Crowd

Gisèle Vienne

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Live performance

Opera of Lille, Lille
1h30

Crowd is a deep dive into the center of a great party. Onstage, fifteen dancers embark on a cathartic journey through the ghosts of their fantasies, their emotions and their own shadows.

For twenty years, Gisèle Vienne, a French-Austrian choreographer and director, has created unclassifiable pieces which channel human duality – between eroticism and violence, sensuality and the sacred. Crowd could be a so-called “free party” or a ceremony involving a collective trance: full immersion into a group of people driven by the same desires. Electrified by the DJ set by Peter Rehberg, the dancers create groups, rituals, allowing several realities and temporalities to coexist at the same time. A slightly hallucinatory piece which blurs the lines between waking dreams and a frenzied, pulsing rave: Crowd is a kind of dialogue between that which for us is the most intimate.

Accessibility information :
Slightly abrupt light changes
Light presence of smoke or smoke
High noise intensity levels

Biography(s)

Gisèle Vienne is a Franco-Austrian artist, choreographer and director. After studying philosophy and music, she trained at the Ecole Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette. She has been working regularly with, among others, writer Dennis Cooper.

For 20 years, her productions and choreographies have toured Europe and have been regularly presented in Asia and America, including I Apologize (2004), Kindertotenlieder (2007, recreation 2021), Jerk (2008), This is how you will disappear (2010), The Ventriloquists Convention (2015), Crowd (2017) and L’Etang (2020). In 2020, she created with Etienne Bideau-Rey a fourth version of Showroomdummies at the Rohm Theater Kyoto, a piece originally created in 2001.

Gisèle Vienne regularly exhibits her photographs in museums including the Whitney Museum in New York, the Centre Pompidou, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires and the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris. She published two books Jerk/ Through Their Tears in collaboration with Dennis Cooper, Peter Rehberg and Jonathan Capdevielle in 2011 and a book 40 Portraits 2003-2008, in collaboration with Dennis Cooper and Pierre Dourthe in February 2012. His work has been the subject of several publications and the original music of his pieces from several albums.

In 2021, the Festival d’Automne in Paris dedicated a Portrait to him, bringing together two creations, four pieces of the repertoire, a new exhibition and a film Jerk, directed by Gisèle Vienne the same year.

It is currently preparing its next creation, the first of which will take place in August 2023 at the Ruhrtriennale.

Credits

For Kerstin
Conception, choreography and scenography Gisèle Vienne Assisted by Anja Röttgerkamp and Nuria Guiu Sagarra Lumière Patrick Riou
Dramaturgy Gisèle Vienne and Dennis Cooper
Music Underground Resistance, KTL, Vapour Space, DJ Rolando, Drexciya, The Martian, Choice, Jeff Mills, Peter Rehberg, Manuel Göttsching, Sun Electric and Global Communication
Editing & music selection: Peter Rehberg
Sound Broadcast Design Stephen O’Malley
Cast Lucas Bassereau, Morgane Bonis, Marine Chesnais, Sylvain Decloitre, Sophie Demeyer, Vincent Dupuy, Massimo Fusco, Rehin Hollant, Maya Masse, Nach, Oskar Landström, Theo Livesey, Katia Petrowick, Linn Ragnarsson, Jonathan Schatz
Costumes Gisèle Vienne in collaboration with Camille Queval and the interpreters Engineer son Adrien Michel and Mareike Trillhaas
Sound engineer Adrien Michel
General management Erik Houllier
Set management Antoine Hordé
Lighting Arnaud Lavisse
Thanks to Louise Bentkowski, Dominique Brun, Zac Farley, Uta Gebert, Etienne Hunsinger, Mar- gret Sara Guðjónsdóttir, Isabelle Piechaczyk, Richard Pierre, Arco Renz, Jean-Paul Vienne and Dorothéa Vienne-Pollak

Detailed credits of the music (in order of broadcast)
Underground Resistance : The Illuminator (Underground Resistance, 1995)
KTL : Lampshade (exclusive, 2017)
Vapour Space : Gravitational Arch Of 10 (Plus 8, 1993)
DJ Rolando : Vibrations mix (Underground Resistance, 2002)
Underground Resistance : Sweat Electric (Somewhere In Detroit 1994)
Underground Resistance : Twista (Underground Resistance, 1993)
Drexciya : Wavejumper (Underground Resistance, 1995)
The Martian : The Intruder (Red Planet, 1992)
Underground Resistance : Code Red (Underground Resistance, 1993)
Underground Resistance : Lunar Rhythms (Somewhere In Detroit, 1995)
Underground Resistance : Hi-Tech Funk (Underground Resistance, 1997)
Choice : Acid Eiffel (Fragile Records, 1992)
Jeff Mills : Phase 4 (Tresor, Axis, 1992)
Peter Rehberg : Furgen Matrix, Telegene (exclusive, 2017)
Göttsching Manual : E2-E4 (Inteam, 1984)
Sun Electric : Sarotti (R&S Records, 1993)
Global Communication : 14 31 (Ob-selon Mi-Nos) (Evolution, 1994)

Production and distribution Alma Office Anne-Lise Gobin, Camille Queval & Andrea Kerr; administration Cloé Haas & Giovanna Rua
Production DACM ; Compagnie Gisèle Vienne
Co-production Nanterre-Amandiers, Centre dramatique national ; Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne ; Wiener Festwochen ; manège, scène nationale – reims ; Théâtre national de Bretagne ; Centre Dramatique National Orléans ; Loiret ; Centre ; La Filature, National Scene – Mulhouse ; BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen.

Support CCN2 – Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble; CND Centre national de la danse
The Gisèle Vienne Company has a contract with the Ministry of Culture and Communication – DRAC Grand Est, the Grand Est Region and the City of Strasbourg.
The company receives support from Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels and regular support from the French Institute for its tours abroad.
Gisèle Vienne is an artist associated with Chaillot – Théâtre national de la danse, the MC2: Grenoble, the Volcan and the Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes.