Chef de corps

Chef de corps is inspired by the idea of panoptic (meaning the ability to see everywhere) architecture as set design, with a central axis able to observe and monitor groups of individuals. Far from being the simple illustration of Bentham’s 18th century prison structure and other ways of monitoring the activities of certain people, it intends to be a way to question our society, its forms of surveillance as well as its tools for manipulation.

Conception Raphaëlle Latini
Performers Michelle Moura and Marie Gyselbrecht
Sound Raphaëlle Latini and Mathias Delplanques
Lighting Fred Hocke
Digital Stage management Léopold Frey
Outside eye Samuel Lefeuvre
Artistic collaboration and counselor for technological development Armando Menicacci
Voice work Valérie Joly

Coproduction: Scène Nationale 61, Alençon, CCN de Caen en Normandie under the auspices of the Accueil-studio program, MA scène nationale – Pays de Montbéliard, Viadanse CCN of Belfort under the auspices of the Accueil-studio program, CHOREGE Relais Culturel Régional Pays de Falaise.

With support from: UQAM (University of Quebec in Montreal, Dance and New Technologies Department), Hexagram Montreal.
Thanks to Les Ateliers intermédiaires, Danse Perspective.

Chef de corps is part of the project we call CORPS DISCIPLINAIRES, a project which explores on several levels the influence of the authorities on our perceptions and movements. It will be developed with 4 principal axes:

– Research and transmission: Corps réfléchis
– Performance: Chef de corps
– Publication