Et mon coeur a vu à foison

Et mon coeur a vu à foison is a piece of gothic exuberance, which forces the line, exceeds the measure: a “monstrous” piece. Built like a polyptych, the piece unfolds a procession of frenzied bodies. Bodies that show themselves in their stupidity, in their weakness, bodies that  spread in their insolent presence, exhausted bodies, bodies in a trance which strangely appear in incredible forms. The  iconography concerning triumphs of death, medieval tapestries, great scenes of demonic possessions and miraculous healings, the  iconography of Charenton and Salpêtrière hospitals, Zulawski’s horror and possession films in Argento, ritual trance ethnic dances have served us as creative material.
Robin Leduc worked his musical composition by searching medieval forms – ballads, rondeaux, songs – as well as polyphony and  trance rhythms. How to create a music of apparent poverty while chord slips, rhythmic transformations are chiseled in detail?
The  designer lights Valérie Sigward has built a suspended luminous object, like many falling stars, that sculpts and nimps the space. The nimbus is a luminous disc used to represent deceased characters.
Corine  Petitpierre has created a plastic universe that oscillates between simplicity and profusion, between tribal and theatrical  adornment. The costumes accompany, emphasize and are an integral part of the dramaturgy.

Source: CCN of Caen in Normandy