performance
Hippolyte Hentgen (FR) Les Géomètres
Monsters & Geometry
The circle, the cube, the sphere ... The French artists duo Gaëlle Hippolyte and Lina Hentgen have clearly paid attention in their geometry lessons. Both have been highly active for years with surreal drawings. This significant production was increasingly used in sets, installations, and sculptures. And now there is the duo’s first performance. With the French dramatist, Philippe Quesne as coach, already known within the Beursschouwburg, the duo created a silent world where their cartoon-like characters come to life. The set is a piece of white paper and the objects form the animation. The tension of the geometric figures is balanced in the performance by a few multi-coloured monsters …
In Language no problem
40'
Concept: Hippolyte Hentgen
With: Jung-Ae Kim, Yvan Clédat, Hendrik Hegray
Decor construction and technical director: Yvan Clédat
Costumes: Perrine Lenaert, Corine Petitpierre
Artistic and technical advice: Philippe Quesne
Executive producer: Vivarium Studio
Coproduction: CONNECT CONNECT
CONNECT CONNECT is a production network for artistic collaboration, proposed by mentors,
Alain Platel, René Pollesch, Philippe Quesne and Ong Ken Seng
CONNECT CONNECT is an initiative of the Spielart theatre festival (Munich)
in collaboration with Campo (Ghent) Republique – Copenhagen , Forum Freies Theater – Dusseldorf,
Mercat de les Flors – Barcelona, Tanzquartier Wien – Vienna, Baltic Circle, Helsinki,
Theater im Pumpenhaaus – Munster and Münchner Kammerspiele.
With the support of: the European Commission, l’EPPGHV – Parc de la Villette, Paris
Première in November 2011 at the CONNECT CONNECT Festival / Spielart, Munich
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