In 2017, L’Âge de la Tortue published The Encyclopedia of Migrants, a 1782-page book containing 400 letters from migrants, collected in eight cities along the Atlantic coast of Europe, between Brittany and Gibraltar. Since then, Paloma Fernández Sobrino has created seven successive performances that pass on and give voice to these intimate stories, with specific actions in each partner city: Rennes, Brussels, Milan, Istanbul, Barcelona and Lisbon.
The live performance remains the most visible part of this activist project that brings the social and political plight of migrants to the attention of citizens, public decision-makers and the media. However it also includes seminars, manifestos, scientific publications, and guidelines and ethics kits. Each time the artistic residency focuses on the local area and brings together new actors, a human and social science researcher, musicians and graphic arts students around the director and documentary filmmaker.
For this return to Les Tombées de la Nuit, Fusée de Détresse #7 brings together three readers, a multigenerational ensemble of cellists from the Conservatoire de Rennes, led by Alain Brunier, and dancer Saïdo Lehlouh from the collective FAIR-E, performing to a repertoire of Bach music and a re-interpretation of Roland Petit’s choreography (Le jeune homme et la mort).
BIOGRAPHY
L’Âge de la Tortue
L’âge de la Tortue was founded in 2001 in Rennes, where it runs multi-disciplinary visual and performing arts projects that examine our relationship with political and social representations. It develops projects on a micro-local scale, in connection with other places in Europe (such as The Encyclopedia of Migrants from 2014 to 2017), and has worked with associate artist, director and creator of multi-disciplinary projects, Paloma Fernández Sobrino, since 2007. In 2009, she wrote, directed and performed the play Déroute, and then Déroute (2) with opera singer Justine Curatolo, followed by Trouvé dans l’oubli with Benoit Hâtet, Nathalie Élain and flamenco singer Pere Martínez (2015). She created the European cooperation project, Correspondances Citoyennes with Nicolas Combes, and is the artistic director of the performing arts project Fusée de détresse, which has been presented in France (Rennes), Belgium (Brussels), Italy (Milan), Turkey (Istanbul), Spain (Barcelona) and Portugal (Lisbon).
DISTRIBUTION
Direction artistique : Paloma Fernández Sobrino
Direction musicale : Alain Brunier
Lecteurs : Benoît Hattet, Rahaf Demashki et André Belo.
Danseur : Bidjé de Rosa
Musiciens : un ensemble de violoncellistes multi-générationnel du conservatoire de rennes, sous la direction d’Alain Brunier
Régie lumière : Maël Teillant
Régie son : Ronan Gicquel
Administration : Sophie Archereau.
Communication : Léa Gosselin.
Action culturelle : Élodie Chabaud.
PRODUCTION
Une production de L’âge de la tortue co-produite par Les Tombées de la Nuit, par le Collectif FAIR-E / CCNRB, le Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Rennes et co-financé par la Ville de Rennes et la Commission européenne (programme ERASMUS+) dans le cadre du projet de coopération européenne Fusée de détresse coordonné par L’âge de la tortue.
