Page Blanche

• Duration: 1 h
• France
• For all
• 940 vues

Lucamoros

Stretched tight over an immense scaffold, like a vast blank page, a canvas fills up with painted and engraved images right before the audience’s eyes. Part collective fresco, part real-time comic book, composed and set to music by half a dozen young painter-singers, Page Blanche is a story packed with stories… “The world does not exist if it isn’t painted and sung”, say the Australian aborigines... Luc Amoros takes that proverb literally, combining dazzling visual artistry with atmospheric sound design (featuring music by Richard Harmelle) and high-octane performances. Page Blanche maintains the company’s high standards, adding a new level of graphical performance into the mix. The stage set-up itself is highly original, consisting primarily of a huge scaffold. This monumental structure occupies a dual, somewhat paradoxical role as both screen and window onto the flip-side of the façade. Comprised of nine boxes with moveable partitions covered with plastic sheeting, the scaffold becomes a vast canvas or comic book page. Enter a troupe of remarkable painter-actor-singers who soon strike up an incredible ballet of movements, keeping time with the conductor’s baton... To the rhythms of a live band, their paintings, engravings and graphic movements merge and meld in an original narrative process. A choreographic vision of the painter’s art, moving from the individual to the collective.