Mirror,
Mirror
Created July 2009 for Les Sujets à Vif, SACD – Avignon Festival
Duo // Duration: 30 min
Designed for indoor and outdoor performance
A mirror.
Such a simple object, but one that resonates through cinema, history, mythology and fairytale. By bringing us face to face with ourselves, it provokes enduring existential questions.
When we look ourselves straight in the eye, what does it tell us of our own strength? Does the surface truly reveal the character that lies behind it? Because one can always try to save appearances, and, in reality, our reflections always lie…
Mirror, Mirror unites sound and chorography to create an interior world where meaning is subjective and slippery, and uncanny images escape from between moments of silence and stillness.
Figaro blog, Armelle Héliot
22 july 2009
‘Mélissa Von Vépy offers a moment of aerial grace and poetry, accompanied on the piano by Stephan Oliva. Beautiful, upsetting, sublime. A half-hour of pure beauty. Between the sharpness of the mirror and the solidity of the trapeze, a small aerial window opens by which Mélissa von Vépy, like an aerial enchantress, comes and goes, bringing something of the spirituality that one seeks in art. We feel her mastery of this magical and poetic art. We cry and applaud her.’.
TEAM
Concept, Performance : Mélissa Von Vépy
Original Music, Piano : Stephan Oliva
Dramaturg : Angélique Willkie
Lighting Design : Xavier Lazarini
Set Construction : Dominique Grand
Costume Design : Suzanne Maia
Technical Manager : Sabine Charreire or Matthieu Houlet
Production, Tour Management : Marie Attard
Administration : Jean-Baptiste Clement
Production
Cie Happés // Mélissa Von Vépy
Coproduction
SACD – Festival d’Avignon
The musical composition has benefited from the support of the SACD
Acknowledgments
Our thanks go to Raphaëlle Von Vépy, Andy, Paul Despioch, Claude Fissé and Isabelle Périllat,
as well as to the teams that welcomed us in Brussels at
l’Ecole Supérieure des Arts du Cirque,
Théâtre de la Roseraie,
and Le Centre Culturel et de Congrès de Woluwe St-Pierre.
photo : Christophe Raynaud de Lage