© Reto Schmid
© Reto Schmid
© Reto Schmid

PRICE (CH)

Melodies are so far my best friend

Dans le cadre de la Fête de la Danse

  • 80'
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Direction artistique: PRICE (Mathias Ringgenberg). Musique et performance: PRICE. Production musicale: Cecile Believe. Piano: Sebastian Hirsig. Lumières et caméra: Mirjam Graf. Costumes: en collaboration avec BARRAGÁN. Dramaturgie: Tom Engels. Recherche mouvement: Isabel Lewis. Coproduction: Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Tanzhaus Zürich, Life Long Burning/Projet européen.

In this era of over-consumption, where acceleration and insignificance rub shoulders, language often takes on reductive and normative meanings. PRICE – a hybrid character, created by Mathias Ringgenberg so as to take on a wide variety of perspectives – suggests that we explore his interstices thanks to performative musical actions, alongside the producer Cecile Believe and the pianist Sebastian Hirsig. In this new piece, he animates the performance space with the following questions: What are the identities of language today? What identities are made possible through language?