REFACE
France2023
Recommended age: 10+
REFACE is a physical and musical research based on the idea of transformation, deformation and change of materials. Everything is in transition: our bodies, memory, the social environment, nature, relationships, political system… Movement permeates everything, preventing the creation of definitive, straightforward forms. We work on this instability on an intimate scale, since faces and emotions are troubled and plural.
REFACE is a place to play, pretend to be someone else, adopt the postures, looks and facial expressions of our idols and ghosts. We move from animal to color, from the obsolete to the contemporary, from the star to the banal. Who is she/he? What is this? A ghost or a vampire? A child or an old person? Laughter or terror? Difficult to answer. Nothing is fixed or named. All is confusion and illusion. Games and tricks. Cinema and lies.
Chandra Grangean is a choreographic artist of Franco-Venezuelan origin. She worked as a performer with various choreographers, including Ambra Senatore, La Fabrique Fastidieuse, Ali Moini, Le Pole, Maud le Pladec and Maguy Marin. At the same time, Chandra develops her own research work in collaboration with Tom Grand Mourcel, Martin Malatray-Ravit and Lise Messina.
Lise Messina trained in contemporary dance at the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieur de Lyon, then at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen (Germany). At the same time, she took a degree in philosophy at the Université Paris Nanterre, then obtained a master’s degree in dramaturgy at the ENS in Lyon, where she interned with Lia Rodrigues in Maré (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) before joining the Compagnie Maguy Marin as a performer.
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