La Messe de l’Âne

Originally trained as a biologist, Olivier de Sagazan turned to painting and sculpting with the ever-present idea of questioning organic life. From his passion to give life to matter came the idea for him to cover his own body with clay in order to observe the resulting “object”. This experiment gave rise to the creation of a solo: “Transfiguration” in which we see a man gradually disfiguring himself with clay into a kind of monster. This half- man, half-beast is searching beneath his masks who he is. We find a similar process of transformation applied to the 6 dancers in his creation “La Messe De L’Âne”. Demonstrators, priests, politicians, scientists, prisoners, patients; are all, with the help of clay, undergoing transformations that are emerging from the position they occupy in society. Each one of them holds a conflict between two entities: a puppet and a puppeteer. This situation produces a need for folly and the reappraisal of so-called normality. DIRECTOR : Olivier de Sagazan ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR: Anas Sareen CREATED WITH AND PERFORMED BY : Olivier de Sagazan, Alexandre Fandard, Leila Ka, Shirley Niclais, Stephanie Sant, Ele Madell LIGHT DESIGN: Pacome Boisselier DRAMATURGY: Olivier de Sagazan et Anas Sareen ARTISTIC ASSISTANT: Gaelle Le Rouge and Cécile Holtz PRODUCTION: IPSUL COPRODUCTION: Ville de Saint Nazaire, La Région des pays de Loire, Le Théâtre du Mac Orlan Brest , Le PALC Châlons-en-Champagne, La Scène Nationale de Saint NazaireInterprètes : Alexandre Fandard, Leila Ka, Shirley Niclais, Stephanie Sant, Ele Madell DURATION : 60 mn Les 11-12-13 juin 2021, au Brigittines à Bruxelles 27/07/2021 Biennale de Venise 20 and 21/09/2021 Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes , Charleville-Mézières France