Neo Romance
Neo Romance
A show by Alexandra Stréliski
Alexandra Stréliski, the pianist known for her sensitive and evocative musical style, is back on stage with a show inspired by her latest album, *Néo-Romance*
Wrapped in an immersive scenography designed in collaboration with the French creators of Cirque Le Roux, the composer breaks the boundaries of the neoclassical genre, traveling through various visual tableaux inspired by major art movements throughout history. Between intimacy and vastness, Alexandra invites you to reflect, take a pause, and dream.
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr
Delegated production / Set design / Poster by Cirque Le Roux
Born in Austria in 1914, Hedy Lamarr's image as an actress changed very quickly. In 1934, she played an orgasm in Extase for the first time in the history of cinema. This scene gave her a sulphurous reputation that would never leave her. She left Austria, became a naturalised American and signed with the biggest Hollywood studios. But Hedy Lamarr defied appearances. Although she was named "the most beautiful woman in the world", she was secretly a genius inventor, far from the film sets. In the middle of the war, she invented a multitude of things: rationing systems for soldiers, frequency hopping torpedo guidance to help European refugees cross the ocean, as well as the beginnings of Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth...
The Revenge of Vivanne Rose
The Revenge of Vivanne Rose
A show by Jackie Star et Cie
Delegated production / Set design / Poster by Cirque Le Roux
The show
Viviane Rose, dressed in blue satin, with shaggy hair and a cigarette in her mouth, starts her 4th whisky of the morning... Viviane is an opera singer. Well, she used to be... Because after her last scandal at La Scala in 1965, when she slapped, bit and pushed her partner, the famous tenor Tito Ruggiero, into the audience, she was thrown out of the business and condemned by the press. Viviane has not sung since. Financial difficulties have been mounting.
It's almost 11 o'clock this morning when Georges, her butler, brings her coffee, pills and buttered toast on both sides into the parlour. That's when everything changed. A little bird on the windowsill began to sing. Viviane, between two clears of throat, spins out a few vocalisations. A miracle! Georges has the idea of putting her back on stage by any means necessary to replenish the coffers. Noël, Viviane's son and a soldier, arrives unexpectedly. Georges, hiding guilty secrets, has his back to the wall, and, unable to tell him about the money problems, makes him believe that his mother is ill... This is the start of a gigantic imbroglio, which will go from lies to misunderstandings, from kidnapping to disguises, from pretence to stunts, but to what end? Whatever happens, Viviane must sing again!
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The Odyssey
The Odyssey
Based on the podcast by Laure Grandbesançon
Set design / Costumes by Cirque Le Roux
Working together
We wanted to take the actors and the audience into a mysterious and playful world. The Odyssey office is a place where anything can happen, the possibilities are endless, a window can hide the arrival of a boat, a luxuriant forest, a door, a tomb, a growing tree... Our aim was to find an identity for the podcast, to give it its own signature. We wanted to create an interchangeable space, where each element could be replaced and/or modified for future editions.
Set design by Gregory Arsenal and Philip Rosenberg of Cirque Le Roux
The show
History is full of extraordinary men and women, madcap destinies and, above all, mysteries... Laure, the lady from Les Odyssées, and her lifelong accomplice Jimmy, the waiter at the Happy Nouilles restaurant, are leading the investigation! Who is Jeanne Barret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe? How did Howard Carter discover the tomb of Tutankhamen? Will the three astronauts on the Apollo 13 mission make it back to Earth?
From Antiquity to the present day, embark on three wild adventures that will take you from Brazil to Tahiti, via Houston, the moon, Egypt and the dangerous Straits of Magellan. On the seas, underground and in space, Laure and Jimmy will stop at nothing... Welcome to the Odyssey Office, the secret office where all the mysteries of history are solved.
Inscape
INSCAPE
A show by Alexandra Streliski
Setting at stage / Scenography by Le Cirque Le Roux
The word "inscape" refers to the singularity of each human being, but it also means "interior landscapes" or "to escape inwardly". The staging of INSCAPE takes the audience on a journey of a poetic and visual journey, symbolising the period of life thatAlexandra Stréliski went through during the years in which the album was conceived. "Those years were full of upheavals, existential crises and passages through various ′′inner states′′ within me," explains the pianist, "I wanted to bring the audience into my bubble and go through the different chapters of that period with them again.
Several visual aspects taken from the album have been integrated into the set design: illustrations by Elisabeth Gravel, graphic design by Catherine Pelletier and some archive images taken from the video of "Plus tôt" directed by Edith Jorisch. Audiences will plunge into the world of these artists, who drew their inspiration from Alexandra Stréliski's music and from the meaning of the word 'inscape' in their own lives. Gregory Arsenal and Philip Rosenberg, from Cirque Le Roux, have staged these various elements, working on contrasts, light and movement to create an atmosphere that is both intimate and grandiose, inviting us to take an inner journey. The show is constructed like a moving cinematographic work, with a common thread recalling the different stages of a life upheaval. The stage, for its part, is conceived as a reflective space whose boundaries with the audience are blurred.
Audiences will be invited to travel through the pianist's very personal memories and emotions, but also enveloped in a world that we hope will take them on a journey of their own.
In short, INSCAPE is an intimate, poetic and visual experience, but it is also part of the artist's search for meaning. "It's also my wish to share certain states of vulnerability that I've been through, to awaken the fragility that we share as human beings, and so perhaps feel less alone," concludes Alexandra.
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