Boudoir
conception Steven Cohen
- ##general.period##:
- 11/01 - 13/01/24
- ##general.room##:
- Montjuïc. Sala Fabià Puigserver
Show completed
Timetable
17:30
20:30
22:00
Running time
1 h 10' (film 30' + performance 40')
Place
Sala Fabià Puigserver. Stage
Language
performance with some text in English
Price
Pay what you want/can per ticket: €12, €15 or €17 / With discount, €8,5
Attention
The second part of the show must continue standing.
Spectators are asked NOT to sit in the seats or touch the exhibits.
Description
For this new work, South African and queer artist and choreographer installed in France Steven Cohen will be receiving the audience in his boudoir. If up until now his performances have consisted of exposing or even over- exposing himself both on stage and in public spaces, this time he will welcome the audience into a space both intimate and reserved.
The dressing table is traditionally a room inside a bourgeois house reserved for female conversations, between the living room and the bedroom: the inverted reflection of the predominantly male sphere of public and social spaces. Boudoir is then more than a physical space, it is a situation: a collection, in every sense of the word: a lexicon, a salon, an exhibition, a sum of disparate elements that form an autonomous whole, a private undertaking inviting in strangers. It is an installation/performance that gathers what the artist has done and continues to create but does not allow itself to be identified, assigned, classified, contained in the order of discourses, of history, of oppressions.
This performative installation is the culmination of the works of Cohen, performer and visual artist born in 1962. Each element houses fragments of memories that come from a past collective life (bourgeois sociabilities, gadgets and disguises, relics of religion and war, trophies that celebrate the domination of man over nature, on animals or bodies and distant cultures...). Through the collage or convergence of contradictory memories, objects, furniture and clothing generate hybrid and metamorphic forms.
Schedule
PERFORMER
Steven Cohen
OFF VOICE
Mercè Cervera
SETTING
Steven Cohen
COSTUMES
Steven Cohen and Clive Rundle
LIGHTING
Yvan Labasse
VIDEO
Richard Muller
VIDEO EDITION
Baptiste Evrard and Steven Cohen
PHOTOGRAPHY
John Hogg and Allan Thiebault
ACCESSORIES
Jesse Brooks
GENERAL STAGE MANAGER
Véronique Kespi
SOUND AND VIDEO MANAGER
Jad Makki
STAGE MANAGER
Jean-Daniel Buri
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
Samuel Mateu
PRODUCTION
Cie Steven Cohen - Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
With the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, as a part of the New Settings programme
CO-PRODUCTION
Mousonturm Frankfurt (DE); Théâtre National de Bretagne (FR); TAP Théâtre et Auditorium de Poitiers (FR); Les Spectacles vivants, Centre Pompidou (FR); Festival d’Automne à Paris (FR); Les Halles de Schaerbeek (BE); BIT Teatergarasjen (NO)
SUPPORTED BY
Collectif FAIR-E/CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne (FR); DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine (FR)
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