Whispers
Cie Mossoux-Bonté
- Dance
- Visual theater
A woman stands alone on stage. Her gestures gradually resonate with ambient vibrations and strange apparitions. In "Whispers", Nicole Mossoux partners live sound with her movements, creating a strange, inhabited performance from start to finish.
On stage, a lone woman. Alone or perhaps not. It appears that the space is inhabited. An expression of furtive presences, muffled sounds and finally phantom-like figures that appear suddenly here and there, occupying the space more and more, whispering in our ear, rising up into the image like the guardians of a secret. Are they not the lost souls that endlessly wander, disturbing our present with their irreparable past?
A woman is there, a woman who cannot tell what is speaking in her; if it’s her own experience or that of her ancestors. She tries to decipher the murmuring that so furiously resembles a conspiracy against the living. How to escape the chain of generations – and by which exit? How to live a dawn not marred by the night?
Whispers, a clinking of souls, a rumble of recollections and the ancestors who stumble onto the scene.
In previous performances Nicole Mossoux has already explored the different forms of interaction possible with marionettes, shadows and object manipulation. This time she is in engagement with the world of sound that echoes her haunted movements.
In the centre of the stage a silhouette borrowed from one of Vermeer’s tableaux, tirelessly leaves and returns to the same point in space, bringing along animated silhouettes that seem to emerge from her own body: impetuous ectoplasms or gangly spectres appear suddenly, inopportune, with intentions that are at the very least unclear. The use of live sounds give them a paradoxical consistence when the living character is supplanted by the phantoms she created.
© Mikha Wajnrych
Grande salle
From 16 years old
Concept and performance Nicole Mossoux
Choreography and direction Nicole Mossoux
In collaboration with Patrick Bonté
Sound effects and sound objects Mikha Wajnrych
Microphones, live music and sound management Thomas Turine
Costumes Colette Huchard
Make-up Jean-Pierre Finotto
Set design Johan Daenen
Light Patrick Bonté
Lighting control David Jans
Technical management Jean-Jacques Deneumoustier
A production by Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté, with the support of Théâtre de la Balsamine, Théâtre Le Passage (Fécamp), Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, service de la danse and Wallonie-Bruxelles International
Tuesday 3 February, 7.15pm (free admission):
Screening at Salle l’Envers of Intempéries, a film by Cie Mossoux-Bonté (running time: 24′). When certainties collapse and familiar people seem to be part of a grand conspiracy.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Cie Mossoux-Bonté, we are reviving two of their shows: Whispers, created in 2015, and Histoire de l’imposture, created in 2013. Find out about all the performance dates planned for the 40th anniversary of Cie Mossoux-Bonté in Brussels and Wallonia at mossoux-bonte.be