Lagune Creation

Lagune Creation

The Fluxum Foundation and the Flux Laboratory have presented a special program of cultural events to join in the celebration of the 2016 DADA centenary.

The centerpiece of the celebration is Lagune a work directed by artist Denis Savary, in collaboration with choreographer Jérémy Tran. The performance unfolds around a marionette inspired by the work by Sophie Taeuber-Arp, The Robot King. It is recreated for the occasion and animated by puppeteer Evelyne Villaime. The performance is accompanied by an original soundtrack including sound archives from the AIMP (Archives internationales de musique populaire) from the Geneva Ethnographic Museum. 
Lagune reconstructs a city on the water, the imaginary kingdom of the Robot King, either on stage or in an open space. The various facades and walls of the city are mobile, continually moved about by six dancers. The city will appear to be beaten back by an imaginary sea swell arising out of thin air from the dancers’ breaststrokes. We want this production to be as modular and scalable as possible, so it will be performed in varied locations with unexpected settings, adapting itself each time to the site hosting it.

It has been presented first in various institutions in Zurich, the birthplace of Dadaism, at the Swiss Cultural Center in Paris, then in Geneva at Flux Laboratory and the Ethnographic Museum, before heading to Athens, for a final on the rooftop of the National Museum of Contemporary Arts.

Dates:

02/04/2016 - 18h - SIK ISEA Zürich - performance "Lagune" and conference by the curators of the exhibition  "Dadaglobe Reconstructed", Dr. Adrian Sudhalter and Cathérine Hug (Kunsthaus Zürich).
02/05/2016 - 19h - Völkerkundemuseum Zürich
02/10/2016 - 19h - Cabaret Voltaire Zürich
02/11/2016 - 19h - Flux Laboratory Zürich
03/22-23 - 20h - Centre Culturel Suisse Paris
04/21/2016 - 19h - Flux Laboratory Geneva
05/13-14-15/2016 - 19h - MEG (Musée d'Ethnographie Genève)

05/19/2016 - 20h - National Museum of Contemporary Arts of Athens

Distribution :

Director: Denis Savary
Choreographer: Jérémy Tran
Artistic advisor and sound: Daphné Bengoa
Puppeteer: Evelyne Villaime
Dancers: Alizée Duvernois, Ambre Duband, Laurent Le Gall, Leandro Villavicencio, Paul Girard
Scenography: Denis Savary et Juliette Roduit
Costumes: Vanessa Schindler
Technical: Luc Job
Production and management:Fondation Fluxum et Flux Laboratory
Documentary: Daphné Bengoa

Distribution in Athens:

Director: Denis Savary
Choreographer: Makella Manioladi
Assistant Choreographer: Pierre Magendie
Artistic advisor and Sound Designer: Daphné Bengoa
Puppeteer: Evelyne Villaime
Dancers: Anastasios Koukoutas, Gabriela Antonopoulou, Aris Papadopoulos, Ioanna Toumpakari, Yannis Tsigkris, Eleni Andreoulaki, Maro Stavrinou
Scenography: Denis Savary and Juliette Roduit
Costumes: Vanessa Schindler
Technical: Luc Job
Production and management: Fluxum Foundation and Flux Laboratory
Documentary: Daphné Bengoa