Performance, festival, novel. This week’s editorial-suggested top things to see and read.
The end of silence
“Shame has not changed sides, those who dominate continue to be proud of it. But the loneliness is over,” Christine Angot warns. The MeToo movement has been there… In 1999, the author published Incest. The book is paved in silence. We are informed that his father subjected him to incest since he was 14 years old. Back in 2012 A week offthen in 2021 Journey to the East, Christine Angot returns to incest, this family, psychological, anthropological disaster. He illuminates the gray areas, changes the point of view, emphasizing control, dominance, power. Sad tiger, Neige Sino’s book from this literary season, is a remarkable extension of it. Very good news. Journey to the East adapted for the theater. The Courage of Truth by Christine Angot, who tirelessly returns to facts, actions, words. The radicalism and risk-taking of Stanislas Nordey, the director and former director of the National Theater of Strasbourg. There is no doubt that a stage with performers like Cécile Brun and Claude Duparfe will make the clinical and uncompromising language, this retrospective strain, audible. Public communal theater. LC:
Journey to the Eastfrom November 28 to December 8, at the National Theater of Strasbourg, then on tour, from March 1 to 15 at the Nanterre-Amandiers Theater.
Shall we dance later?
Under the new direction of Didier Deschamps, the Cannes Dance Festival will occupy no fewer than 13 stages (Palais des Festivals, Grasse, Nice, Fréjus, etc.) to welcome 27 companies from 13 countries for the new edition. placed under the sign of youth and joy of living. Premiering this 24th season is MOV’IN Cannes, a dance film competition hosted by Matilda May. In the program. we are electrified In the hair folliclesCreation to music by Sharon Eyal and Guy Behar without core In the festive atmosphere of a wild, magical night, in dresses designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri, artistic director of Christian Dior. So chic! Then we have fun Security to the end Musical and acrobatic choreography by Antoine Le Minstrel (and his troupe) in tribute to Harold Lloyd during the attack on the Los Angeles building. This fun remake will take place in front of the Cannes cinema. Impressive. We remember the fiery and iconic Ida Rubinstein, empress of Russian ballet and Sergei Diaghilev’s muse, who dared to strip in the Dance of the Seven Veils. In Ida Don’t Cry Me Love, Lara Barsak makes it an allusion to humor and freedom. A musical and sometimes naked show. After all, we dance Dub:, by Amala Dianor. Eleven young performers and a musician take us to the four corners of the world to discover 2.0 urban dances that make the nightlife vibrate. So, onward to the bounce, ballroom, hell, jockey and pants that are all the rage on social media. BB:
Cannes Dance Festival, November 24 to December 10. festivaldedanse-cannes.com
Romantic rodeo
Crazy things. A desperate and funny epic. A hallucinatory love story. A completely crazy, romantic, melancholic, dreamy road movie. Darlene, who lives on a boat in Poissy, sets out with her daughter to find Lennon, her childhood friend and also his girlfriend, who has gone to Belgium to be sterilized, something she wants to prevent at all costs. This novel on this difficult theme of masculinity in crisis finds its flight thanks to a very musical and rhythmic writing, similar to slam. We hear the novel as much as we read it, the magic works in every paragraph, and Darlene’s desperate search, who meets all kinds of colorful characters along the way, including a community of artists or feminists, becomes a hypnotic gesture of song. Where her wild dreams and sexual fantasies collide in a stunning saraband. Also very disturbing is the presence of Darlene’s daughter, which actually feels more like an absence. Something is wrong, a tragedy has happened to this motherhood, the extent of which we will understand only at the end. But if Darlene is lost, she’s a great loser because she doesn’t give up on love, no matter what the cost. On the way to Antwerp, Darlene reminisces about her life with Lennon on the two Orléans jazz concert boats she inherited from her father, nicknamed The Captain. So it is the spirit of the bayou that the author mischievously transports to Poissy that creates the welcome strangeness of these breathtaking wanderings and this constantly surprising writing. IP:
Don’t cry on meFrom Samuel Lebon, Éditions Le Dilettante, 154 p., €16.
Source: Le Figaro
