canicular

2024

30 minutes

For this commission from the Festival d’Avignon and the SACD, Rebecca Journo invites sound artist Diane Barbé for a performance centered around the song of cicadas. Produced by the vibration of their membranes, this song rises with the temperature, becoming a marker of heat. Immersing herself in this microcosm, Rebecca Journo brings back visions of insect-women and hallucinatory drought. To the psychedelic modulations of Diane Barbé, her dance reanimates scorched bodies

Choreography and interpretation Rebecca Journo

Music Diane Barbé

Outside view Véronique Lemonnier

Costume Coline Ploquin

Sound managment Mathieu Bonnafous

Administration, production, distribution La Pieuvre

Production La Pieuvre

Coproduction SACD, Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers, Le Petit Écho de la Mode (Châtelaudren)

Support La Lisière résidence de création artistique (Saint-Agnan-en-Vercors), La Métive (Moutier-d’Ahun), Atelier de Paris Centre de développement chorégraphique national, Klap Maison pour la danse (Marseille), Boom’Structur Pôle chorégraphique (Clermont-Ferrand)

canicular was created as part of Vive le sujet ! Tentatives, Festival d'Avignon 2024.

Rebecca Journo (collective La Pieuvre) is associated with the Atelier de Paris Centre de développement chorégraphique national from 2025 to 2027.

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