Festival Parallèle 13 | La Caresse du Coma ft. YOLO

“I have been staying in a four-star spa hotel in remote Croatia for forty days now, at a gathering of people who are in search of Happiness, convinced that they live in a world that is INFINITELY LIVING. Within the group, they each have a transitional status: as I am new, I am automatically DOG, “a love machine”, and my number is 23. At the beginning, DOG (23) did not know anyone, and soon COACH, PIRATE and ANGEL 92Kcal shared their advice, beliefs and practices with them. Today, DOG (23) meets LIQUID VIRGIN, a spectral figure of the movement. Her presence is manifested by a breath called YOLO, a kind of primordial atmosphere, a contact like a “big passing hit” that DOG (23) will have no choice but to inhale and spit out.”

La Caresse du Coma is a meta-project composed of cameos. It’s not so much about a project that works in stages so much as chapters, like in a novel, or the ALIEN saga, or when Doc Gyneco asks Bernard Tapie, Renaud, or Johnny Hallyday if they’ll sing with him.
For the time being, Anne Lise Le Gac presents all of them separately, because a cameo can last between fifty minutes and an hour. Each is an encounter between CHIEN (23) and some other proverbial mutt passing through the Croatian spa.

Conception et performance: Anne Lise Le Gac
Performance and music: Loto Retina
Light: Anat Bosak
Sound: Benjamin Delvalle
Layout of the land: Anne Lise Le Gac et Anat Bosak
Costume design: Elie Ortis
Photo crédits: Anne Lise Le Gac, Margaux Vendassi

Production: OKAY CONFIANCE
Production and diffusion: Parallèle, Pratiques artistiques émergentes internationales
Coproductions: Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil, Arsenic—Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne, Veem House for Performance, BUDA (Kortrijk) et BIT Teatergarasjen dans le cadre de apap—FEMINIST FUTURES, un projet de coopération du programme Europe Créative de l’Union Européenne, Antistatic Festival / Brain Store Project Foundation, Workshop Fundation dans le cadre du projet européen Life Long Burning
Supports: Département des Bouches-du-Rhône, Ville de Marseille, DRAC PACA dans le cadre du Plan de relance pour la culture en Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Friche la Belle de Mai, Centrale Fies / art work space, la Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine, GMEM — Centre national de création musicale

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Anne Lise Le Gac lives in Bègles. She studied at the Fine Arts School in Strasbourg from 2003 to 2008, focusing on performance art. She completed a performance master programme ESSAIS at CNDC Angers in 2013. In 2014, she worked with choreographer Claudia Triozzi. Anne Lise Le Gac has created a solo piece La Caresse du Coma and a collaborative performance project, GRAND MAL, with Élie Ortis, which they presented at the Les Urbaines festival (Lausanne), at Festival Parallèle (Marseille). Since 2015, she has been co-organising the performance festival OKAY CONFIANCE that was recently held at La Ferme du Buisson (Paris). In May 2019, she presents a new performance project DUCTUS MIDI in collaboration with the artist and musician Arthur Chambry at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels.
She is currently working on a new creation La Caresse du Coma ft. YOLO in collaboration with the musician Loto Retina.

Loto Retina # gnom n bass is a performer composing a semi-danceable chaos with speed and fantasy, populated by beaten, scraped, caressed percussions and semi-humanoid onomatopoeia. The samples jostle and jump around like in a cartoon.

You can consult the website of Anne Lise Le Gac.