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ORLANDO

New Paradigm Opera

Performative installation for seven movements, one voice and one horizon

Based on Virginia Woolf’s epic novel for an androgynous figure,
Imagined and created by Julie Beauvais & Horace Lundd

Filmed in Berlin, Kinshasa, Marfa, London, Varanasi, Lisbon, Chandolin, Patagonia, North Sea

 

Presented among others at the FIBA - Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires, at the Santiago a Mil Festival, at the Mostra Internacional de Teatro de São Paulo, at Operadagen in Rotterdam, at the European biennial Manifesta13 in Marseille, and recently on tour in India in Karnataka , Kerala and Manipur.

ORLANDO is an opera of a new kind, a performative installation combining conscious movement, video installation, architecture and live sound/music performance. 

Julie Beauvais choreographs conscious movements with Orlandos of today, embodying the post-binary new paradigm around the world. Deep Listening is here used as a means of revelation, enabling an expanded awareness, a clairvoyance.

Horace Lundd chooses vast horizon lines to capture these essential movements at the Blue Hour. She films fragments destined to later form a continuum and to create the Orlandos common breathing. 

They called on the architects Sibylle Kössler and Wynd van der Woude to develop a scenographic device that allows the videos to be projected simultaneously, side by side, connecting the seven horizons in one. As well as to the composer Christophe Fellay to create an open score for sound artists invited to re-invent the ORLANDO experience during each performance.

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Cast & crew

Artistic Direction, Choreography: Julie Beauvais
Artistic Direction, Video DoP: Horace Lundd
Score Composition and Sound: Christophe Fellay
Scenographic Design: Sibylle Kössler - Formerykössler, Wynd van der Woude - Index Architectes

Created with and performed by: Michael John Harper, Orakle Ngoy, Winsome Brown, Carolyn Cowan, Nyima, Diego Bagagal, August Schaltenbrand, Natalia Chami, Valentina Bordenave, Frans W.M. Franssens

Video Editing: Paul Gauthier
Video Color Grading: Marjolaine Mispelaere
Wood Engineering: Rémy Meylan - Whood X Mug
Media Technology: Zinzoline Sarl, Des Choses Pareilles
Technical Direction: BadNewsFromTheStars*
Administration: Sarah Bétrisey
Press: Florence Proton
Translation: Alexa Gruber, Lydia Stevens

Guests sound artists

NaH - USA

Apollo Noir - FR

Bartira - BR

Meryll Ampe - FR

Yannick Barman - CH

Joëlle Léandre - FR

Cesar Bernal - CL

Chaoba Thyiam - IN

Guillermina Etkin - AR

Leonel Kaplan - AR

Sir o Sir - DE

Charlotte Hug - CH

eRikm - FR

Yashas Shetty - IN

Tour

2018-2019

Preview - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL - (CH) with Christophe Fellay

Opening - La Bâtie, Festival de Genève (CH) with NAH, Annina Gieré

Dock 11 & EDEN*****, Berlin (DE) with Sir o Sir

REGIONAL19, Kalt, Strasbourg (FR) with Apollo Noir

Ferme-Asile, centre artistique et culturel Sion (CH) with Charlotte Hug, Yannick Barman

Rotterdam Operadagen Festival (NL) with Joëlle Léandre, Yannick Barman

2020

Santiago a Mil Festival (CL) with Cesar Bernal

FIBA-Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires (AR) with Leonel Kaplan, Guillermina Etkin

MITsp-Mostra Internacional de Teatro de São Paulo (BR) with Bartira

Val d’Anniviers, Chandolin (CH) with Yannick Barman

Manifesta 13 - Les Parallèles du Sud, Curated by gmem-CNCN-Marseille, Marseille (FR) with Meryll Ampe, eRikm

2022-2023

Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, Kerala (IN) with Yashas Shetty

The Giving Tree, Matai, Imphal, Manipur (IN) with Chaoba Thyiam

Charshung Phungreitang, Ukhrul, Manipur (IN) with Chaoba Thyiam

Zaishin Dance Rooftop, Ukhrul, Manipur (IN) with Chaoba Thyiam

Yumpham Arts Space, Imphal, Manipur (IN) with Chaoba Thyiam

Goethe Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka (IN) with Yashas Shetty​

Partners

Production: BadNewsFromTheStars* - CH, Horace Lundd - FR

Coproduction: La Bâtie, Festival de Genève - CH

Partners: LAPIS/EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - CH, Accélérateur de Particules Strasbourg - FR, Sandbox Collective - IN

Soutiens: Pro Helvetia - Fondation suisse pour la culture, Pro Helvetia South America - COINCIDENCIA Program, Pro Helvetia New Delhi

CNC - Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image animée - dispositif DICRéAM aide au développement, CNC - Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image animée - dispositif DICRéAM aide à la production, DRAC - Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Grand Est - aide individuelle à la création, Région Grand Est - soutien à la création du spectacle vivant et des arts visuels, Loterie Romande Vaud, Loterie Romande Valais, Canton du Valais - service de la culture, Ville de Genève - département des finances et du logement, HEAR - Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin, NAF - Nachom Arts Foundation, Sandbox Collective, Goethe Institutes Bangalore, BNM - Ballet National de Marseille, gmem-CNCN-Marseille

Thanks

Alexa Gruber, Christine Marsan, Caroline Dayer, Nicola Braghieri, Sara Formery, Manon Fantini, Laurent Chassot, Camille Cottagnoud, Ingrid Beauvais, Amélie Rouyer, Roland Sprenger, Monique Sprenger, Nicole Mudry, Rinah Läng, Susanne Steffen, Ulla Klingovsky, Arthur Debert, Chloé Grunhertz, Iris Aubry, Wilfried Luzele, Lucille De Witte Luzele, Paty Masiapa , Mega Minigiedi, Yves Sambu, Andee Radu, Aziz Friedrich, Rainer Judd, Agnès Cremel, Shabari Rao, Anitha Santhanam, Namgyal Taklha, Tribhuwan Chauhan, Anouk Jacob, Martim Dinis, Matilde Menezes Ferreira, Cristina Tavares, Tomás Maia, Mariana Brandão, António Câmara Manuel, Gwendolyn Jenkins, Solam, Céline Golaz, Florence Guignard, Lucrèce Minuty, Joël Zufferey, Julia Moroge, Marine Ventura, Viviane Lima, Philippe Biollaz, Lyvia Papilloud, Lauryline, Jean-Luc Torrent, Bastien Charvoz, Rita Bonvin, Lisa Biedlingmaier, Moritz Finkbeiner, Alex Scobie, Karin Denoual, Rut and Carlos Chami, Metty Franssens, Ella van der Woude, Luciano Percara, Shariff Korver, Celia Jesupret, Daniel Alvarez, Shiva Pathak, Nimie Ravindran, Surjit Nongmeikapam, Lucky Lersmo, Shantanu Heisnam, Ring Wong, Tombi, Haonao

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