In the instant before a firework explodes, eleven performers cobble together a final show as if they were lighting a fuse. They are stubborn, fragile and elated, as if caught in a storm of images, dances and abandoned objects.
Pyromaniac dancer-choreographer Némo Flouret sets the stage ablaze with flaying trumpets, cracked rhythms, bursts of light and clouds of smoke orchestrated by master fireworker Joseph Couturier. The set design, conceived with Philippe Quesne, erects fragments of bleachers, tarpaulins and metal carcasses that metamorphose with the wind. Costumes by Satoshi Kondo dress the bodies in chromatic surges, crackling and then scattering like textile sparks. In the fire of this suspended space-time, the performers yield nothing to the cadence: looped dances, aborted fanfares, choruses of voices as if driven by an end-of-the-world energy, tirelessly refusing to sink. Last Fires captures the very ambivalence of a celestial choreographic spray, alternating between expectation, hope, frustration, brilliance and silence. Between collective vertigo and lucid dreaming, the show asks: what if each performance were the last?
The set design, conceived with Philippe Quesne, erects fragments of bleachers, tarpaulins and metal carcasses that metamorphose with the wind. Costumes by Satoshi Kondo dress the bodies in chromatic surges, crackling and then dispersing like textile sparks. Last Fires captures the very ambivalence of a celestial choreographic spray, alternating between expectation, hope, frustration, brilliance and silence.
Between collective vertigo and lucid dreaming, the show asks: what if each performance were the last?
The performance on the 26th is followed by a DJ set by KUKII.
KUKII’s music rises up like a rallying cry, a call to break boundaries, subvert perceptions, and survey new territories: an invitation to deep introspection, to self-exploration as a path to liberation. Imagine KUKII as the illegitimate child of an explosive fusion: MIA, Sherine and Siouxsie Sioux together in the back of a purple Chrysler LeBaron, whizzing through Cairo with Mahraganat blaring at full volume, while Pharrell catches the scene at a red light.
Artist biography
Born in Orléans in 1995, Némo Flouret develops open projects that generally take place in hybrid spaces outside theaters. He has created Ce que l’on a trouvé dans la Solitude (2019), a duet set in a tunnel, and 900 Something Days Spent in the XXth Century (2021), a performance designed for post-industrial urban spaces. Since 2019, he has been collaborating with choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, co-creating in 2021 a solo/duo as part of the “Dark Red Project” at the Fondation Beyeler (Basel). Together, they develop several choreographic projects designed to take place in different contexts: museums, natural spaces, public places. In 2023, he collaborated with Issey Miyake and the contemporary music ensemble Ictus, creating a performance for Issey Miyake’s spring/summer collection: Grasping the formless. In June 2024, he created a site-specific performance,
Dance Parc: a playground project , for the roofs of Maison Bernard, an unusual architectural work by habitologist Antti Lovag in Théoule-sur-Mer. Némo Flouret also trained as a performer at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (2016), and at P.A.R.T.S. (2016-2019).
Distribution
With : Calvin Carrier / Bryana Fritz, Némo Flouret, Rafa Galdino, Tessa Hall, Philomène Jander, Per-Anders Kraudy Solli, Jean Lemersre, Rubén Orio, Susana Santos Silva, Sophie Sénécaut, Wan-Lun Yu / Eva Galmel
Design: Némo Flouret
Scenography: Philippe Quesne
Costumes: Satoshi Kondo for ISSEY MIYAKE
Musical collaboration: Calvin Carrier, Rubén Orio, Per-Anders Kraudy Solli, Susana Santos Silva
Pyrotechnics: Joseph Couturier
Dramaturgy collaboration: Emma Lewis-Jones
Research collaboration: Tessa Hall
Artistic advice: Bryana Fritz, Camille Legrand, Margaux Roy, Solène Wachter
Technical director: Fabrice Le Fur
Stage management and pyrotechnics coordination: Rémy EbrasSound manager: Mikaël Plunian
Lighting manager: Nicolas Marc
Construction reinforcement: Max Potiron
Production and development: Margaux Roy
Production and logistics: Claire Heyl
Administration: Florence PéaronProduction
Production: Supergroup
Coproduction: Comédie de Genève, Charleroi danse Centre chorégraphique Wallonie-Bruxelles, Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse), Ménagerie de verre (Paris), Tanz im August (Berlin), IRA Institute (Soverato), La Halle aux Grains Scène nationale de Blois, Festival d’AvignonWith the support of : Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, The 2024 Baroness Nina von Maltzahn Fellowship for the Performing Arts at The Watermill Center, Fondazione Politeama – Città di Catanzaro, Région Centre-Val-de-Loire, Ville d’Orléans, DRAC Centre-Val de Loire
Set construction: Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève
Residencies: Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Les Chaudronneries (Montreuil), The Watermill Center (New York), Take me Somewhere (Glasgow), Politeama Teatro (Catanzaro), Anfiteatro di Soverato, Comune di Badolato, Comédie de GenèveThanks
Jean-Luc Plouvier, Dick Van Der Harst, César Vayssié, Séverine Chavrier, Pauline Pierron, Yves Fröhle, Frederico Ramos Lopes, Valérie Oberson, Benjamin Vicq and all the staff of the Comédie de Genève and the Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève, Pietro Monteverdi, Settimio Pisano, Guerino Nistico, Damien Chevron, Hugh Hsu, Gilles Flouret, Annick Flouret, Valérie Lenders – gallery Melissa Ansel, Valentine Jejcic, Jean-Baptiste Portier, Gaspard Schmitt, Lino Jaricot-Garcia, Léa Warin-D’Houdetot
In memory of Pierre-Yves Flouret (1937-2025)
In the instant before a firework explodes, eleven performers cobble together a final show as if they were lighting a fuse. They are stubborn, fragile and elated, as if caught in a storm of images, dances and abandoned objects.
Pyromaniac dancer-choreographer Némo Flouret sets the stage ablaze with flaying trumpets, cracked rhythms, bursts of light and clouds of smoke orchestrated by master fireworker Joseph Couturier. The set design, conceived with Philippe Quesne, erects fragments of bleachers, tarpaulins and metal carcasses that metamorphose with the wind. Costumes by Satoshi Kondo dress the bodies in chromatic surges, crackling and then scattering like textile sparks. In the fire of this suspended space-time, the performers yield nothing to the cadence: looped dances, aborted fanfares, choruses of voices as if driven by an end-of-the-world energy, tirelessly refusing to sink. Last Fires captures the very ambivalence of a celestial choreographic spray, alternating between expectation, hope, frustration, brilliance and silence. Between collective vertigo and lucid dreaming, the show asks: what if each performance were the last?
The set design, conceived with Philippe Quesne, erects fragments of bleachers, tarpaulins and metal carcasses that metamorphose with the wind. Costumes by Satoshi Kondo dress the bodies in chromatic surges, crackling and then dispersing like textile sparks. Last Fires captures the very ambivalence of a celestial choreographic spray, alternating between expectation, hope, frustration, brilliance and silence.
Between collective vertigo and lucid dreaming, the show asks: what if each performance were the last?
The performance on the 26th is followed by a DJ set by KUKII.
KUKII’s music rises up like a rallying cry, a call to break boundaries, subvert perceptions, and survey new territories: an invitation to deep introspection, to self-exploration as a path to liberation. Imagine KUKII as the illegitimate child of an explosive fusion: MIA, Sherine and Siouxsie Sioux together in the back of a purple Chrysler LeBaron, whizzing through Cairo with Mahraganat blaring at full volume, while Pharrell catches the scene at a red light.
Artist biography
Born in Orléans in 1995, Némo Flouret develops open projects that generally take place in hybrid spaces outside theaters. He has created Ce que l’on a trouvé dans la Solitude (2019), a duet set in a tunnel, and 900 Something Days Spent in the XXth Century (2021), a performance designed for post-industrial urban spaces. Since 2019, he has been collaborating with choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, co-creating in 2021 a solo/duo as part of the “Dark Red Project” at the Fondation Beyeler (Basel). Together, they develop several choreographic projects designed to take place in different contexts: museums, natural spaces, public places. In 2023, he collaborated with Issey Miyake and the contemporary music ensemble Ictus, creating a performance for Issey Miyake’s spring/summer collection: Grasping the formless. In June 2024, he created a site-specific performance,
Dance Parc: a playground project , for the roofs of Maison Bernard, an unusual architectural work by habitologist Antti Lovag in Théoule-sur-Mer. Némo Flouret also trained as a performer at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (2016), and at P.A.R.T.S. (2016-2019).
Distribution
With : Calvin Carrier / Bryana Fritz, Némo Flouret, Rafa Galdino, Tessa Hall, Philomène Jander, Per-Anders Kraudy Solli, Jean Lemersre, Rubén Orio, Susana Santos Silva, Sophie Sénécaut, Wan-Lun Yu / Eva Galmel
Design: Némo Flouret
Scenography: Philippe Quesne
Costumes: Satoshi Kondo for ISSEY MIYAKE
Musical collaboration: Calvin Carrier, Rubén Orio, Per-Anders Kraudy Solli, Susana Santos Silva
Pyrotechnics: Joseph Couturier
Dramaturgy collaboration: Emma Lewis-Jones
Research collaboration: Tessa Hall
Artistic advice: Bryana Fritz, Camille Legrand, Margaux Roy, Solène Wachter
Technical director: Fabrice Le Fur
Stage management and pyrotechnics coordination: Rémy EbrasSound manager: Mikaël Plunian
Lighting manager: Nicolas Marc
Construction reinforcement: Max Potiron
Production and development: Margaux Roy
Production and logistics: Claire Heyl
Administration: Florence PéaronProduction
Production: Supergroup
Coproduction: Comédie de Genève, Charleroi danse Centre chorégraphique Wallonie-Bruxelles, Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse), Ménagerie de verre (Paris), Tanz im August (Berlin), IRA Institute (Soverato), La Halle aux Grains Scène nationale de Blois, Festival d’AvignonWith the support of : Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, The 2024 Baroness Nina von Maltzahn Fellowship for the Performing Arts at The Watermill Center, Fondazione Politeama – Città di Catanzaro, Région Centre-Val-de-Loire, Ville d’Orléans, DRAC Centre-Val de Loire
Set construction: Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève
Residencies: Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Les Chaudronneries (Montreuil), The Watermill Center (New York), Take me Somewhere (Glasgow), Politeama Teatro (Catanzaro), Anfiteatro di Soverato, Comune di Badolato, Comédie de GenèveThanks
Jean-Luc Plouvier, Dick Van Der Harst, César Vayssié, Séverine Chavrier, Pauline Pierron, Yves Fröhle, Frederico Ramos Lopes, Valérie Oberson, Benjamin Vicq and all the staff of the Comédie de Genève and the Ateliers de la Comédie de Genève, Pietro Monteverdi, Settimio Pisano, Guerino Nistico, Damien Chevron, Hugh Hsu, Gilles Flouret, Annick Flouret, Valérie Lenders – gallery Melissa Ansel, Valentine Jejcic, Jean-Baptiste Portier, Gaspard Schmitt, Lino Jaricot-Garcia, Léa Warin-D’Houdetot
In memory of Pierre-Yves Flouret (1937-2025)
Actoral 2025 at Mucem
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Meeting with Laure Prouvost by Céline Kopp
Actoral, around Laure Prouvost
Curator and art historian Céline Kopp talks to Laure Prouvost about the three exhibitions she is presenting in Marseilles in 2025. The meeting will be followed by a signing session for the exhibition catalog Au fort les âmes sont by Laure Prouvost.On Saturday, Sep 27, 2025
at 18h
J4 / Auditorium
Michele Matyn
Actoral, Around Laure Prouvost
Michèle Matyn is interested in how myths, folklore and beliefs are formed through our relationship with nature. Her work often takes the form of an invitation to travel to remote, symbolic spaces, likely to reinforce faith in the supernatural. For this performance, the artist is inspired by the historical myth of the “Jenny Haniver”: according to 16th-century sailors in Belgian ports, these dried stingray carcasses possessed numerous magical powers. Here embodied, Michele...On Friday, Sep 26, 2025
at 20h30
J4 / Flat roof
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Cycle of short film screenings
Actoral - Around Laure Prouvost
Francis Alÿs The Silence of Ani Armenia, Turkey I 2015 13 minutes Filmed in an ancient Armenian town on the Turkish border, The Silence of Ani (2015) is set in the ruins of a city whose quietude is broken only by birdsong. In a landscape as strange as it is breathtaking, a group of children play the duduk (a traditional double-reed wooden flute) as a game of hide-and-seek unfolds. Their repeated calls become a ballad for the future – or an elegy for the past. Jonathas de Andrade O Peixe...
Elouan Le Bars PEAK PERFORMANCE France, 2024 28 minutes Drawing its narrative from corporate games, PEAK PERFORMANCE (2024) is a documentary fairy tale set in a space in perpetual motion, evoking both an exhibition space and a meeting room. The film features seven of the director’s friends playing versions of themselves as they participate in team-building activities and share stories from their professional lives, between authenticity and performance. Caroline Mesquita Noctambules United...
Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor Somniloquies France I 2016 1h15 Somniloquies is a descent into the dream world of our unconscious. A city of dwarfs for rent, an alien invasion, an exorcism séance, a far-fetched military maneuver, a wild, burlesque and fetishistic spectacle, a surgical procedure gone horribly wrong, an impromptu orgy, cold-blooded murder, mass drowning, a sex contest, sudden depressurization causing nail polish to fly off… these were the subjects of nocturnal...
Ben Russell River Rites United States, Surinam I 2011 11 minutes Filmed in sequence on a sacred river in Upper Suriname, the daily secrets of a Saramacan animist are revealed as time itself unravels. A swim, a fisherman pulls his net out of the water, a young girl washes clothes on a stone. This is the duration of a single take, a reel of Super 16 film. Carolee Schneemann Meat Joy United States I 1964 6 minutes Meat Joy is a performance conceived by Carolee Schneemann and presented for the...On Friday, Sep 26, 2025
at 17h
J4 / Auditorium
Alberto Cortés, El ardor and One night at the golden bar
Actoral, Around Laure Prouvost
Reading in Spanish with French dubbing Alberto Cortés is a Spanish director, playwright and interpreter of his own drifts. His work develops through dance, performance and theater, and regularly takes Spanish folklore – particularly flamenco – and queer feelings as its subject. In 2022, he published Los montes tuyos, a collection of texts including El Ardor and One night at the golden bar. Melancholic delirium, vulnerable loves, angelic figures and eternal desires: this body of work...On Friday, Sep 26, 2025
at 19h30
J4 / Auditorium
Esther Teillard, Samy Langeraert,
Actoral, around Laure Prouvost
CARNES by Esther Teillard, Éditions Pauvert, January 2025 Accepted at the Beaux-Arts in Cergy, the narrator of CARNES leaves her native Marseille for northeastern Paris. A new world holds out its arms to her, more sororal, less volcanic, where debates on inclusivity have replaced misogynist whistles. But where does violence nestle when it fears to speak its name? Cagoles, Chinese prostitutes, poisonous students and emotional muralists: CARNES draws up a searing inventory of bourgeois feminist...On Saturday, Sep 27, 2025
at 20h
J4 / Auditorium
