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FRANÇOIS CHAIGNAUD IS APPOINTED AS DIRECTOR OF THE CCN CAEN IN NORMANDIE STARTING JANUARY 1st, 2026

Come Kiss Me Now

Creation 2023

Shows

“Come Kiss Me Now takes us through 17th-cen­tury Eng­lish music lit­er­at­ure, Robert Burton’s treaty The Ana­tomy of Mel­an­choly, and New Romantics cov­ers. Five study por­traits explore, dis­sect and meander through mel­an­chol­ic affects and reveal a mul­ti­pli­city of vari­ations around that humor. The piece com­bines recit­al, dance theatre, singing, ancient music and digit­ally-assisted music com­pos­i­tion, 17th-cen­tury tunes and New Wave songs, where violas de gamba con­sort with beat­boxes, opera singing, spoken word. Everything blends togeth­er, bleeds through, and pours into infin­ite and cir­cu­lar time.

Our endeavor is to pro­pose a col­lab­or­at­ive piece between dance, music, lit­er­at­ure, light­ing and cos­tumes with all the per­formers and cre­at­ors. It is a vis­cer­ally express­ive piece, whose dra­mat­ic struc­ture com­bines breath, song, text and a body moved by Melancholy.

A cho­reo­graph­ic poem with mul­tiple entries, Come Kiss Me Now pro­poses a reflec­tion on our rela­tion to death, to the fra­gil­ity and pre­cari­ous­ness of life but also our capa­city for con­tinu­ously explor­ing our trans­form­a­tions even when they are invis­ible to us.”

Alban Richard, May 2023

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Cast

Con­cep­tion, choreography
Alban Richard

Sta­ging counsellor
Anne Kersting

Assist­ant choreographer
Daph­né Mauger

Cre­ated and per­formed by
Chi­hiro Araki, Mar­ie-Suz­anne de Loye, Ezra, Alice Lada, Andreas Linos, Alban Richard, Céline Scheen, Sarah Van Oudenhove

Live music­al soundtrack
Max Bruck­ert, Cul­ture Club, John Dow­land, Eurythmics, Ezra, Orlando Gib­bons, Orches­tral Manœuvre in the Dark, Soft Cell, Visage

Music
Ezra, Max Bruckert

Arranged by
François Joubert-Cail­let

Sound
Quentin Bonnard et Max Bruckert

Poem-book
Mar­ie de Quatrebarbes

Sta­ging and lighting
Jan Fedinger

Sceno­graphy
Valentin Pasquet

Cos­tumes
Fanny Brouste, Rachel Gar­cia, Vic­tor Molinié

Ward­robe
Yolène Guais

Stage man­ager
Olivi­er Ingouf

Eng­lish coach
Zelda Rittner

Dur­a­tion 1h40

Thanks to François Joubert-Cail­let, Nath­alie Schul­mann, Sebasti­an Rivas, Anna­belle Bon­néry, Carte Blanche Nor­way Nation­al Con­tem­por­ary Dance Com­pany, Mick­aël Phelippeau

Deputy pro­du­cer centre choré­graph­ique nation­al de Caen en Normandie
Co-pro­duced with Le Théâtre, scène nationale de Saint-Nazaire
With the sup­port of Jan Michal­ski Found­a­tion for writ­ing and litterature

Professional contacts

Bur­eau Les Indépend­ances, Math­ieu Hilléreau
mathieu@lesindependances.com
+33 (0)1 43 38 23 71 // +33 (0)6 80 50 40 21