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ANIMA

Maelle Poésy
Noemie Goudal

14 > 16.03.2025
Installation – Performance

Anima unfolds across three giant screens showing landscapes in perpetual mutation. Guided by the haunting music of Chloé Thévenin, spectators observe the changing scenery, from the luxuriance of date palms to the emergence of a lunar desert, a striking metaphor for climate upheaval.

Drawing on research in palaeoclimatology and studies of our perceptions in closed environments, the two artists question our sensations and our need for spatial and temporal reference points.

During this visual journey, performer Mathilde Van Volsem, choreographed by Chloé Moglia, defies gravity by suspending herself in the void, as she embodies the fragility of our presence in this changing world. Her performance, somewhere between grace and tension, confronts us with our own vulnerability in the face of the forces of nature.

Calendar

Information

Duration

1hr

Venue

Grande salle

Kids

15 +

Price

€9 > €21

Cast

Co-conception
Noemie Goudal
Maelle Poésy

Writing of the Suspension
Chloé Moglia

Performance
Mathilde Van Volsem

Original music
Chloé Thévenin

Scenography
Hélène Jourdan

Lighting
Mathilde Chamoux

Costumes
Camille Vallat

Digital Operator, Optical Calculation
Alexis Allemand

Camera assistance
Julien Saez

Pyrotechnician
Léo Leroyer

Electro
Adrien Chata
Assisted by
Telma Langui

Head decorator
Thierry Jaulin
Assisted by
Eleonore Sense
Delphine Bachelard

General and stage management
Julien Poupon
Géraud Breton

Sound management
Samuel Babouillard

Video and lighting management
Pierre Mallaisé

Assistance
Clara Labrousse
Pauline Thoër

Production administration
Miléna Noirot
Assisted by
Adèle Jaffredo
Anouck Dureuil

Set construction
Eclectik Scéno

FILM :

Direction
Noemie Goudal
Maelle Poésy

Assistace director
Claude Guillouard

Script
Mylène Mostini

Chief operator
Julien Malichier

Props
Thomas Piffaut

Stage manager
Victoria Lanoy

Machinists
Olivier Georges
Guillaume Morandeau
Augustin de Vaumas

Postproduction
Méchant

Color grading
Serge Antony

Production
Clara Labrousse
Claude Guillouard

Assisté·e·s de
Aménophis Boum Make
Pauline Thoër

Intern
Salomé Fau

Appearances
Alexis Allemand
Aménophis Boum Make
Georges Olivier
Claude Guillouard
Maelle Poésy
Noemie Goudal
Thomas Piffaut
Graciela Walinsky

A performance-installation conceived and created by
Noemie Goudal
Maelle Poésy

Based on the work
Post Atlantica de Noemie Goudal

This project was born with the complicity of
Christoph Wiesner et des Rencontres d’Arles

Support
Production
Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne, CDN
Film production and scenographic device by
Mondes nouveaux, an unprecedented support program for the design and realization of artistic projects initiated by the Gouvernement as part of the volet Culture de France Relance*

Coproduction
Compagnie Crossroad ; Atelier Noemie Goudal ; Espace des Arts, Scène nationale de Chalon-sur-Saône ; L’Azimut – Pôle National Cirque en Île-de-France - Antony/Châtenay-Malabry

With the support of
Rhizome – Chloé Moglia, du FONPEPS Fondation Kering et Les Rencontres d’Arles, l’Institut français à Paris and de la Villa Albertine for international touring

ANIMA was created at the 76th edition of the Festival d'Avignon at La Collection Lambert

Christophe Raynaud De Lage
Le Rideau de saison, Maak & Transmettre · photo : Lucile Dizier, 2024