opinion, committing oneself, grasping the whole picture at a glance... A single word gives rise to a multitude of meanings. Based on this principle, situations are invented and encounters create sketches of narratives that are light-hearted, absurd, funny and frightening.
Leitmotiv plays with the microscope, analysing human habits, gestures given and taken. An exquisite subject that embraces, distances, taps, kisses, freezes the image, looks, sees, experiences itself. A still life of embrace emerges for this carnal and pictorial huis clos, 1000 and 1 ways of envisaging encounter, otherness, being together... - Céline Roux
At the invitation of Béatrice Hanin, director of the Théâtre scène nationale de Saint-Nazaire, I revived the quartetLeitmotiv, created in 2013, with a partially renewed cast, Violette Angé taking over the role of Camille Kerdellant.
Beyond a new play that takes shape through a different set of interactions, Leitmotiv offers, 13 years later, an interpretation of our relationship with others that has been nourished by a decade of highlighting issues of otherness, particularly through the #MeToo feminist movement.
Thus, despite its strongly burlesque dimension, there are more ‘hazardous’ moments in which comedy gives way to slight unease, where uncertainty reigns in the interpretation of a gesture, both for the performers and for the audience.
Finally, beyond the signifier, Leitmotiv remains, ultimately, a study in variation, where space, time and rhythm construct a choreographic and vocal score of assured virtuosity.
Leitmotiv
Concept Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh
Dancers 2025 Violette Angé, Alexia Bigot, Cyril Geeroms, David Monceau
Dancers 2013 Alexia Bigot, Cyril Geeroms, Camille Kerdellant, David Monceau
Light desigh Françoise Michel
Costumes 2025 Violette Angé, Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh
Costumes 2013 Maeva Cunci
Production manager Solenne Racapé
Duration 50 minutes
Production PAVILLON-S, Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh
production of the Phare, Centre chorégraphique national du Havre Normandie (2013)
Partners Théâtre National de Bretagne (Mettre en Scène Festival), Centre chorégraphique national du Havre Haute-Normandie, CDC Paris Réseau, Le Théâtre, scène nationale de Saint-Nazaire.
Ce projet a bénéficié de l’aide à l’écriture et à la production de l’association Beaumarchais-SACD (2023) et de l'aide à la reprise de l'ODIA Normandie (2025).
Pavillon-s is supported by le Ministère de la culture – DRAC Normandie, the Région Normandie, the Département de l’Eure, the Département de Seine-Maritime and the Ville de Rouen.
Schedule
January 31st 2013 - Festival Pharenheit, Le Havre
February 1st and 2nd 2013 - Festival Pharenheit, Le Havre
May 21st 2013 - Scène Nationale d’Évreux/Louviers
August 30th and 31st août 2013 - Les Brigittines, Bruxelles
October 6th 2013 - Festival des vendanges, Suresnes
March 29th 2014 - Merlin Theatre, Frome (UK)
April 3rd 2014 - The Point, Eastleigh (UK)
April 5th 2014 - South East Dance, Hextable (UK)
June 14th and 15th 2014 - Musée André Malraux, Le Havre
January 29th 2015 - Théâtre du Château, Eu
February 3rd 2015 - Théâtre des Chalands, Val-de-Reuil
May 30th 2015 - Soirée Phare West #6 : 30 ans!, Le Havre
January 11th 2018 - Lycée Raymond Queneau, Yvetot (Parcours Regard)
January 15th 2019 - Lycée Jules Lecesne, Le Havre (Parcours Regard)
February 7th 2020 - Festival Pharenheit, Le Havre
February 14th 2025 - Collège Lycée Saint Joseph, Thonon-les-Bains
March 15th 2025 - Le Théâtre, scène nationale de Saint-Nazaire / Pang!