ORLANDO
NEW PARADIGM OPERA
IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION, 2017/2020
Performative installation for seven movements, one voice and one horizon
based on Virginia Woolf’s epic novel for an androgynous figure.
Collaboration with Julie Beauvais
ORLANDO is a hybrid opera, an immersive experience combining conscious
movement, video installation, architecture and live music performance.
Julie Beauvais choreographs expansive slow movements with seven precursors.
These 'Orlandos' of today embody the post-binary new paradigm in Berlin,
Kinshasa, Marfa, London, Varanasi, Belo Horizonte-Lisboa, Chandolin, Patagonia, North Sea.
Horace Lundd films this ample, essential gesture at the blue hour,
in a vast outdoors setting.
The architects of EPFL design a set allowing the videos to be projected
simultaneously, side by side, connecting the seven horizon lines into one.
ORLANDO, itinerant opera, travels lightly by being rebuilt with local materials.
Christophe Fellay creates an audio+graphic score that can be interpreted
by any musician across the world.
Local artists join the adventure and are invited to play in ORLANDO.
ORLANDO connects artists, scientists and audiences at the heart
of today’s social evolution towards collaborative organisations,
beyond stereotypes, prejudice and stigmatisation.
Production BadNewsFromTheStars* CH, Horace Lundd FR
Coproduction La Bâtie - Festival de Genève - GE, CH
Associates LAPIS/EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Accélérateur de Particules Strasbourg
Support and partners CNC - Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image animée - dispositif DICREAM Aide au développement et Aide à la production (FR), Pro Helvetia - Fondation Suisse pour la Culture (CH), Pro Helvetia COINCIDENCIA - Échanges culturels Suisse-Amérique du Sud, DRAC - Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Grand Est - aide individuelle à la création (FR), Région Grand Est - Soutien à la création du spectacle vivant et des arts visuels (FR), Loterie Romande Vaud (CH), Loterie Romande Valais (CH), Canton du Valais - Service de la Culture(CH), Ville de Genève - Département des Finances et du Logement (CH), HEAR - Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin de Strasbourg (FR).
ORLANDO TOUR
2018-2019
Preview Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL - (CH)
Première La Bâtie, Festival de Genève (CH) / guest musicians NAH, Annina Gieré 09.2018
Dock 11 & EDEN*****, Berlin (DE) / guest musician Sir o Sir
REGIONAL19, Kalt, Strasbourg (FR) / guest musician Apollo Noir
Ferme-Asile, centre artistique et culturel Sion (CH) / guest musicians Charlotte Hug, Yannick Barman
Rotterdam Operadagen Festival (NL) / guest musicians Joëlle Léandre, Yannick Barman
Shrishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology - Bangalore, IN 12.2019
2020-2021
South America tour, jan-mar.2020
Kunstverein Wagenhalle, Stuttgart (DE) 06.2020
India tour, dec.2020-feb.2021
Community tour
EPFL+ECAL lab - Lausanne, CH
Ecoles du secondaire II, canton de Genève - GE, CH (Ecole & Culture, DIP Genève)
Bureau de l'Egalité, canton de Genève (Genève Ville Durable) - GE, CH
Centre de la Roseraie, Genève - CH
LISPA - London International School of Performing Arts - Berlin DE
Etincelles de Culture et le Lycée-Collège des Creusets de Sion - VS, CH
HES_SO Valais - CH
Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology - Bangalore, IN
Support and partners (on going) Institut Français de Kinshasa, Ambassade de Suisse en République démocratique du Congo, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology - Bangalore, India.
CAST & CREW
Director Choreography Julie Beauvais
Director of Photography Horace Lundd
Music and Sounds Composition Christophe Fellay
Created with and moved by MJ Harper, Orakle Ngoy, Winsome Brown, Carolyn Cowan, Nyima, Diego Bagagal, August Schaltenbrand,
Natalia Chami, Valentina Bordenave, Frans W.M. Franssens
Videos editing Paul Gauthier
Videos color grading Marjolaine Mispelaere
Set design Sibylle Kössler - Formerykössler, Wynd van der Woude - Index Architectes
Plans, maquettes, prototypes, tests Gaëlle Claude, Adrien Dauvillier, Sophie Le Meillour
Wood engineering Rémy Meylan - Whood X Mug
Video medias Zinzoline Sarl
Technical direction BadNewsFromTheStars*
Administration Sarah Bétrisey
Press Florence Proton
Texts translation Alexa Gruber
WORKSHOPS AND RESEARCH in EPFL+ECAL lab supported by LAPIS - Laboratoire des art pour les sciences / EPFL
Valérian Bitschnau, Viorela Bogatu, Elodie Bricout, Loïc Chevalley, Raphael Delmue, Tania Depallens, Justine Estoppey, Marianne Ghorayeb, Morgane Hofstetter, Agathe Mignon, Nina Mosca, Victor Müller, Catherine Nachbar, Viola Poli, François Salmona, Isabel Schmid, Katia Schmit, Lucia Bordone, Clelia Vuille
Lectures and talks
EPFL - LAPIS - Architecture by Nicola Braghieri, Mécanismes du regard by Luca Ortelli
EPFL - LNCO - Extracorporalité, perceptions, conscience et neurosciences by Baptiste Gauthier
EPFL - LEMA - Espace(s) acoustique(s) by Hervé Lissek
Partitions acoustiques et partitions graphiques by Christophe Fellay
UNIGE - Musicologie, La rhétorique de la folie de Roland dans l’histoire de l’opéra by Brenno Boccadoro
UNIGE - Institut des études genre, La triade sexe-genre-sexualité – éprouver, questionner, clarifier, décloisonner by Dre Caroline Dayer
THANKS
Sincere thanks and deep gratitude to Nicola Braghieri, Sara Formery, Manon Fantini, Laurent Chassot, Andee and Aziz Radu, Camille Cottagnoud, Ingrid Beauvais, Amélie Rouyer, Roland and Monique Sprenger, Nicole Mudry, Rinah Läng, Susanne Steffen, Ulla Klingovsky,
Arthur Debert, Chloé Grunhertz, Iris Aubry, Petersburg Art Space Berlin, Lucille De Witte, Wilfried Luzele, Mega Mingiedi, 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,
Céline Golaz, Florence Guignard, Lucrèce Minuty, Danièle Gasparini, Joël Zufferey, Julia Moroge, Marine Ventura, Viviane Lima,
Camille Cottagnoud, 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
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