ACT II of Le Logoscope’s 18th anniversary celebration: Friday 10 April 2015 REVOLUTION AGRAIRE (AGRARIAN REVOLUTION) Installation dance performance Théâtre des Variétés Principality of Monaco 8 pm Free admission FROM SEVEN TO SEVENTY-SEVEN This original new piece by Mimoza Koïke,1 Bruno Roque2 and Agnès Roux3 immerses you in the poetic world of a farming community for gourmet cannibals. They are accompanied by Christian Selvatico,4 Leslie Bourgeois5 and Asier Edeso.6 REVOLUTION AGRAIRE is a cross-disciplinary work produced by Le Logoscope’s performing arts and visual arts platforms. It interconnects the skills, spaces and temporalities of the exhibition and dance theatre. 1 Principal dancer with Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, choreographer, artistic director of Le Logoscope 2 Dancer with Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, choreographer 3 Mixed media artist, chairwoman and founder of Le Logoscope, professor of video at Pavillon Bosio 4 Mixed media artist at Le Logoscope 5 Set and costume designer at Le Logoscope, stage director, actress 6 Dancer with Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo VIEWERS WILL WITNESS A LABORATORY EXPERIMENT – IN THE ARTS! Tinged with humour, the story of this experiment references the introductory text of Roland Topor’s book Cannibal Cuisine (published in 1970), in which he writes, “What is the human species if not a livestock farm that has been ‘left fallow’.” By defining a framed space on the floor, REVOLUTION AGRAIRE is a board game that contains a set of plots and tools in which two groups of performers activate a sensory experience. The first group embodies a restless herd of anthropomorphic animals that play a randomised score. The second group represents farmers – men in the shadows – who manipulate this round-robin game with the help of accessories. By interacting with the repeated activity of the first group, they try to control the initial architecture of this fragmented landscape. Within this agricultural metaphor, viewers will be able to move freely from their seats to the stage, and will therefore have several viewpoints. BEING AN ARTIST ON THE TERRESTRIAL STAGE Science fiction has well and truly hooked us, so the creators of REVOLUTION AGRAIRE have played with the term ‘anthropocene’,7 which is widely discussed by the scientific community. The term implies that the actions of the human species are a real geophysical force: transforming spaces, landscapes and ecosystems. To explore their AnthropoScène, they have also developed dramatic, visual, choreographic, narrative and audio blueprints. 7 Change in geological era said to have begun in the late 18th century with the industrial revolution: a period that takes into account the growing influence of humans and their intellectual and technological power on the Earth’s ecosystem. PRACTICAL INFORMATION THEATRE DES VARIETES 1 Boulevard Albert 1er, 98000 MONACO, 00 377 93 25 67 83 Car park: LA CONDAMINE. Rates: from 7 pm / €0.10 for 20 mins For more information please contact: LE LOGOSCOPE Registered office: 25 Av. Crovetto Frères, MC 98000 MONACO, 00 33 6 62 83 38 01 agnesroux@lelogoscope.com www.lelogoscope.com LES ATELIERS DU LOGOSCOPE Former Crédit Lyonnais building, Place de la Crémaillère, Monaco/Beausoleil Car parks: CASINO OR ST CHARLES Press kit – Le Logoscope 18th anniversary celebration (French, English and Italian) http://www.lelogoscope.com/espace-pro/ ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES MIMOZA KOÏKE Dancer/Choreographer Born in 1982 in Tokyo (Japan). Lives in Roquebrune-Cap Martin and works in Monaco. From 1998 to 2000 she studied dance at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse of Lyon. She graduated with flying colours. She continued her training at the Jeune Ballet du Conservatoire of Lyon. In 2001, she joined the Ballet du Grand Théâtre of Geneva. In 2003, she joined Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo under the direction of Jean-Christophe Maillot. In 2005, she was promoted to the rank of soloist. Since then, Mimoza Koike has been the company's leading principal dancer. Mimoza Koike boasts both fantastic artistic qualities and rare technical skill, making her popular with the choreographers selected by Jean-Christophe Maillot such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jiri Kylián, William Forsythe, Johan Inger, Matjash Mrozewski, Emio Greco, Pieter C. Scholten, Inna Yohanson and Alexander Ekmann as well as repertoire pieces by choreographers such as George Balanchine, Nijinski and Maurice Béjart. Thanks to JeanChristophe Maillot's Les Imprévus and the ESAP, since 2007 she has developed her choreography work and is the brain behind pieces such as "Voisinages" (2007), "U Turn" (2008) in collaboration with Jérôme Marchand, "Rossignols" (2010), as well as "Ichi Ni San" and "Kodama" (2012). In 2008, she also showcased her "Amenimo" solo during a Gala in Tokyo. She has been the Artistic Director of the Logoscope's stage arts hub since 2010. AGNES ROUX Mix media artist Born in 1971 in Monaco. Lives and works in Monaco. In 1999, she completed her full programme of studies at the Villa Arson (Nice). She was awarded her DNSEP (Art stream) in 2008 from the École des Beaux-Arts of Aix-enProvence. In 1997, she founded the Logoscope multiple media artistic research laboratory, of which she is both Artistic Director and Chairwoman. Agnès Roux has been a lecturer in film at the Pavillon Bosio - École Supérieure d’Arts Plastiques in the city of Monaco since 1999. Her research and artistic productions are based on weaving a set of narrative threads and visual tales that combine the documentary and the fictional, in which video creations serve as a driving force for the different projects and fields she explores. Her artistic work has resulted in a polymorphous practice (multiple media) that ranges from installation to stage design via author commissioning, drawing, ceramics, video, performance and stage work. Agnès Roux regularly lends her expertise to different establishments and artists such as the NUA association - Little constallation (San Marino) from 2005 to 2013, the Monaco Dance Forum between 2004 and 2006, La Cambre École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels, Brussels in 2013. Her latest video installation is LOST CROWN, produced in collaboration with Mimoza Koïke (principal dancer with Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo) and Pierre Frolla (sportsman, defender of Monaco's coast and free immersion record-holder) in 2012-13. It was part of a collective touring exhibition entitled THE SEA IS MY LAND, under the high commission of Francesco Bonnami and Emanuela Mazzonis (Maxxi-Romes, Triennale di Milano, etc.). BRUNO ROQUE Dancer/Choreographer Born in 1977 in Lisbon (Portugal). A graduate of the National Conservatory in Portugal in 1995, he studied at the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg in Russia until 1996. His teachers were among others Boris Bregvhdze Alexander Proya Diane Gray, George Garcia, Glen Tuggle, Igor Belsky, Ivan Kramer, Marika Besobrasova Natalia Dudinskaya and Patricia Neary. He joined the National Ballet of Portugal, where he became a soloist in 1999. In August 2001, he was hired by the Royal Ballet of Flanders and will be promoted in 2002. He joined Les Ballets de Monte Carlo in 2004. Among the works he interpreted include Cinderella, Belle, The Dream and Romeo and Juliet by Jean-Christophe Maillot ansi as works by William Forsythe, Maurice Béjart and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. As part of the "Contingencies" Ateliers Monte Carlo Ballet, Bruno Roque also created dance pieces like (For) Play (2012), Crimes exemplaires (2013) Kyklone (2014). LESLIE BOURGEOIS Set and costume designer Born in 1984 in Albi (France). Lives and works between Paris and Monaco. A 2008 graduate of the set design school Pavillon Bosio, over the course of her studies she designed set designs in collaboration with Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. In 2010, she joined the Logoscope - a multiple media artistic research centre in Monaco - where she developed her visual art work and contributed to live performance and video shows as a set and costume designer. Since 2007, Leslie has also worked in dyeing and patina techniques within the costume department of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo under the direction of Jean-Michel Lainé. Since 2012, she has been involved in theatre projects with young theatre companies (Atelier théâtre de l’Estrade, Compagnie Charles est stone, etc.). As vice-president of the theatre establishment Le Lieu Exact, she is also working on the set design for "La Duchesse", directed by Clément Peyon. Le Lieu Exact has been resident at the MJC Club de Créteil since 2012, during which time Leslie oversaw the "Balhaus" research workshop for a month. After having exhibited visual artwork for the "Les Salons de Lily" exhibition in Aix-en-Provence in the summer of 2013, alongside her professional activities she takes acting classes given by Jerzy Klesyk at the Cours Florent. CHRISTIAN SELVATICO Mix media artist Born in 1975 in Menton (France). Lives in Roquebrune-Cap Martin and works in Monaco. After having obtained his DNSEP with Honours from the École Supérieure d’Arts Plastiques of the City of Monaco, Christian Selvatico quickly joined the Grimaldi Forum's Cultural Events department team and has since worked as an exhibition technician there. He is mainly responsible for two touring exhibitions: "Les Années Grace Kelly, Princesse de Monaco" - Commissioned by Frédéric Mitterrand: Paris (2008), Moscow (2008), Rome (2010), Sao Paulo (2011) and "Grace Kelly Style Icon" - Commissioned by Jenny Lister from the V&A Museum: London (2010), Toronto (2011), Bendigo/Australia (2012). His artistic work is constantly evolving. Following the "OUC" project (installation/performance) in the "Si tu as faim, mange ta main" exhibition by Agnès Roux & the Logoscope in Monaco in 2009 and his noteworthy "wall-painting-moon-performance" for the "EstOuest" exhibition by Thomas Negrevergne and Arnaud Rolland, he has been devoting more time and energy to rock music in his capacity as bassist for the band 'Gasoline'. Passionate about science, fiction and unexplained phenomena, he continues to reassess his inner world with fervour and a touch of humour, and is focused on lending his quest form and shape. ASIER EDESO Dancer/Choreographer Born in 1986 in San Sebastian (Spain). From 2005 to 2006, he joined the Scottish Ballet directed by Ashley Page. He plays the role of Cinderella in Cobbler (Ashley page), it also dance Suite for artifact (William Forsythe) and In Light and Shadow (Krzysztof Pastor). From 2006 to 2008, he joined the Ballet du Rhin under the direction of Bertrand At. It interprets many parts of the choreographer: Romeo and Juliet, Prince of the Pagodas, Ditcherliebe. He also dances: Marteau sans maître (solo Limon) and change for a door and a sigh (Maurice Béjart) Last room for anybody, Coppelia, Nutcraker (role of the father) choreographer Jo Stromgren, Rossignol, Dance (Lucinda Childs), Theme and Variations (George Balanchine) Work Within work (William Forsythe), Les Noces (Jacopo Godani). In 2008, he joined the Ballets de Monte-Carlo led by Jean-Christophe Maillot. It interprets Most ballet choreographer such as La Belle, Romeo and Juliet (one of two acolytes), Cinderella (Superintendent of pleasure), The Dream (tradesman), Scheherazade, Faust (Lucifer), LAC (the confidant of the prince, an archangel) Choré (assistant director), The Nutcracker Company Altro Canto I, Altro Canto II, Opus 40, Opus 50, Men's dance for woman. Asier Edeso also performs works entries in the company's repertoire or created by choreographers invited to Les Ballets de Monte Carlo: The Prodigal Son (George Balanchine), Body Remix (Marie Chouinard), The Rite of Spring (Maurice Béjart), The Rite of Spring (V. Nijinsky), New Sleep (son) William Forsythe, Dearest earthly friend (Marco Goecke) Ballet Corps (Emio Greco). As part of the "Contingencies" in which young dancers trying to choreographer profession, he interprets Memory House (Anja Behrend) and Persistent Sequence (Joseph Hernandez).