Echoing the Renée Levi’s Aimée show and Ingrid Luche’s Whileaway, La Villa du Parc is pleased to host an evening of performance art. With emphasis on danced movement, tableau vivant, and the resonances of the human voice reading aloud or singing, the invited artists will be performing in La Villa’s exhibition spaces and the surrounding park, and will even make use of the bandstand.

Anne Sylvie Henchoz and Lauriane Houbey will head a workshop that will take the form of a temporary community moving about in Renée Levi’s pictorial world. Taking off from collages of written and borrowed texts that explore in particular love and art, Diane Rivoire will construct a narrative in several sequences. Adélaïde Feriot will stage a polyphonic play embodied by three characters dressed in sky-colored painting-capes that reflect contrasting states of the atmosphere. Drawing on a corpus of letters lost and salvaged from destruction, Adrianna Wallis will give voice to fragments of life, stories that will accompany the audience until night has fallen.

Friday 9 July:
6:30 pm Adélaïde Feriot Breath
7 pm Diane Rivoire Wanderlove, une œuvre en cache beaucoup d’autres
7 pm Anne Sylvie Henchoz and Lauriane Houbey, Conversation piece
8 pm Adélaïde Feriot Breath
8:30 pm Adrianna Wallis Les Liseurs

Friday 9 and Saturday 10 July from 2 pm to 6:30 pm: workshop and performances by Anne Sylvie Henchoz and Lauriane Houbey – reservation required
Call for participants

Conversation piece is a performative space proposed by Anne Sylvie Henchoz & Lauriane Houbey. Open to all, this space will take shape during a group initiative that can be viewed by the exhibition audience. The two performance artists invite all who interested to join them in working together to develop, seek out, and write pieces in movement in La Villa du Parc’s exhibition space.

The piece will involve leaving the area of the exhibition space attributed to the artist Renée Levi’s own work to form a temporary community and help a collective performative presence emerge. This will entail coming up with ways to share the space and articulate hybrids to create – collectively – new possibilities.

Lauriane Houbey is a choreographer, performer, and sound artist. In her work, she explores in particular the emergence of a collective gesture articulated between the group and the individuals making it up.

Anne Sylvie Henchoz stages situations by inventing a vocabulary that poetic, physical and choreographic at one and the same time, to conjure up the concept of “relation.” She is currently developing the project of a choreography center open to all (CHO).

Participants – a maximum 8 people – agree to be on hand for the 2 days. There are no prerequisites (physical or particular expertise). This workshop will involve forms of being physically close to others. Face masks must be worn.

Hours:
Friday 9 July from 2 pm to 8 pm, with the evening in front of a live audience
Saturday 10 July from 1 pm to 6 pm

Venue:
La Villa du Parc, contemporary art center

If interested in taking part, please sign up here: communication@villaduparc.org
The number of participants is limited so the first to commit will be taken.
The deadline for signing up is 8 July
All persons are welcome.