„Soeurs d’armes“ (Sisters in arms) is a singular piece of musical performance and theatre. Through narration and song, a young woman's story is told. I recount decisive encounters during my suburban teenage years in secondary school. It was then that other young women helped me...
OBJET D'HIVER is the title of my art residency in Sept-Nov 2016 followed by a solo exhibition in Nov-Jan 2017 at the Gallery Langage Plus in Alma (Québec, Canada). PANACHE is the collective exhibition about Québec I took part in Feb-May 2017, at the FRAC in Sélestat (Alsace, France). About...
Theater laboratory in Québec, Canada The first chapter of research for a new theater piece: Un opéra de papier (a paper opera) by Le Fil rouge théâtre. How to speak about death and loss to children and elderly persons at the same time? What are the rituals, the music, the special...
Singing apparition in the role of Lale Andersen's Lili Marlene (1939) by the ARTE documentary Beloved Enemy - The history of French-German relations. Directors: Christel Fomm and Martin Carazo-Mendes for Gruppe 5 Filmproduction (Cologne). --- More on ARTE Chanel....
"Madame rêve" is a performance about all the plurality of women inside me, where I recall both the good and bad encounters that have made me a woman. "One is not born, but rather becomes a woman" said Simone de Beauvoir. True, but which one? (FR) LES FEMMES EN...
Les passantes (the elderly) is a performance about old women's souvenirs in a retirement home. About the act of taking care and the fear of being forgotten. An old song with half of the lyrics missing. --- Presented at the gallery Apollonia Art Exchanges in Strasbourg (2008) and on a theater stage...
A performance about grandparents' portraits taken as both side of the same story. About the difficulty of transmission and the weight of familial history. A story of nails refusing to hang properly on the wall. And an old Bulgarian song, both sweet and violent, as the remembrance's trigger. --- Presented at the gallery Apollonia...
A performance about the little red riding hood, losing the way back home and a truck accident in the forest. Inspired by Charles Perrault well-known fairy tale and Klaus Nomi powerful interpretation of "A cold song" (Purcell). --- Presented at the gallery Apollonia Art Exchanges and at Zone d'art in Strasbourg. More to...
In "Black-Blanc-Biche" I recall my own teenage years where a girl has to act and dress up like a man to go out in the suburbs. The old traditional song "La complainte de la blanche biche" tells the story of a girl hunted by her own...
In October 2005, two kids died from electrocution by hiding in a power station to avoid a police interrogation, resulting in a power blackout. The incident ignited rising tensions about youth unemployment and police harassment in the poorer housing estates of French suburbs, resulting in weeks of...