DameChevaliers - Adèle Haenel et Caro Geryl
- Live performance
- maison Folie Wazemmes, Lille
- Pass Latitudes
- 1h30
Voir clair avec Monique Wittig
Around a fire, words which free our thoughts: the actress Adèle Haenel and the musician Caro Geryl invite us into an intimate, freeing encounter dealing with the explosive power of the writings of Monique Wittig.
DameChevaliers, an artistic feminist collective founded by Caro Geryl and Adèle Haenel, does a deep dive into the cult piece La pensée straight by Monique Wittig, a major figure of the Women’s Liberation Movement and the lesbian movement, and a pioneer in gender studies. In a space-time outside our world, Adèle Haenel recites these texts as if telling a story. Except that in this story there is no mention of a Prince Charming but an obligatory heterosexuality, and the Good Fairies are named Monique Wittig, Sara Ahmed, Audre Lorde, Elsa Dorlin and Adrienne Rich … In what they describe as “the last space for the theatre before the union meeting,” DameChevaliers builds a temporary community around thoughts whose strength is heightened by emotion. A space for seeing clearly and for inventing another world.
Accessibility disclaimer :
→ presence of smoke
Avec le soutien des Lieux Culturels Pluridisciplinaires de la ville de Lille
On june 24th, the performance will be followed by a discussion with Soazic Courbet, founder of the l’Affranchie library, and both performers. This discussion will follow up to podcast episode on l’Affranchie Podcast. Find out more here !
Biography(s)
Adèle Haenel (Paris)
Adèle Haenel is an actress. In theater and choreography, she collaborates with Gisèle Vienne, performing and co-writing the texts for the shows L’Étang (2020) and Extra Life (2023), both presented at the Festival d’Automne in Paris. She is also co-founder of the feminist collective Damechevaliers, with which she conducts theatrical research on the links between language, power, and collective struggles. In 2022, she created the sound design and music for the reading of Monique Wittig’s Le Voyage sans fin at the Maison de la Poésie with Caro Geryl. She has appeared in around twenty films, including 120 Beats per Minute (Robin Campillo, 2017), The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2016) and Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019). Since 2020, she has focused her activities on the performing arts.
Caro Geryl (Marseille)
Caro Geryl began her career as a musician/drummer, accompanying artists such as Gala, Pomme, Emel Mathlouti, Canine, Naïve New Beaters, Laura Cahen, Têtes Raides, Jeanne Cherhal, Silly Boy Blue, and Yelli Yelli. In 2023, Adèle Haenel and Gisèle Vienne invited her to join the Damechevaliers collective as a sound designer for a reading of Monique Wittig’s play Le voyage sans fin (The Endless Journey). This collaboration gave rise to a powerful electro track, an anthem against sexist violence: “Riposte Tribute to Audre Lorde.” Following this experience, the collective decided to stage La pensée Straight by the same author and is working in parallel on the release of a first EP.
Credits
Conception, writing : Adèle Haenel based on the writings of Monique Wittig, Sarah Ahmed, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Elsa Dorlin.
Sound design : Caro Geryl
Music : Damechevaliers – Caro Geryl & Adèle Haenel
Dramaturgy : Gisèle Vienne
Sound management : Youmna Saba
Light and general management : Thibault Villard
Administration, production & diffusion : Compagnie DACM Clémentine Papandrea, Cloé Haas
Production : DACM / Compagnie Gisèle Vienne
Coproduction : TPR – Centre neuchâtelois des arts vivants – La Chaux-de-Fonds & Théâtre National – Wallonie Bruxelles
Support : Avec le soutien de La Métive, lieu international de résidence de création artistique.
Special thanks : Théâtre Populaire Romand, Anne Bisang et Jehanne Carnal, Théâtre National Wallonie Bruxelles, Pierre Thys et Valérie Martino. Merci à : Joëlle Sambi, Sande Zeig, Dominique Samson Wittig, Gisèle Vienne.
La compagnie DACM est conventionnée par Le Ministère de la Culture – DRAC Grand Est, la Région Grand Est, La ville de Strasbourg. La compagnie bénéficie pour ses tournées à l’étranger du soutien de l’Institut Français.
La compagnie est membre du – SYNDEAC – Syndicat National des Entreprises Artistiques et Culturelles.
