Garcimore est mort (2021) - Gaël Santisteva
Struggling with a chaotic scenic device in perpetual deceleration, playing with the codes of entertainment (a scenic installation consisting of an automated circular curtain and sounds), three (or four) performers make their way towards their own emancipation and celebrate the simplicity of the imperceptible glitter of existence. While passing through hand tricks, pop songs, a tap dance solo, physical prowess or dance, they share their thoughts on the power of beliefs and manipulation and try to deploy an ode to decay in dissonance to the complex, over-informed, ultra-fast, profuse, capitalist and demanding world in which we operate.
In my previous production - TALK SHOW (2017) -, I approached a naturalistic way of being on stage, a way of playing without playing, in any case without embodying more than the reality of the facts and emotions that flow from it. With Garcimore est mort, this performative state of mind close to the truth will be contrasted by the use of identifiable devices comparable to the codes of entertainment (applause, drum rolls, laughs...). Deeply interested in questioning these codes, I would like to use them for counter-employment, creating a performance that is deliberately off-kilter and far from the usual ploys of the spectacular. (Gaël Santisteva)
Garcimore est mort premièred on November 18th, 2021 at Le Manège, scène nationale-Reims (FR), in the frame of festival Born to be a live.
After TALK SHOW (2017) and Garcimore est mort (2021), Gaël Santisteva co-created Voie Voix Vois (with Antoine Leroy and Saaber Bachir, 2023). His next project - Piñata Cake - will premiere in March 2025 in Brussels.
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
18.01.2024 | Théâtre L'Aire Libre, Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande (FR)
19.01.2024 | Théâtre L'Aire Libre, Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande (FR)
PREVIOUS TOUR DATES
20.05.2021 | showing (pro), Les SUBS, Lyon (FR)
18.11.2021 | Born to be a live, Le Manège, Reims (FR) - PREMIERE
25.01.2022 | Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris (FR)
26.01.2022 | Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris (FR)
28.01.2022 | Théâtre Cinéma de Choisy-le-Roi (FR)
03.02.2022 | Les SUBS, Lyon (FR)
04.02.2022 | Les SUBS, Lyon (FR)
08.02.2022 | Malraux – Scène nationale Chambéry Savoie (FR)
09.02.2022 | Malraux – Scène nationale Chambéry Savoie (FR)
17.03.2022 | Festival Up! / Charleroi danse, La Raffinerie, Bruxelles (BE)
18.03.2022 | Festival Up! / Charleroi danse, La Raffinerie, Bruxelles (BE)
18.10.2022 | Atelier 210, Bruxelles (BE)
19.10.2022 | Atelier 210, Bruxelles (BE)
20.10.2022 | Atelier 210, Bruxelles (BE)
21.10.2022 | Atelier 210, Bruxelles (BE)
22.10.2022 | Atelier 210, Bruxelles (BE)
28.10.2022 | festival CIRCa, Auch (FR)
29.10.2022 | festival CIRCa, Auch (FR)
12.11.2022 | Théâtre national, Bruxelles (BE)
13.11.2022 | Théâtre national, Bruxelles (BE)
25.11.2022 | Charleroi danse, Charleroi (BE)
08.02.2023 | BIAC - Biennale Internationale des Arts du Cirque, Théâtre d’Arles, Arles (FR)
18.03.2023 | Le Delta, Namur (BE)
Garcimore est mort - A project by Gaël Santisteva (80', 2021)
Creation and performance: Ondine Cloez, Jani Nuutinen, Gaël Santisteva + 1 surprise guest, alternating: Sophia Rodriguez, Micha Goldberg, Rosie Sommers Artistic advices: Lara Barsacq Sound and musical creation: Lieven Dousselaere Light design : Vic Grevendonk Costumes design: Sofie Durnez Stage design: Jérôme Dupraz, Sofie Durnez, Gaël Santisteva Technical direction: Emma Laroche Lights: Valentin Boucq Administration & production: Myriam Chekhemani Communication & distribution: Quentin Legrand - Rue Branly
Production: Gilbert & Stock Coproduction: Le Manège - scène nationale-Reims, Malraux - scène nationale Chambéry Savoie, Le Théâtre d’Arles, Théâtre de Choisy-le-Roi, scène conventionnée d'intérêt national - Art et création pour la diversité linguistique, Les SUBS, CIRCa pôle National Cirque - Auch (FR), Charleroi danse, UP - Circus & Performing Arts (BE) Residencies: Charleroi danse, UP - Circus & Performing Arts, Centre Culturel Jacques Franck, Kunstenwerkplaats, Latitude 50, Arts Center Buda, Wolubilis - Pôle culturel de Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Maison de la création (BE), CIRCa pôle national des arts du cirque-Auch, Les SUBS, Théâtre Cinéma de Choisy-le-Roi, Département des Bouches-du-Rhône – Centre départemental de créations en résidence (FR) With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Sabam for Culture and SACD
photos © Stanislav Dobak
Playing with the codes of circus, Gaël Santisteva and his team take a lucid look at society and the world of entertainment. Hilarious ! […] Some shows can turn upside down everything you knew about writing, the dramatic stakes, the aesthetics, the requirement… Shows from which you come out hilarious, but totally disoriented. Garcimore est mort is one of those.
Anne Quentin, Théâtre(s), été 2022
At the edge of performance, dance and circus, Gaël Santisteva signs with Garcimore est mort a hybrid piece whose comicalism mixed with depth gently addresses important and unfathomable questions. [...] Wigs and sequins, skates and slippers, automated curtains and tap dancing, songs and prowess, hypnosis and confidences: Garcimore est mort turns three little magic tricks into the material of a derisory that lasts. A crunchy treat whose flavor you won't soon forget.
Marie Baudet, La Libre Belgique, 19.03.2022
Pursuing his enterprise of deconstruction of the spectacular, [Gaël Santisteva] puts himself on stage with three performers in a piece which, in its very dramaturgy, tends towards sobriety, slowing down. Collective writing on the set, improvisations on the wire, pop and absurd aesthetics are the building blocks of a "meta-performance" that plays with itself. Gaël Santisteva signs here a eulogy of the useless, of doubt as a way and of fun as a remedy.
Interview with Mélanie Jouen, Ma Culture, 07.03.2022