Joëlle Fontannaz

The title implies a story and a narrator telling it. In L’Événement (The Event), speech is not just at the core of the performance, speech IS the performance. In this polyphonic piece for three performers, Joëlle Fontannaz explores the question of the collective through the ancient Greek form of the chorus, revisited in a surprising, funny and subtly orchestrated narrative. Fontannaz questions the nature of the collective and its political dimension through theater, where the text, largely improvised according to a very precise framework, is performed anew with each iteration. Through prosody, space, lighting and costumes, she takes us from an ordinary, very contemporary situation to a mythological dimension that questions our humanity – from the trio of scouts to the myth of the cave and back again, always on the edge. On stage, Fontannaz performs alongside Mathias Glayre and Nina Langensand. Borrowing her extralucid gaze from the Greek soothsayer Tiresias, the artist invites us to open our eyes to a world on fire.