Anatomia

Concept, creation, performance : Claudine Simon ; Sound  : Laurent Sassi ;  Scenography : Rudy Decelière ; outside view : Pau Simon ; Piano luthery : Thomas Garcin ; Stage and general management : Théo Vacheron

Creation at Musica Festival – 28-29 September 2023 – Strasbourg

Anatomia is a piano recital and an exhibition. Franz Liszt’s Funérailles, a virtuoso romantic piece composed in memory of three friends who died during the Hungarian revolution of 1848, is performed. Then the world-instrument opens up, as if to give us a better view of the music through it. In the darkness of a concert hall that has become an anatomical theatre, we witness a surreal scene. The piano is dissected, deconstructed, dismembered. Still resonating, its organs suspended in space seem endowed with life. In the manner of science fiction, we have shrunk to penetrate the labyrinths of the instrument, while our listening has widened and melted into the details of the sound painting.

CREATION in 2023 at the Musica festival in Strasbourg

Dates in 2025: April 2-3 at Maison de la Musique, Nanterre; May 7 at ZEF Scène Nationale, Marseille, with GMEM’s Propagations festival.

Dates in 2024: Théâtre de Vanves; Opéra de Dijon Ici l’onde-CNCM; Festival Détours de babels, Hexagone Scène Nationale de Meylan; Opéra underground (Lyon); Opéra de Reims – Césaré-CNCM; Espace Malraux Scène Nationale Chambéry Savoie

AURIS ⌊ sound and stage productions ⌉

Prize-winning project of “Mondes Nouveaux” DGCA – Ministry of Culture; of the Beaumarchais-SACD foundation, la Maison de la Musique Contemporaine, the SACEM

Co-production : Espace Malraux Scène Nationale Chambéry ; ici l’onde Dijon, Théâtre de Vanves – DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes ; Support and residency: GMEM-CNCM Marseille, Why Note ici l’onde, Espace Malraux Scène Nationale Chambéry, Scène Nationale d’Orléans, Opéra underground, Pianos Baruth

 

Photos © Rudy Decelière