Lara Barsacq

Between archives, fiction, documentary, autobiography and ritual, Lara Barsacq interweaves the tracks like no one else, and brings back into the light and into dialogue with our times some of history's forgotten women. A canonised hymn writer of the Byzantine Empire, Kassia of Constantinople, was one of the first female composers of the Middle Ages whose scores have been preserved. Her work inspires the choreographer to make a cultural and temporal journey, a poetic attempt at exchanges with the beyond. Somewhere between figures and troubadours, eight dancers and/or singers explore the duality between the divine and the demonic, the paths of necromancy and divination, the confluence of East and West, and the sources of polyphonic art. Kassia Undead is a moving landscape for a journey through time, from the distant past to the near future.

creation and performance: Marta Capaccioli, Tarek Halaby, Cate Hortl, Emma Laroche-Brassié, Els Mondelaers, Aymara Parola, Agnes Potié, Klara Verkin / original music: Cate Hortl / music: Kassia de Constantinople, Salim Bali / light design: Estelle Gautier / artistic advice: Gaël Santisteva / voice coaching: Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias / art historian: Brunella Danna Allegrini / set design: Ateliers Indigo - Alexandra Siebert, Alice Forsberg, Clara Vandebotermet, Jean Everarts, Magali Cote, Patricia Cala (accompanied by Lily Sato, Adrien Vermont, Maya de Mondragon, Corinne Chotycki) / screenprinting: Frédéric Jamagne / set design intern: Teo Verougstraete / costume design: Lara Barsacq / costume production: Catherine Somers and the workshop of Théâtre de Liège / technical direction: Emma Laroche-Brassié / sound design: Benoit Pelé, Fred Miclet / administration & production: Myriam Chekhemani, Mélanie Jourdan (La choueƩe diffusion) / communication & distribution: Quentin Legrand (Rue Branly) / production: Gilbert & Stock / coproduction: Théâtre de Liège, Charleroi danse - Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Les Brigiƫnes, December Dance (Concertgebouw Brugge & CC Brugge), DC&J Création (BE), Cité musicale-Metz, La Briqueterie CDCN (FR) / residencies: Charleroi danse, Théâtre de Liège, Grand Studio (BE), La Briqueterie CDCN (FR), CSC - Centro per la scena contemporanea (IT) / with the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Grand Studio, the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, and Inver Tax Shelter / Lara Barsacq is an artist in residence at Théâtre de Liège (2024-2028) and at Cité musicale-Metz (2024-2026)

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