EXTRA LIFE

Gisèle Vienne

March 16 – 17, 2024

ITALIAN PREMIERE

Running time 120’

A brother and a sister find each other at a party after twenty years of separation. United by a strong bond since their childhood, they were then separated by an unresolved family tragedy. Now, as adults, they are able to fully understand their experience of trauma, as they discover what really happened and rethink their future together. Through a dramatic approach and subversive humor, Gisèle Vienne, one of the most influential European artists, choreographers and directors, returns to Triennale with a piece that engages with the suppression of traumatic experience and its subsequent resurfacing. This is a strongly emotional production which combines theatre, dance and music, exquisitely composed by Caterina Barbieri.

Gisèle Vienne is a franco-austrian artist, choreographer and director. After graduating in Philosophy, she studied at the puppeteering school Ecole Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette. Over the past 20 years, her work has been touring in Europe and regularly performed in Asia and in America among which, I Apologize (2004), Kindertotenlieder (2007), Jerk (2008), This is how you will disappear (2010), LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011), The Ventriloquists Convention (2015) in collaboration with Puppentheater Halle and Crowd (2017). In 2020, she created with Etienne Bideau-Rey a fourth version of Showroomdummies at the Rohm Theater Kyoto, originally created in 2001. In 2021, she made the film Jerk and created L’Etang, a show based Robert Walser’s short story Der Teich. Gisèle Vienne has frequently been exhibiting her photographs and installations in museums among which the New York Whitney Museum, the Centre Pompidou Paris. Her work has led to various publications and the original music of her shows to several albums.

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Performance in French with Italian and English surtitles. The surtitles include information for people with hearing disabilities. Performance for adult audiences. Themes and scenes may upset the audience.

EXTRA LIFE involves the presence of smoke, the use of lasers and total darkness in the hall.
For emergencies or reports, the teather staff is fully available.

Credits

conception, choreography, direction, scenography: Gisèle Vienne
created in collaboration and performed by: Adèle Haenel, Theo Livesey, Katia Petrowick
original music: Caterina Barbieri
sound design: Adrien Michel
lights: Yves Godin
texts: Adèle Haenel, Theo Livesey, Katia Petrowick, Gisèle Vienne
costumes Gisèle Vienne, Camille Queval, FrenchKissLA
puppet making: Etienne Bideau-Rey, Nicolas Herlin
stage manager: Antoine Hordé, Philippe Deliens
sound manager: Adrien Michel, Géraldine Foucault Voglimacci
light manager: Samuel Dosière, Iannis Japiot, Héloïse Evano
thanks to: Elsa Dorlin, Etienne Hunsinger, Sandra Lucbert, Romane Rivol, Anja Röttgerkamp, Sabrina Lonis, Maya Masse
assistant: Sophie Demeyer
technical director: Erik Houllier
production and touring: DACM, Company Gisèle Vienne, Alma Office – Anne-Lise Gobin, Camille Queval, Andrea Kerr
administration Cloé Haas, Giovanna Rua
coproduction: Ruhrtriennale, Théâtre National de Bretagne – Centre Européen Théâtral et Chorégraphique, MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, MC2: Grenoble – Scène nationale, Théâtre national de Chaillot, Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne, Tandem - Scène nationale de Douai, Points Communs – Nouvelle Scène nationale de Cergy Pontoise, CN D Centre national de la danse, Comédie de Genève, Le Volcan – Scène nationale du Havre, Centre Culturel André Malraux- Scène nationale de Vandoeuvre lès Nancy, NTGent, Cité européenne du théâtre Domaine d’O Montpellier, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Comédie de Clermont, International Summer Festival Kampnagel – Hamburg, Triennale Milano – Milan, Tanzquartier Wien, La Filature, Scène nationale de Mulhouse
with the support of: Dance Reflections by Van Cleef and Arpels
the company Gisèle Vienne is supported by: Ministère de la culture et de la Communication – DRAC Grand Est, Région Grand Est, Ville de Strasbourg, Institut Français (international touring)
Gisèle Vienne is associated artist at TNB – Théâtre National de Bretagne, at Chaillot – théâtre national de la danse, at MC2 Grenoble, at Volcan - Scène nationale du Havre

With the support of Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati – Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea