Falling silently > Festival in situ

Lyric Tragedy
Élise Dabrowski

Produced from sound and visual archives collected online, Falling Without Noise is freely inspired by the industrial and social drama of a large French group, a leader in clothing: Vivarte.
At the beginning of the 2000s, it is a giant with around twenty brands (La Halle, André, ...) and employs more than 20,000 people. Twenty years later, the Group is liquidated, its last employees are laid off in general indifference.
On stage, employees and executives dialogue with a chorus of loudspeakers installed in ready-to-wear mannequins and reenact the echoes of an announced fall, blending their voices with electronics and the trombone, a new aulos that harks back to the early days of ancient tragedy.

With
The employee Angèle Chemin
The CEOs, one voice Vincent Vantyghem
The chorus leader Élise Dabrowski
Trombone and an employee Christiane Bopp
Electronics and an employee Eric Broitmann
Recorded voices Camille Merckx, Aurore Bouston

Staging Jean-Benoît Nison
Sound Anaïs Georgel
Lights Gildas Goujet
Scenography Franck Jamin

Composition Élise Dabrowski
Composition and live electronics Eric Broitmann
Co-composition Christiane Boop

Production Trepak
Co-production La Pop artistic and citizen incubator, La Muse en circuit, National Center for Musical Creation - Alfortville, Césaré, National Center for Musical Creation - Reims, the Théâtre de Cornouaille national stage of Quimper, the Abbey of Noirlac.
Libretto based on an original idea by Antoine Veyronnet and texts from former employees and executives of the Vivarte group, by Élise Dabrowski and Sophocles.
Photo © Romain AL