Les Héritier·x is a trio performed by dancers Évo Mine Lambillon and Pierre Piton, and Stélios Lazarou, electronic musician, performer and expert in Renaissance music. The performance observes Orchésographie, the first manual of dance and choreography, written by Toinot Arbeau (1588). It presents the most complete corpus of dance practices in the 16th century. In this manual, Toinot Arbeau, a Jesuit priest, mathematician and dancing master, teaches his disciple, a young lawyer, the art of dance. At the critical point where dance finds its new destiny as choreography is the joint work of a lawyer and a priest. This is a powerful founding duo for considering choreography’s historical relationship with law and authority.
From this historical document, the performance unfolds between documentary restitution and musical and choreographic rewriting, while observing the resonance of such a work in our contemporaneity.
Concept, choreography Marion Zurbach
Performance, artistic collaboration Évo Mine Lambillon, Pierre Piton
Performance, composition Stélios Lazarou
Dramaturgy Arthur Eskenazi
Coaching dance and singing, musical arrangement Madeleine Saur
Drawings Maria Demandt
Texts Toinot Arbeau, Clément Marot
Costumes Silvia Romanelli
Outside eye costumes Myriam Casanova
Lights Olivier Famin
Production Maxine Devaud / oh la la - performing arts production (CH) & Prune Allain-Bonsergent (FR)
Administration CH Angie Menillo / oh la la - performing arts production
Administration FR Raphaël Soleilhavoup
Photo Robin Plus, Anouk Maupu
Coproduction Dampfzentrale Bern (CH)
Partners Le Grütli, Halle Nord, Théâtre Sévelin 36 (CH),
Artagon, KLAP Maison pour la danse, Montevideo Marseille, Ménagerie de verre, Théâtre Éphémère, Festival Parallèle (FR)
Supports Kultur Stadt Bern, SWISSLOS/Kultur Kanton Bern, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Burgergemeinde Bern, Fonds culturel de la Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), Migros-Kulturprozent, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS, Gesellschaft zu Ober-Gerwern, Bürgi-Willert-Stiftung