15 > 19.06.26
Théâtre national Bordeaux Aquitaine
With unwavering consistency, the art of Zerep seeks to explore, question, and verify what theater, stage spaces, and performance can still mean by creating plays for the stage, performances, installations, and stage objects in museums. Zerep pieces reveal a versatile character that is more or less orthodox, bordering on rule-breaking. Zerep is a state of mind that delves into an artistic world where popular brothels and avant-garde refinements are pitted against one another to better experience their mysteries and mystifications. It is an artistic world strangely rooted in reality, where commentary never replaces experience or humanity. The Zerep company is a laboratory for theatricalexperimentation.
Perhaps the essential question for the performer is: “What form should I give to who I am?” How can I be as close as possible to my psychological, artistic, and emotional intimacy, while maintaining the necessary distance to create a working tool: myself. The notion of the masked self-portrait, whose scope is not limited to sarcastic or painful caricature, but rather to the fictional and intimate power of a certain personal poetry to be experienced, will be explored during this workshop. This workshop will focus on emblematic concepts of Sophie Perez’s work with Zerep: improvisation, the figure, resistance, the idea of personal baggage as a sport, distance, swing, reference, parody, experimental boulevard theater, emptiness, accumulation, monsters, disasters – not to mention wigs, dentures, entrances and exits, historical figures, stunts, masks, falls, random costumes, fake beards, and dismantling... But above all: chance and the mystery of form. Everything that characterizes, both in a noble and pathetic way, the simple fact of being there, on stage.