HEART
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A heart allegory in black & white with LISE PAUTON
directed by Sebastiano Toma
>German >France >Italian
A heart allegory in black & white with LISE PAUTON
directed by Sebastiano Toma
"When will the waiting end?"
That is how the spoken text might begin.
But it will not be spoken.
Words would be far too gentle for everything around them.
Is she waiting alone in an abandoned house for someone? Perhaps for her husband?
Surely, he is a salesman, a manager, or even a soldier? But in which war are we?
Or is it just the lost dream of herself? What kind of violence has she been subjected to?
Nothing points to a specific era. Neither the white curtains nor the few props have a history or an origin.
What does it matter anyway?
We find ourselves in the heart of a woman, who lives in a frozen uncertainty beyond normal states of being.
Outside, trains clatter over the tracks, while dogs howl like hyenas as if there were no tomorrow.
Order seems lost.
The radio sometimes plays Zarah Leander, sometimes Bartok or Cowboy Indian Bear.
Thoughts are deconstructed into movements and accompanied by archaic sounds,
until the body,
naked and defenseless, yields to fate and leaves the field like an animal.
Not a little match girl, but a woman beyond good and evil.
A tour de force for body and mind
ENSEMBLE/PRODUCTION
LISE PAUTON PERFORMANCE
SEBASTIANO TOMA DIRECTING
LISE PAUTON & SEBASTIANO TOMA IDEA
JEAN-LUC MAURSLIGHT DESIGN
LEO PLASTAGA SOUND DESIGN
VÉRONIQUE PAUTON CHOREOGRAPHIC ADVICE
STÉPHANE ZANG PROPS DESIGN AND CONTRUCTION
SEBASTIANO TOMA SET DESIGN
SEBASTIANO TOMA & LISE PAUTON RAIEMANTACOMPAGNIE PRODUCTION
COPRODUCTION: PÔLE NATIONAL CIRQUE JULES VERNE D´AMIENS
RESIDENCE SUPPORT: CIRCA, PÔLE NATIONAL DES ARTS DU CIRQUE AUCH
RESIDENCE SUPPORT: GRAINERIE, FABRIQUE DES ARTS DU CIRQUE ET DE L’ITINÉRANCE TOULOUSE
WITH THE SUPPORT OF:
DRAC Midi-Pyrénées/Languedoc Roussillon
Conseil Régional Midi-Pyrénées/Languedoc Roussillon
Conseil Départemental Haute Garonne
Mairie de Toulouse
BOOKING Germany : WWW.SEBASTIANO.DE BOOKING France : WWW.TOUTART.FR
LISE PAUTON PERFORMANCE
SEBASTIANO TOMA DIRECTING
LISE PAUTON & SEBASTIANO TOMA IDEA
JEAN-LUC MAURSLIGHT DESIGN
LEO PLASTAGA SOUND DESIGN
VÉRONIQUE PAUTON CHOREOGRAPHIC ADVICE
STÉPHANE ZANG PROPS DESIGN AND CONTRUCTION
SEBASTIANO TOMA SET DESIGN
SEBASTIANO TOMA & LISE PAUTON RAIEMANTACOMPAGNIE PRODUCTION
COPRODUCTION: PÔLE NATIONAL CIRQUE JULES VERNE D´AMIENS
RESIDENCE SUPPORT: CIRCA, PÔLE NATIONAL DES ARTS DU CIRQUE AUCH
RESIDENCE SUPPORT: GRAINERIE, FABRIQUE DES ARTS DU CIRQUE ET DE L’ITINÉRANCE TOULOUSE
WITH THE SUPPORT OF:
DRAC Midi-Pyrénées/Languedoc Roussillon
Conseil Régional Midi-Pyrénées/Languedoc Roussillon
Conseil Départemental Haute Garonne
Mairie de Toulouse
BOOKING Germany : WWW.SEBASTIANO.DE BOOKING France : WWW.TOUTART.FR
HEART OF THE SHOW
Sebastiano Toma is the creator of the groundbreaking and influential Little Big World, a breathtaking mix of circus, music and visuals. Among other things, he is creative director of the European Youth Circus festival in Wiesbaden, Germany, and also brought us the graphic novel version of Wim Wenders' classic film Wings of Desire/Der Himmel über Berlin.
With Heart he has collaborated with French contortionist and performance artist Lise Pauton. It is a shadowy, unnerving piece of theatre that showcases Pauton's extraordinary physicality, supported by music that veers from 1940s-style Hollywood melodrama to oppressively eerie electronica. The show looks at what would happen if we were to allow our hearts to rule our heads.
As the sole performer, Pauton is, forgive me, the heart of the show. A compelling presence, she is in turns wildly animalistic and silkily graceful. She plays a character apparently trapped in, or a willing inhabitant of a dark room, with backlit white drapes acting as a window to the outside world. With her long curtain of dark hair, initially in front of her face, falling down to her waist, she is at times more creature than woman. She puts the viewer on edge straight away by wielding a large pair of garden shears; will she chop her hair off? Her head? A limb? As the show progresses, she becomes in turns utterly possessed and demonic, thrashing around the stage in a maelstrom of physicality, before slowing and becoming more insular and calm.
Her contortion is no mere display of physicality; when she performs back bends or moves spider-like on all fours, it is to support the feeling of freedom, a lack of restraint that the character possesses.
Heart showcases Pauton's skills, but also gives us an intriguing insight into physical freedom.
Adrian Arratoon -TheWidowStanton- Link> http://thewidowstanton.com
Sebaiano Toma, 11.08.2015/ Hamburg
Sebastiano Toma is the creator of the groundbreaking and influential Little Big World, a breathtaking mix of circus, music and visuals. Among other things, he is creative director of the European Youth Circus festival in Wiesbaden, Germany, and also brought us the graphic novel version of Wim Wenders' classic film Wings of Desire/Der Himmel über Berlin.
With Heart he has collaborated with French contortionist and performance artist Lise Pauton. It is a shadowy, unnerving piece of theatre that showcases Pauton's extraordinary physicality, supported by music that veers from 1940s-style Hollywood melodrama to oppressively eerie electronica. The show looks at what would happen if we were to allow our hearts to rule our heads.
As the sole performer, Pauton is, forgive me, the heart of the show. A compelling presence, she is in turns wildly animalistic and silkily graceful. She plays a character apparently trapped in, or a willing inhabitant of a dark room, with backlit white drapes acting as a window to the outside world. With her long curtain of dark hair, initially in front of her face, falling down to her waist, she is at times more creature than woman. She puts the viewer on edge straight away by wielding a large pair of garden shears; will she chop her hair off? Her head? A limb? As the show progresses, she becomes in turns utterly possessed and demonic, thrashing around the stage in a maelstrom of physicality, before slowing and becoming more insular and calm.
Her contortion is no mere display of physicality; when she performs back bends or moves spider-like on all fours, it is to support the feeling of freedom, a lack of restraint that the character possesses.
Heart showcases Pauton's skills, but also gives us an intriguing insight into physical freedom.
Adrian Arratoon -TheWidowStanton- Link> http://thewidowstanton.com
Sebaiano Toma, 11.08.2015/ Hamburg
