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.

The performance with Clara Delorme takes place over an extended duration, allowing the audience to enter and leave freely.

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.

Clara Delorme is a French artist based in Lausanne. As a dancer, she has worked for Nicole Seiler, Dalila Belaza, Mark Lorimer and Yasmine Hugonnet, among others.
In her projects, she creates monochrome spaces and the characters that inhabit them. She likes to use colors one by one, imagining a world and a character for each one.
With each creation, she seeks to give space to what human beings possess that doesn’t need much space to shine and be beautiful: like being strange, old-fashioned and disconnected, or deep sadness.
In 2020, she wins the PREMIO prize for her piece Malgrés (green), and in 2022, she is selected for the Swiss Dance Days with her piece L’albâtre (white). In 2023, she was awarded the Label+ Romand for Le repos (blue).
She is co-founder of Arts_sainement, an association fighting discrimination and abuse in the performing arts, and of LIEU COMMUN, a research residency and meeting place in Lausanne.
In 2024/2025 she is living in Rome as part of a ten-month residency at the Istituto Svizzero, where she is working on various projects in a variety of formats.

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.