Extra Life

About

At the end of a night spent partying, a sister and a brother find each other. Twenty years ago, when they were still children, they were united by a fusional link that was to be torn apart by a dramatic event. Acknowledging the collapse of the system which provoked this traumatic experience, the two adults, endowed with a newly-found sensibility and capacity for analysis, draw up a range of actions and possible future. In Extra Life, Gisèle Vienne pursues her investigations into systems of perception. By developing and unfurling the experience of this life-changing moment, this opening-up of the senses, the choreographer invents a form in which the different strata of the present experience come into contact: past, present, anticipated future, memory construction, and the imagination. An extremely dense choreographic piece, Extra Life was devised via the articulation of propositions from the performers themselves, with the music by Caterina Barbieri, sound design by Adrien Michel and lighting by Yves Godin. In order to formulate the perceptive hierarchies, Gisèle Vienne makes use of a system of collages, developed in conjunction with the performers Katia Petrowick, Adèle Haenel and Theo Livesey. We are confronted with a stage language of a unique kind, in which the sense-led experiences nourish possibilities for the thought and spoken word.

Cast and creatives

Performers: Adèle Haenel, Theo Livesey, Katia Petrowick

Conceived, choreographed, directed and designed by Gisèle Vienne
Created in collaboration with and performed by Adèle Haenel, Theo Livesey and Katia Petrowick
Original music: Caterina Barbieri
Sound design: Adrien Michel
Lighting design: Yves Godin in collaboration with Gisèle Vienne
Texts: Adèle Haenel, Theo Livesey, Katia Petrowick, Gisèle Vienne
Costumes: Gisèle Vienne, Camille Queval, FrenchKissLA
Doll making: Etienne Bideau-Rey, Nicolas Herlin
Stage manager: Antoine Hordé
Sound engineer: Adrien Michel
Light manager: Samuel Dosière, Iannis Japiot
Technical coordination: Samuel Dosière
Special thanks to Elsa Dorlin, Etienne Hunsinger, Sandra Lucbert, Romane Rivol, Anja Röttgerkamp, Sabrina Lonis, Maya Masse, Giovanna Rua, Lina Hinsky, Erik Houillier, Andrea Kerr
Assistant: Sophie Demeyer
Production and diffusion: Alma Office Anne-Lise Gobin, Camille Queval
Administration: Cloé Haas, Clémentine Papandrea

Produced by DACM / Compagnie Gisèle Vienne
Coproduction: Ruhrtriennale – Festival der Künste (Bochum); Théâtre National de Bretagne – Centre Européen Théâtral et Chorégraphique; MC93 - Maison de la
Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis; MC2: Grenoble – Maison de la Culture; Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse; Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne; TANDEM Scène nationale (Douai-Arras); Points Communs – Nouvelle Scène nationale de Cergy Pontoise; CND Centre national de la danse; Comédie de Genève; Le Volcan – Scène nationale du Havre; Centre Culturel André Malraux – Scène nationale de Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy; NTGent (Gand); Printemps des Comédiens – Cité européenne du théâtre Domaine d'O Montpellier; Festival d'Automne à Paris; La Comédie de Clermont scène nationale; International Summer Festival Kampnagel (Hambourg); Triennale Milano Teatro; Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna); La Filature, Scène nationale de Mulhouse
The Compagnie Gisèle Vienne is subsidised by the Ministry of Culture and receives support from the Drac Grand Est, the Région Grand Est and the City of Strasbourg
Gisèle Vienne is an associate artist of Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse; the MC2: Grenoble – Maison de la Culture; the Volcan – Scène nationale du Havre; the Théâtre National de Bretagne (Rennes).

The MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse and the Festival d'Automne à Paris are co-producers and co-presenters of this performance.
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels