HONDA ROMANCE

What are our emotions made of?
How do they fit together within us?
What are they composed of?
Should we always keep them at a distance?
Where can we move their invasion?
How can we observe them?
What part of them truly belongs to us, and what escapes us?
What do they reveal about us?

Vimala Pons, circus artist, actress, performer, and director, creates with HONDA ROMANCE a sensitive, real-time translation of the unstoppable, non-hierarchical flow of thought. Song and music (composed by Tsirihaka Harrivel and Rebeka Warrior), dance, walking, and working with gravity combine to give form to the inner movement of emotions, imbalances, and the perpetual adjustment that constitutes our existence.

HONDA ROMANCE – Premiere from September 23 to 28 at the Comédie de Genève

Writing and performance Vimala Pons
Music composition Tsirihaka Harrivel
Choral music composition Rebeka Warrior
With the singers from Miroirs Étendus Sabianka Bencsik, Joseph Decange, Océane Deweirder, François Gardeil, Myriam Jarmache, Mariam Lompo, Flor Paichard, Firoozeh Raeesdana, Vic Requier, Léa Trommenschlager
Artistic collaboration Fiona Monbet and Romain Louveau for direction, adaptation, and musical arrangement
Scenographic research Benjamin Bertrand, Marion Flament, and Vimala Pons
Scenographic perspective Marion Flament
General stage management Benjamin Bertrand, Marc Chevillon
Lighting design Arnaud Pierrel
Sound design Anaëlle Marsollier
Costume design Marie La Rocca
Costume assistant Anne Tesson
Artistic collaboration and coordination Émeline Hervé
Set construction Workshops of the Comédie de Genève

With the full administrative, technical, and production teams of the Comédie de Genève

Production TOUT ÇA / QUE ÇA and Comédie de Genève
Co-production MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble, Les Nuits de Fourvière – International Festival of the Lyon Metropolis, Festival d’Automne – Paris, Centre Dramatique National de Tours – Théâtre Olympia, Malraux Scène Nationale Chambéry Savoie, Le Lieu Unique – Nantes, CDN Orléans / Centre-Val de Loire, CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Les Halles de Schaerbeek – Brussels, 3 bis f Centre for Contemporary Performing and Visual Arts – Aix-en-Provence
With the support of the BNP Paribas Foundation
Residency support Platform 2 Pôles Cirque in Normandy – La Brèche in Cherbourg, Villa Belleville – Paris, La Ménagerie de Verre as part of the StudioLab program, MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble – National Stage

Tsirihaka Harrivel and Vimala Pons are associate artists at Le Lieu Unique (Nantes)
Vimala Pons is an associate artist at CENTQUATRE (Paris), MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble – National Stage, and the Centre Dramatique National de Tours – Théâtre Olympia

TOUT ÇA / QUE ÇA is supported by the Ministry of Culture – DRAC Île-de-France

Performance in French | Estimated duration 1h15 | Ages 14+

TOURING:
Comédie de Genève – Pauline Pierron
+33 6 76 59 15 22
ppierron@comedie.ch​