Sunday, Sept 8 / 19:30 / THE NATIONAL CENTER OF DANCE BUCHAREST
Photo: David Huwiler
With the support of Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council
Les vagues is a choreographic, sound and visual solo.
Les vagues is a trialogue between a dancer, a sound designer and a visual art collective.
Les vagues is a poetic, multi-sensory experience.
The project began with a decisive encounter between Lucie Eidenbenz with Virginia Woolf's novel-poem The Waves.
From this reading and the inspiration it gave rise to the idea to work in detail on the states of the body to give shape to a choreography, in connection with sound creation and interactive video. The piece features these three mediums that respond to and interact with each other.
The text is the result of synesthetic writing, in which the senses intertwine. This same approach is favoured by this choreographic creation, where images, sounds and movements echo the poetry of the original text without illustrating it. The text is translated into a scenic and choreographic universe where the sensations conveyed to the spectators take over the narrative.
Artistic direction, choreography and dance: Lucie Eidenbenz
Sound creation and spatialization: Daniel Maszkowicz
Video: Robert Turner Collective
Production: Association Brøcøliwald
Outside eye: Pauline Huguet / Anna Iatsenko
Costume design: Aline Courvoisier
Recording and editing: David Huwiler
Photos: Magali Dougados
Hosted by: Mapping Festival Genève
Supported by City of Geneva, Ernst Goehner Stiftung, Schweizer Interpreten Stiftung
About Lucie Eidenbenz (CH)
Artist, choreographer, performer and dancer based in Geneva, Lucie Eidenbenz took the choreographic training course E.x.e.r.c.e, directed by Mathilde Monnier at the CCN in Montpellier. She pursued her education in Lausanne (Marchepied), Vienna (Danceweb), Paris (Transforme) and Brussels (A.p.a.s.s). Her main works, “Traum Project” (2010), “Animals are like water in water” (2011), “The Boiling Point” (2011), “Last Plays” (2014), “Tschägg” (2015-2018), “Faune, faune, faune” (2019-2024), “ECHOOO” (2022), “Why this now?” and “Les Vagues” (2023), went on tour in Switzerland and abroad in many renowned places and festivals.
She is part of the interdisciplinary and international artistic network Sweet & Tender Collaborations, for which she curated a four-week residency in Dampfzentrale, Bern, 2012. Lucie Eidenbenz holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arts at the University of Lausanne, and a Master’s degree in Arts and Politics, directed by Bruno Latour at Sciences Po Paris.