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ABOUT
ABOUT
Nine officiants take the stage and begin to praise. They sing, chant, testify, and dance their way through the world’s vast repertoire of devotion, gestures, and phrases gathered across faiths, cultures, and contexts and set loose in a single rite. Part concert, part ceremony, part something with no name yet, Joris Lacoste‘s Nexus de l’adoration asks a live question: with the old certainties gone, what does a fractured age still gather to worship?
Fresh from its premiere at the Festival d’Avignon, the piece is by turns hypnotic, funny, and genuinely strange, a service for no religion in particular that turns collective attention into its true subject. Avignon called it a world where nine officiants sing, dance, and speak; the Festival d’Automne, a ceremony that looks a little like a musical. It closes NYU Skirball’s fall with communal attention itself as the medium.
Presented in conjunction with L’Alliance New York’s Crossing the Line Festival.
Three reasons to go
Three reasons to go
GENRE-DEFYING – A ceremony that fuses pop, liturgy, K-pop, stand-up, and prayer into a single hypnotic rite.
EXPERIMENTAL – A direct encounter with the leading edge of French experimental theater, fresh from Avignon and the Festival d’Automne.
BELIEVE IT – A witty, dissonant celebration of what people worship, repeat, and gather around now.
Performance Dates + Times
Performance Dates + Times
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Friday Nov 207:30 PMOpening Night
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Saturday Nov 217:30 PM
THE ARTISTs
THE ARTISTs
Joris Lacoste
Joris Lacoste is an author and director. Since the early 2000s, he has created many shows at the crossroads between poetry, performance, music, and dance. In 2007, he founded the collective Encyclopédie de la parole, within which he has created a series of plays that have toured the world. He has also translated four of Shakespeare’s plays and taken part in several exhibitions in museums and arts centres.
CREATIVE CREDITS
CREATIVE CREDITS
Conception, text, music, direction, choreography: Joris Lacoste
Scenography and Lighting: Florian Leduc
Choreographic Collaboration: Solène Wachter
Music and Sound collaboration: Léo Libanga
Costumes:Carles Urraca
Performance and Contribution to Writing: Daphné Biiga Nwanak, Camille Dagen, Flora Duverger, Jade Emmanuel, Thomas Gonzalez, Léo Libanga, Ghita Serraj, Tamar Shelef, Lucas Van Poucke
Sound:Florian Monchatre
Assistant Stage Direction and Dramaturgy: Léo Libanga
Vocal Coaching: Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias
General Stage Management:Marine Brosse, Seydou Grépinet
Production and Distribution: Hélène Moulin-Rouxel et Colin Pitrat (Les Indépendances)
Administration: Edwige Dousset
Delegated Production: Compagnie Échelle 1:1
Associated Production: La Muse en Circuit Centre national de création musicale
Co-production: Bonlieu Scène nationale (Annecy), MC93 Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, Théâtre Garonne Scène européenne (Toulouse), Les Célestins Théâtre de Lyon, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Festival d’Avignon, Centre Dramatique National Orléans / Centre-Val-de-Loire, Festival Musica Strasbourg
With the Support: Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Fonds de production Drac Île-de-France et pour la 79e édition du Festival d’Avignon : Spedidam.
With the artistic support du Jeune théâtre national et du dispositif d’insertion de l’Ecole du TNB
Artistic residency: Abbaye de Noirlac, La Muse en Circuit CNCM, MAC de Créteil, CROMOT (Paris), La Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Bonlieu scène nationale d’Annecy, MC93 (Bobigny), Théâtre Garonne – scène européenne (Toulouse)
La compagnie Échelle 1:1 is supported through a long-term agreement with the French Ministry of Culture – DRAC Île-de-France, and receives support from the Île-de-France Region.
Remerciements: Frédéric Baron, Alan Hammoudi, Pierre-Yves Macé, Christelle Pepin, Augustin Parsy, Assia Turquier-Zauberman, Ling Zhu
GALLERY
GALLERY
Photo by Raynaud de Lage
Photo by Raynaud de Lage
Photo by Raynaud de Lage
BEYOND THE STAGE
BEYOND THE STAGE
Study Guides
Joris Lacoste: Nexus de l’adoration
Prep School: Nexus de l’adoration
PRESS
PRESS
SUPPORT
SUPPORT
NYU Skirball’s programs are made possible in part with support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the Howard Gilman Foundation; Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels; Culture Ireland; The Shubert Foundation; Collins Building Services; General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA; Goethe Institut New York with support from the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany; Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; New England Foundation for the Arts; Harkness Foundation for Dance; and Marta Heflin Foundation; as well as our valued donors through memberships, commissioning, and Allies for Arts Access Fund support.
This project is made possible in part with support from Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation through the Theatre & New Forms program, and the Harkness Foundation for Dance.
