B A R B A R EEuropean Museum of Translation

ZONE — POÈME —

BARBARE | European Museum of Translation is a 28 episodes performance. Composed in relation with the 28 countries of the European Union, these episodes examine the foundations, the figures and phantasms of our culture, past and present. Dance solo, theatre play, concert, visual installation, film, performance etc, every episode (lasting maximum 20 minutes) combines to others to offer an organic travel, a journey on the ghost ship of barbarity.

We start from this point : there is no possibility of a universal language and build union in diversity (in varietate concordia). The European Union needs an open culture, made of sensations, structures, territories, and images that reveal the beauty of journeys, of border crossing, of the openness to the Other. This rich experience should be verse in forms of representation, in order to build new models, other languages, to mix forms and arts, and therefore, translate.

« The language of Europe is translation. » Umberto Eco

« To translate is to represent. » Antoine Vitez

CREATION 2021

In 2014, Simon Capelle leads a personal research around several important moments of the History of the twentieth century. He invites young people of his age to come with him in France, Poland and the United States. The documentation collected during the process allows him to question the transmission of History to young people and the traces left by events or ideas of the past on our lives. A singular concept emerges : barbarity, and the way it dialogues with the construction of civilization. Simon Capelle, who studied Humanities, links the dialogue between violence and identity in our contemporary world to the problematics in Antiquity and tragedy.

In the same time, since 2016, Mélodie Lasselin leads a profound research on the place of imaginary developed or suffered in the body and the choreographic gesture. She tries to clean her dance in order to let emerge what has not yet been made or instructed. This radical way which proposes to get rid of an inherited writing to welcome the unknown crosses the themes on which the two artists work together. Touched by the aspects Dionysiacs of dance, but also forged by a rigorous discipline, Mélodie Lasselin questions the signs of representation of which the body is capable at the border with the language, and the traces that these forms leave in us. As performers, their aim is real-time sharing, discovery and collective experience.

A strong contemporary theme : Barbarity

This creation starts in 2014 during a visit of Auschwitz-Birkenau with a young polish, Marius. How to speak, how to imagine what is not there anymore, what is missing, if we don’t realize of this emptiness, of this absence ?

Mélodie Lasselin and Simon Capelle both encountered dance and theater. From 2010 and on, and by meeting various stage directors and choreographers, like Jan Lauwers, Jan Fabre, Lisbeth Gruwez, their research turns to performance, where it is on stage or on sites and outside. The two artists combine a research on language with a choreographic development, giving all latitude to the imaginary, from within the gesture, the spoken word.

— 1 — DEUTSCHLAND

— 2 — ÖSTERREICH

— 3 — BELGIQUE | BELGIË | BELGIEN

— 4 — BALGARIJA

— 5 — KYPROS

— 6 — HRVATSKA

— 7 — DANMARK

— 8 — ESPAÑA

— 9 — EESTI

— 10 — SUOMI

— 11 — FRANCE

— 12 — ELLADA

— 13 — MAGYARORSZAG

— 14 — IRELAND | EIRE

— 15 — ITALIA

— 16 — LATVIJA

— 17 — LIETUVA

— 18 — LUXEMBOURG | LUXEMBURG

— 19 — MALTA

— 20 — NEDERLAND

— 21 — POLSKA

— 22 — REPUBLICA PORTUGUESA

— 23 — CESKA REPUBLIKA

— 24 — ROMÂNIA

— 25 — UNITED KINGDOM

— 26 — SLOVENSKO

— 27 — SLOVENIJA

— 28 — SVERIGE

28 episodes

Created

Work in progress

To create

Travel to doThe KATALOG enlists all BARBARE’s episodes with an intention note, the categories of the repertory (aesthetic, geographic, main theme), as well as a video link.

Propositions and possible representations

THE MUSEUMAll the 28 episodes = 9h20

THE GALLERY3 or 4 episodes = 1h or 1h20

THE COLLECTION14 episodes = 2 times 2h20

THE EXHIBITIONOne episode a day for one month

The cost depends of the number of episodesMeeting with the audience (workshops, talks etc.)

Technical rider on demand

« We go and meet Europe : to discover forgotten countries, to drift from one end of the old continent to the other, to meet

the cultural specialists and non-specialists of each country. We walk a lot, we bring the material back into a room, shape it from our

harvests. We want to repeat, show and modify. We want encounters, a living material mixed

with subjectivity, stories. We like to work everywhere: in a theater, a museum, a park, the train, the forest, at home, here, there. »

ZONE — POÈME —

A trans-discipline adventure

Mélodie and Simon work with musicians, photographs, visual artists, scenographs to conceive a space between the museum and the stage. A living space always moving, where everything is realized in front of the audience to share the experience of translation, give the possibility to everyone to perceive the necessary processus of the transformation of episodes.

Every episode has its own color and a precise sound work, using atmospheres, interviews, talks, etc, recorded during travels. A place thought to dialogue between bodies and space.

The collective research around BARBARE imagines a story in different episodes – performances or shows – questioning the relation to the Other inside all the countries of the European Union. An ephemera and nomad museum of living pieces of art, in an enterprise of translation, always moving, with the desire to welcome the passing of the audience, to allow them to see, to hear, to feel a poetical, political, commune Europe.

The team

CONCEPTION — TEXT — PERFORMANCE

Mélodie LASSELIN Simon CAPELLE

SOUND CREATION

Quentin CONRATEBaptiste LEGROS

LIGHTING

Caroline CARLIEZ

SET PHOTOGRAPHER

Martina POZZAN

FILMMAKING

Joseph DAVID

FURNITURE

Léo PACQUELET

ART COMMUNITY

Teresa ACEVEDO François FRIMAT

Maxence CAMBRONGurshad SHAHEMANOlivier TIRMARCHE

TRANSLATION

Klaudia KIJEK (Polish) Samuel FRISON (Flemish)

Anthi POLATIDOU, Clara NIZZOLI (Modern Greek)Roxane MAGAUT (German)

Camille RØNN (Danish)Valérie OBERLEITHNER (Austrian)

Līga POŽARSKA (Latvian)Petra BOREN-SUPPARO & Éric SUPPARO (Swedish)

Martina SEMAL KUBINSKA (Slovak)Alice HEATHWOOD (English)

VOICE

Selvia SKIERSKAMina GIANNOULI

Louise DEMEURISSEValérie OBERLEITHNER

Rebecca TETENS Klara THAM

Biographies

Since 2016 Simon and Mélodie are choreographers, writers, performers of the company ZONE -poème- based in Lille, France.

SIMON CAPELLE is a poet, performer and stage director.Born in 1987, he first studied classical dance and music.In 2010, he got a Master Degree with honors in both Modern Literature and Theatrical studies at the University of Lille-III. Starting from 2006, he discovered theatre on stage and get involved in numerous projects in France. In need of training from Europeans masters, he joined many workshops given at the Biennale di Venezia by Wajdi Mouawad, Pascal Rambert, Anne Bogart, Mark Ravenhill and Anna-Sophie Malher. In 2016, he published his first play Pur in La Fontaine Editions and his first novel Tes yeux cosmos in Belladone Editions. That same year represents a turning point in his work as he get interested in performance and visual arts. Chosen by Jan Fabre, he is invited to a one month masterclass in Antwerpen, then participated in a workshop in 2018 with Jan Fabre and his performers.In 2019, his poem Porno is published in Frictions n°31 and his poem Rovina in the review Ver(r)ue. Together with Mélodie Lasselin, he joined the show Sit on it by Annabelle Chambon and Cédric Charron in La Ménagerie de Verre in Paris.. In 2020 his texts L’ennemi du théâtre and Idiot (zone -XIV-) are published in Frictions n°32.

MÉLODIE LASSELIN is a dancer, performer and choreograph. Born in 1983, she stupide dance at the school of Ballet du Nord, at l’Ecole-Atelier Rudra-Béjart and at the Jeune Ballet International de Cannes. During those years she learn both classical and contemporary repertoirs, discovered indian dance, the Martha Graham technique, the kendo, singing, theatre and drums. She then worked in Germany (Stadttheater Giessen) for four years, where she created her first performances. Starting from 2007 she became a free-lance dancer and choreograph in Switzerland, in Germany, in Spain, in Mexico, in Cuba, in Belgium and in France. She started to teach dance after obtaining the grade of dance teacher in Centre National de la Danse de Lyon in 2008.She worked in various companies such as Compagnie Irène K, Compagnie Talus, Ballet du Nord, Artissés, and joined the performances of Karima Mansour, Germaine Acogny, Hiroshi Wakamatsu, Olivier Dubois, and Nacera Belaza. She took part in numerous workshops with Pascal Rambert, Jan Lauwers, Nacera Belaza, Jean-Michel Rabeux, and Lisbeth Gruwez.

Sound creation

QUENTIN CONRATE

It was primarily as a musician that Quentin Conratediscovered sound and its place in space. So it isnot by desire to practice a gap with his fieldbut to question the place of the body and the gesture in a sound space that his journey then turned towards dance and then the plastic arts. It is this background that leads him today to perform both as an improviser musician in several projects (with incomplete drums or field recording) and which makes possible the encounter with different forms of art, generating a multiplication of his experiences as an interpreter. In contemporary music, in musical theater (with the director Frédéric Tentelier) and around performative forms, whether they are his own or not. He had the opportunity to improvise in different corners of France and Europe and to perform on sets such as the Rhiz in Vienne, the Louvre-Lens or the Condition Publique in Roubai.

https://janet-dronemusic.bandcamp.com/album/quentin-conrate

BAPTISTE LEGROS

After two years of studying the performing arts at the University of Lille, he followed a year of drama training at the Lille regional conservatory. In 2014 he joined La Cohue collective for the creation of the show Visage de Feu (Festival Impatience 2015) directed by Martin Legros. Then in 2016 for the creation of the show Oussama ce Héros. He co-founded the company le Grand Singe in 2015 for the creation of the show Int / Ext. Musician, he created with his brother the group Les Dents, they released in 2017 a first EP La Dent. Associated with the road collective, he participates in the project Les fausses cicatrices by composing the music with Benoit Duvette. In 2018 with Yolande Bashing and her out of tune revolution, Baptiste solo offers an electro song that is both raw and empirical. Between excited melancholy and sad rage, the disillusioned texts rub shoulders with haunting beats on the thread of trembling synths. He composes live music in many ZONE-poeme- projects.

https://bruitblancmaintenant.bandcamp.com/album/ma-r-publique

Filmmaking

Lighting

Set Photographer

JOSEPH DAVID

After studying at the Beaux-Arts in Cambrai, he continued at Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing. He collaborates with theater companies (Thec, LaZlo ...) for which he creates videos and projection devices for the stage, and also works with the contemporary art community.His work is at the crossroads of several disciplinesbetween video, film, installation and performance where humor and the absurd are often the order of the day. He favors experiences that allow him various artistic collaborations.It is the teamwork that they involve that motivates himand inspires him.

CAROLINE CARLIEZ

After studying applied arts and scenography, she turned to light, stage lighting. Lighting designer for 10 years, Caroline has participated in all of Simon Capelle’s creations since 2011 and has supported the ZONE -poème- company since its creation. Also a light manager at Prato Lille, she works for various theater and dance companies in the Hauts-de-France region (L’ouvrier du Drame, l’Embellie musculaire, contour progressif, vaguement competitif ...).

MARTINA POZZAN

Born in Schio, Italy, in 1989, Martina is a photographer, with skills in interior design and scenography. After studying in Milan, at IUAV University in Venice and Bilgi University in Istanbul, she obtained her Masters in Photography at the University of Venice. His artistic approach focuses on an exploration of the interactions between the natural and the artificial; between the visible representation of reality at the border of the non-visible. In his work, the social and political dimensions of a subject play a fundamental role and it is during the realization of these aspects that the performative side of his gaze emerges. His current project, Musa x paradisiaca L., questions the conservation of biodiversity through biological collections. A preview of his work was shown at the Unseen Amsterdam Book Market 2018. Based in Berlin, she is currently working with Armin Linke.

https://martinapozzan.net/

Calendar and support

2018—2019

✱ ACCOMPANIMENT – LA ROSE DES VENTS SCÈNE NATIONALE LILLE MÉTROPOLE AND DRAC HAUTS-DE-FRANCE

25-29. JUNE 2018 : residency – Troubleyn / Jan FabreOCTOBER 2018, FEBRUARY, APRIL, MAY 2019 : 4 weeks residencies at la rose des vents1-4. JANUARY 2019 : writing residency in Ireland24. MAY 2019 : Project presentation at la rose des vents

SUMMER 2019 : I-Portunus program mobility help in EuropeResearch and meetings in 10 countries of the European Union.

20-25. JULY 2019 : residency at Latvian Center for Performance Art de Riga (Latvia)

2020—2021

✱ 2020-21 -FRENCH INSTITUTE PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT✱ ARTISTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE THÉÂTRE DE L’OISEAU-MOUCHE IN ROUBAIX

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020: selection Danse Dense – Micadanse ParisSEPTEMBER 17 : work in progress – Le Vivat d’ArmentièresOCTOBER 7 : work in progress – Le Gymnase CDCN – Théâtre de l’Oiseau-Mouche RoubaixOCTOBRE 16 : work in progress – Théâtre Jacques Tati – Amiens

JANUARY 4-8, 2021 : residency – Sala Hiroshima, Barcelona (reporté)JANUARY 18-22 : residency – Théâtre de l’Oiseau-Mouche – Roubaix

FEBRUARY 17, 2021 : french PREMIERE – Le Vivat d’ArmentièresFEBRUARY 22-26 : residency – Théâtre de l’Oiseau-Mouche – Roubaix MARCH : visual installation - Festival le Grand Bain – Gymnase CDCN – RoubaixMARCH 8-9 : SHOW – Le Regard du Cygne – ParisJUNE 1ST, 2021 : SHOW – Théâtre de l’Oiseau-Mouche – RoubaixJUNE : SHOW – Festival Latitudes Contemporaines – Lille JUNE 11-14 : international PREMIERE – Riga Performance Festival – Lettonie

SUMMER 2021 : Research and meetings in 10 countries of the European Union

2019—2020

✱ ACCOMPANIMENT HAPPYNEST / SUPERAMAS ✱ SUPPORT BY THE REGION HAUTS-DE-FRANCE, AMIENS MÉTROPOLE AND DÉPARTEMENT DE LA SOMME. ✱ ARTISTS IN RESIDENCY AT LA ROSE DES VENTS WITH THE SUPPORT OF DRAC HAUTS-DE-FRANCE.

OCTOBER 2019, MARCH, MAY, JUNE 2020 : 4 weeks de residencies at la rose des vents with 2 work-in-progress SEPTEMBER 16-27, 2019 : residency – Théâtre Jacques Tati – AmiensDECEMBER 13-22 : residency – Théâtre Massenet – LilleJUNE 15-26, 2020 : residency– Le Vivat d’ArmentièresAUGUST 24-28 : workshop and researches with young audience – Villeneuve d’Ascq

production ZONE -poème-co-production Superamas (Happynest#3)support I-Portunus – Creative Europe, Institut Français à Paris, Ville de Lille, Région Hauts-de-France, Troubleyn / Jan Fabre, la rose des vents scène nationale – Lille métropole + DRAC Hauts-de-France, , Théâtre Jacques Tati – Amiens, Théâtre Massenet – Lille, Latvian Center for Performance Art – Riga (Lettonie), Sala Hiroshima (Barcelone), Vivat d’Armentières, Théâtre de l’Oiseau-Mouche, Ballet du Nord – CCN, le Gymnase CDCN – Roubaix, Danse Dense, le Regard du Cygne, Latitudes Contemporaines

ZONE —poème— 11 rue de Loos59000 Lille

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ZONE —poème— was created in November 2016. This company wants to be as much a space of creation as a work in movement ; at the encounter between art and life, a platform for avant-garde and experimentation. Transforming the geography of territories into the poetics of bodies.