HYMEN HYMNE

Nina Santes

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Live performance

1h20
La Condition Publique

With Hymen hymn, the choreographer Nina Santes immerses us in the figure of the witch. This figure is an ode to difference: the one that frightens or reassures, this woman collectively designated and condemned, or, on the contrary, proclaiming herself as such.

Between a magical ritual and an immersive performance, this creation for five performers attempts to explore social archetypes as well as ways to escape them. What would a contemporary witch be? Nina Santes met with different people at the four corners of the world to feed her research and try to draw the outlines of this silhouette with many faces. The character of the witch summons fantasies and realities, between threat to social order and memory of feminist struggles. Crossing a documentary approach with a quasi-anthropological study around magic and its rituals, the choreographer chooses to create a dialogue between the bodies and the voices of the performers in an inclusive and outlet choreography.

Biography(s)

Nina Santes began her career as a puppeteer.

Since 2008, she has performed on stage as a dancer in creations by Mylène Benoît, Myriam Gourfink, Catherine Contour, Pascal Rambert, Kevin Jean, Olivier Normand, Laurence Pagès,

Hélène Cathala, Perrine Valli, Éleonore Didier, Philippe Grandieux, Herman Diephuis, Lorenzo de Angelis, Emmanuel Eggermont…

She is the author of choreographic and musical stage works, among them : Désastre (2012), in collaboration with the composer Kasper Toeplitz, Transmorphonema, a co-creation with Daniel Linehan (Vif du Sujet SACD 2014), Self made man (2015, and A leaf, a co-creation with Celia Gondol (2016). In 2018 she created a piece for five performers : Hymen Hymne. The same year she received the SACD Prize Nouveau Talent Chorégraphique. In 2020, she created République Zombie, a piece for three performers, and (Though a silent orchestra, they were full of) ELEGIES, a performance for a child’s voice and a group of traditional singers, presented in Athens. In 2021, she is invited by Lyon Opera Ballet to create a solo for the dancer Elsa Monguillot : LA VENERINA. She is Artiste Associée at Atelier de Paris CDCN, from 2019 to 2021.

Credits

Distribution :

Conception : Nina Santes

Réalisation : Nina Santes, Betty Tchomanga, Soa de Muse, Nanyadji Ka-Gara, Lynda Rahal, Lise Vermot et Nina Santes

Création lumière : Annie Leuridan

Création sonore : Nicolas Martz

Scénographie : Célia Gondol

Costumes : En collaboration avec Margot Da Silva, Léa Méier

Consultant travail vocal : Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias

Collaboratrice dramaturgie : Lynda Rahal

Mentions & crédits :

En collaboration avec Camille Ducellier Images | Camille Ducellier, Cali Dos Anjos Durée | 80 mn Production | La Fronde Coproduction | Le Phare/Centre chorégraphique national du Havre Haute Normandie, Le Musée de la Danse/Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes, CDC Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson, CCNO/Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans, Fonds de dotation du Quartz-Scène nationale de Brest Partenaires | Théâtre des Brigittines, Bruxelles Avec le soutien de la DRAC Ile-de-France, d’ARCADI, de l’ADAMI, et de la Spedidam