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Les Baigneurs (Bathers)
Shows - installations
At once a moving sculpture, a delicate performance and a slow choreography, Les Baigneurs (Bathers) infuses space with poetry and oneiric gestures – another pace and other colors in the atmosphere of an ideal summer.
Under the Falaise sky, Yvan Clédat and Coco Petitpierre draw inspiration from bathers, often represented in modern painting from Picasso to Léger, for a peaceful and dreamy performance in the Danse de tous les Sens festival. Hidden in surprising and colorful pleated tulle costumes in soft hues, the “fusional duo of artists” embody two big dolls wearing striped bathing costumes that wander slowly in the public space, engrossed in the enjoyment of the pleasures of summer. Sunbathing, lounging, playing and embracing each other, the two characters play familiar seaside scenes that appear as a series of images, with two sea-blue beach towels and a sun-yellow ball as props. The duo explores slowly this condensed world, a primary and childlike convocation of an oneiric universe whose slow rhythm contrasts with the urban hustle and bustle. Ever since it premiered in 2017 on the banks of Lake Geneva, Les Baigneurs has been reprised on several occasions in various countries, in a myriad singular and unique moments.
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Conceived, directed and performed by Yvan Clédat and Coco Petitpierre
Duration 60 minutes
Production lebeau et associés
Coproduction far° festival des arts vivants Nyon, musée du Léman à Nyon (CH)
Partnerships
With Chorège CDCN Falaise Normandie, Festival Danse de tous les Sens
Where and when
May 2023
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13
à Falaise, en plein air 12:00 pm