On a sparse stage baking under acid yellow light, a woman introduces us to snatches of the Australian outback. She is joined by an Austrian man in a formal tail-coat, pacing circles with fragments of Viennese waltz. By mining their cultural backgrounds and digging around in the idea of ‘elsewhere’ they create AU. Weaving together live music and movements drawn from the whole of their experience as dancers, AU becomes a hybrid place composed of lost ideas and vagabond identities.
Conception, choreography and interpretation: Christian UBL & Kylie Walters
Music - composer & live performance: Seb Martel (Guitare et Cithare)
Artistic collaboration - botanist / landscape architect: Gilles Clément
Artistic collaboration - sound manager: Fabienne Gras
Artistic advice: Ingrid Florin
Lighting design: Jean Bastien Nehr
Lighting manager: Bertrand Blayo
Costume design: Aline Courvoisier
Production: CUBe association (FR)
Coproduction: KLAP - Maison pour la Danse, Marseille (FR) - Ballet National de Marseille (FR) - Pôle Arts de la scène/ La Friche, Marseille (FR) - CDC Le Pacifique, Grenoble - prix coproduction (Re)connaissance 2014
Support for residencies (FR): Trois C-L Luxembourg (L) - CDC Le Pacifique, Grenoble (FR) - Théâtre de l’Olivier, Istres (FR) - Théâtre Paul Eluard, Choisy-le-Roi (FR), KLAP-Maison pour la Danse, Marseille - résidence de finalisation 2015 (FR)
Support (FR): Ambassade d’Autriche, Luxembourg - DRAC aide à la compagnie Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Conseil départemental des Bouches-du-Rhône - Conseil régional PACA (CAC Danse) - Forum culturel autrichien (Paris) - Ville de Marseille – Le Merlan, scène nationale (studio loan) – Théâtre National de Chaillot (costume loan)
Cie Ornithorynque (CH)
Coproduction: Théâtre du Grütli - Geneva (CH)
Support: Australian Embassy, Belgium/Luxembourg - Pro-Helvetia, Fondation Suisse Pour la Culture, La Loterie Romande
