Vox, the word on the tip of the tongue
Proposed by the Rose des Vents, national stage (Villeneuve d'Ascq)
Creation: Compagnie La Balbutie
Conception and interpretation: Juliette Plihon (voice)
and game) and Nicolas Perrin alternating with Christine
Moreau (electronic live)
Directed by: Camille Roux
Light creation and scenography construction:
Stéphane Bottard
Costumes and accessories: Marleen Rocher
On stage, two performers listen and vibrate the sounds, breaths and syllables. The singer-actress tries to catch them, juggles with their echoes; she explores the extent of her voice as does the young child who discovers language, her language.
The sound creator bounces, models and spatializes live these sounds, these words already in gestation.
The playing space is littered with hanging globes, posed vases, each of which is the laboratory of vocal experiments, creating an alchemy of consonants and vowels, sounds and mixed senses. The singer plays with these jars, plunges a face, a hand, she captures the melodies that inhabit her, the voices that surround her. His body metamorphoses and marries the forms of the sounds that his musician partner modulates.
The whole scenography becomes sound and begins to dialogue. The voice gradually becomes language, then singing and builds a decor where the boundary between artists and the public fades. Murmurs, songs, cries, stammering, talks respond joyfully. Vox, the word on the tip of the tongue thus makes the voice its material of creation and invents a shared and liberating musical language.