Le chant de l’arbre

Photos: Clémence Bélénus

LE CHANT DE L’ARBRE

Voice, dance, and poetry

from 2 years old

Conception and direction: Laurent Dupont

Interpretation: Astrid Fournier-Laroque, Yoann Piovoso and Paolo Provenzano

Text: Céline Bellanger

Music composition: Yoann Piovoso

Stage design: Patricia Lacoulonche

Lights design: Christian Goulin

Production: ACTA, conventioned company: Conseil départemental du Val d’Oise, City of Villiers-le-Bel. ACTA is subsidised by the DRAC Île-de-France through a territory convention, and by the Île-de-France Regional Council through an artistic permanence convention.

Co-productions: Villiers-le-Bel (95) | 2turvenhoog Festival

This production will be created in January 2024 in Villiers-le-Bel.

The first part of Laurent Dupont’s next diptych on the theme of trees, “Le chant de l’arbre” (“The tree’s song“) renews our view of the tree by placing it at the centre of artistic creation.

Sylva, a natural force that is at once earth, air, water and heat, takes up residence. She offers her natural elements to the world to give birth to an infinity of possible beings in the making. Through her song, she welcomes these little budding trees, an audience curious to discover nature – that already exists all around them – artistically and sensorially.

He is motionless, lying on a mossy bed. Solicited by Sylva’s song and words, his fingers awaken. They are the very first signs of a dance in the making. Slow and uninterrupted, it continues until He can rise, tall and majestic, swayed by the thousand branches of his body.

Between song and dance, image and sound interpreted live, a whole poetic and choreographic ecosystem is born.

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I experienced the performance twice: the first time in a professional setting with a family whose world is far removed from that of live performance. The two little girls present, parachuted into this new and enchanting universe, were captivated, as if suspended in the poetic and enchanting atmosphere of this enchanted forest.
And the second was with my children, who were much more used to the exercise (but just as suspended and spellbound).
I was able to take the time to look at the faces of the spectators (something I don’t usually do, as I’m too focused on the artists and the enchantment of the stage). I looked at the children’s expressions first, and their dazzled, laughing eyes.
But in the soft half-light of this peaceful forest, I was especially struck by the expressions of the adults: the blissful smiles, the amazement in their eyes… And this image came to me spontaneously: that’s where the magic of this forest really was. Alongside the trees and the friendly spirits, we all came here, whatever our age, to ‘rediscover our childlike spirit’…

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