Histoire de l’imposture
Cie Mossoux-Bonté
- Dance
- Visual theater
Five eccentric figures expose themselves in a display of postures borrowed from social codes as well as from our private delusions, until the entire piece degenerates into a high-octane saraband, allowing them to finally drop the mask of appearances.
Everything is navigated under false pavilions, as Kafka said, and the “characters” in the performance are the first to testify to this… By ironizing a perfect adaptation of the artifice of social postures, the role-play and conformist norms that shape and lead us (today perhaps more than ever) into borrowed personalities. Time hasn’t changed the situation, meaning the whole story is recyclable in our world of appearances and formatted truths.
The performance also evokes the feeling of not being one with one’s intentions and desires, of not embodying one’s own self, of feeling constantly partitioned and pretending to live while not being in one’s right place and of being finally, an imposter…
How to escape such a problematic? How to break out of a resemblance, out of what’s false or what is approximative, of what’s borrowed and ambiguous? Perhaps by letting oneself be possessed and carried away by the kind of savage energy that liberates the “characters” from that which is nothing more than a human comedy – and which overflows from them: outside and beyond themselves, their doubts and their small impostures without history…
© Thibault Gregoire
Grande salle
From 16 years old
Concept Patrick Bonté
Direction and choreography Patrick Bonté
In collaboration with Nicole Mossoux
Performance Sébastien Jacobs, Frauke Mariën, Maxence Rey, Marco Torrice, Éléonore Valère-Lachky
Music and sound management Thomas Turine
Light Patrick Bonté
Costumes Colette Huchard, assisted by Patty Eggerickx
Make-up Véronique Lacroix
Coiffure Fyl Sangdor
Set design Didier Payen
Costume design Isabelle Airaud, Nalan Kosar, Catriona Petty (interns Marie Dohet, Pauline Miguet)
Building the set Olivier Waterkeyn, Max La Roche
Painting the decor Eugénie Obolenski
Sewing the decor Sylvie Tevenard
Régie lumière David Jans, Hugues Girard
Support Céline Ohrel
Technical management Jean-Jacques Deneumoustier
A production by Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté, in coproduction with Charleroi Danses – Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, La Rose des Vents – Scène nationale Lille Métropole, Villeneuve d’Ascq and Théâtre Paul Eluard – Scène conventionnée, Bezons (France) | With the support of Théâtre Varia, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, service de la danse, Wallonie-Bruxelles International and COCOF
Friday 6 February, 7.15pm (free admission):
Screening at Salle l’Envers of Rien de réel, a film by Cie Mossoux-Bonté (running time: 24‘) and its making-of (running time: 12’). Now that Russia has got rid of the USSR, the First Party Secretary of Krasnoiarsk-26 (Eastern Siberia) speaks out after years of hesitation.
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