Monologues is presented through a series of performances spread out through time and space. Each of them takes its shape in distinct venues and time. This trimester, Monologues #1, #3 and #4 will be presented at Arsenic.

Backwards to the concept of monologue, usually evoking a solo and egocentrical discourse, the choreographer Nicole Seiler explores here the monologue as a collective shape. The monologues are in dialogue, listening and answering, all the way to creating a polyphony of self-poetry.

What does it mean to have a voice? What does a voice say when its wordless? What does a body say when its voiceless?

The Monologues offers a space to nourish and cherish multi-faceted and moving identities. They reveal both idiosyncrasies and transversalities, through the ways in which each performer expresses themselves and begins to exist here and now. Hoping along the way to be heard and seen.

Born in 1997 and of French nationality, Collin Cabanis graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Dance at the Manufacture – Haute Ecole des Arts de la Scène in Lausanne in June 2020. During his training, he studied with Thomas Hauert, Martin Kilvady, David Zambrano, Eugénie Rebetez and Horacio Macuacua.
He has performed with Alix Eynau- di, Nicole Seiler, Collectif Ouinch Ouinch and Trisha Brown.

In 2019 he co-founded the Collectif Foulles, with whom he creates his own projects.

Nicole Seiler a fondé sa compagnie en 2002 et a créé plus de trente projets à ce jour.
Elle a su s’imposer comme une figure incontournable de la scène suisse de danse contemporaine.
Sa recherche donne naissance à des projets novateurs et singuliers dans une multitude de formats : des spectacles chorégraphiques scéniques, des vidéos et films, des performances et des installations chorégraphiques souvent in situ qui gardent le public dans l’interprétation.
Ces dernières années sa réflexion sur la relation entre l’image et le son se penche plus particulièrement sur la description du mouvement, l’exploration du langage dansé en relation avec son pendant articulé et la mémoire du mouvement d’un point de vue historique ou personnel.
Enfin, ceci l’a amenée à développer un intérêt pour le travail vocal, et à travers son usage faire du corps un instrument total.
Nicole Seiler a reçu de nombreux prix, parmis lesquelles le prix Suisse des Arts de la Scène en 2021.