An airbone lecture
the aerial
An airbone lecture
Artistic creation at Vergèze 2017
Solo // Duration: 35 min
Available for theatres, outdoor settings, classrooms, lecture halls…
‘To become light or stay weighted down? Within this dilemma, some minds may sum up all the dramas of human destiny.’
Gaston Bachelard
Mélissa Von Vépy gives an (airborne) lecture on humanity and flight.
The history and mythology of flight, the concepts of gravity, weightlessness, lightness – at first, everything is approached from poetic, scientific and philosophical perspectives. But as the winds start to rise, the intellectual and literary give way to the body and its sensations, and our lecturer, quite literally carried away, begins to take off…
Danser, Sophie Lesort
october 2017
‘ …Magnificent acrobat but also dancer, Mélissa Von Vépy who received the “Art du cirque” award from the SACD offers a very beautiful, intelligent and original visual performance on the inaccessible dream…’
La Grande Parade, Julie Cadhilac
12 october 2017
‘ …The comedian is there (the children laugh in connivance from the beginning), poetry settles in with as much delicacy as strength… and you end up thinking you really thought you saw Super Woman flying over our heads, her shadow surprisingly split on each side of her! 35 sparkling and intelligent minutes?… it can’t be refused! ‘
TEAM
Design, Performance : Mélissa Von Vépy
Text, Direction : Pascale Henry
Stage Design and Build : Neil Price
Sound Design : Jean-Damien Ratel
Lighting Design : Xavier Lazarini
Costume Design : Catherine Sardi
Production, Tour Management : Marie Attard / Playtime
Administration : Jean-Baptiste Clément
Touring : Marie Greffier
Production
Cie Happés // Mélissa Von Vépy
Coproduction
La Verrerie d’Alès – Pôle National Cirque Occitanie
Théâtre Molière-Sète, scène nationale archipel de Thau
FUNDERS AND SUPPORTERS
Le Conseil Général du Gard
photo : Christophe Raynaud de Lage