This show was born from the pleasure of playing between two disciplines, theater and dance. Three materials guided the directors’ research: Oxygène, a text emblematic of the movement called “New Russian writings”, which began in the 1990s; Swan Lake, ballet composed at the end of the 19th century; and, finally, the storyboard of a short film imagined by Vilma Pitrinaite. They partially rewrote the text and the music, re-exploited the classical ballet, diverted the original fictions. Other materials, brought by the whole team (improvisations, music, monologues) were then added. All these pieces ended up composing together an autonomous, organic and rhythmic machine. The three actors explore it, walk its gears, support it’s short circuits. They channel the energy, vital, but perhaps destructive, illustrated by the chorus of composition n ° 3 of Oxygen by Russian author Ivan Viripaev: “Oxygen, if you get addicted to oxygen, neither money, nor drugs, nor even death can quench that thirst for beauty and freedom that you will gain. “
After Ivan Viripaev’s « Oxygen » and the ballet « Swan Lake »
Directing: Vilma Pitrinaitė, Thomas Pondevie
Choreography: Vilma Pitrinaite
Performers: Vilma Pitrinaite, Romain Pierre, You Jin Choi/Duncan Evennou
Dramaturgy: Thomas Pondevie
Scenography: Zoé Bouchicot
Costumes: Lorenzo Albani
Video and light design: Fanny Perreau
Music: Florian Méneret
Premiered within the School of Théâtre National de Strasbourg, 2013
Performed in the festival JT14/Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris and festival Premières/Maillon European Scene, Strasbourg, 2014
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/63941122