Adina Secretan

Une bonne histoire / A good story

Theatre / 1h20

08 – 18 July / 19h

Off on the 10th and 14th

Has Nestlégate been resolved? Adina Secretan doesn’t think so, despite the court’s ruling. Who remembers that in the 2000’s, young women who were recruited via a private security agency infiltrated activist groups to spy on them on behalf of the global company? Using theatre to revisit history, Secretan shows us that there are many holes in this case. The more we go beneath the surface, the more opaque things become, particularly when it comes to human relations. A committed multidisciplinary artist and choreographer with a strong focus on politics, Adina Secretan is interested in the traces shadow practices leave on the body, be it individual bodies or the social body. Far from claiming to bring all the answers, she proposes a show which feeds from all these questions, and reveals a complex landscape, fleshed out by two actresses and their subtle performance.

Research and staging Adina Secretan
Performers Joëlle Fontannaz and Claire Forclaz
Thanks to all the people who helped in the research process, by contributing with their testimonies and their knowledge
Puppet design, costumes and accessories Severine Besson
Light design and stage lighting Florian Leduc
Staging assistant Marine Brosse
Sound Benoît Moreau
Lead tech Redwan Reys
Legal consultants Me Luisa Bottarelli, Collectif d’avocat.e.s, Lausanne
Diffusion Clémence Faravel

Production La Section Lopez
Coproduction Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne
Coproduction and research residencies Le Grütli – centre de production et de diffusion des Arts vivants, Genève
With the support of Canton de Vaud, the City of Lausanne, Loterie romande, Leenaards Foundation, Ernst Göhner Foundation

biography

Adina Secretan trained in contemporary dance, contemporary literature, philosophy and staging in La Manufacture ; she works in the performing arts, in Switzerland and abroad. She was associated artist with far°, festival des arts vivants, in Nyon from 2017 to 2019. Her pieces and her collaborations (for example with choreographers like Eilit Marom, Elpida Orfanidou, Anna Massoni, Simone Truong, or the Chilean collective MIL M2) were programmed in many venues and festivals such as Arsenic, Les Printemps, Les Urbaines in Lausanne, La Bâtie in Geneva, Gessnerallee Zürich, Parallèle festival in Marseille, Bâtard, Beursschouwburg in Brussells, les Rencontres Chorégraphiques, Het Veem in Amsterdam, Nave in Santiago de Chile… She was also part of the selection for the Swiss Dance Days in 2017 with “PLACE”. She has accompanied other artists, choreographers, directors and performers as a staging manager or as an artistic collaborator. Her latest piece, “Une Bonne Histoire” which was created in l’Arsenic in May 2022, toured in various venues and festivals such as festival de la Cité in Lausanne and La Bâtie, and with Grütli, a center for the production and dissemination of Performing Arts in Geneva.