Mes amis [adaptation]

Bagouet finds its own way, where hallucination born of the suspension of time, the expansion of space and infinite detail in relation to the movement, text, voice and sound.

Choreography: Dominique Bagouet

From an extract of Victor Bâton’s lonely adventures imagined by E. Bove in “Mes amis”, here is the course of a man listening to the text, to the music inspired by this very text, and seeming to be similar to the character, bordering on performance…

This character is also constantly listening to himself, bordering on paranoia.

So looking for improbable friends, Victor Bâton finds himself the victim of pathetic and involuntarily comical and painful situations.

The actor thus stays in contact with this ‘soul level’ text written by Bove, but he is also confronted with and depends (like dancers) on a musical environment which could be considered (without any realism) as the amplification at every level of his own inside noise; he could be also in contact  with himself, in the most private details (at ‘body level’), with his nearest universe (objects, pieces of furniture…), with the environment (streets, corridors, public places…), or, which is the most complicated, he could be in contact with the others. All these relations will depend only on himself as a form of some unconscious tenacity.

Sources: Dominique Bagouet – Autumn 1984

Credits

Choreography: Dominique Bagouet

From the novel by Emmanuel Bove “Mes amis”

Duration: 14′

Actor: Gérard Guillaumat

Music: Gilles Grand

Assistant: Alain Neddam

Stage lighting: Rémi Nicolas

Costumes: Dominique Bagouet

Direction: Charles Picq

Production: Maison de la danse de Lyon, Les Carnets Bagouet

Date of creation: January 3rd 1985, ateliers des décors du Théâtre National Populaire de Villeurbanne

Performance recorded in 1985, Théâtre des Ateliers at Lyon

Last update: December 2012