The Grand-Théâtre de Bordeaux -
Julien Fernandez
While hoping for a bright future, around sixty artists and theater students performed, this Saturday morning, at dawn in a street in Besançon, a show symbolizing "the death of the theater" during the coronavirus epidemic. , noted a photographer.
About sixty artists dressed in black began, at 6 a.m., when the curfew was lifted, a slow stroll carrying, like a coffin, a red theater chair, followed by a goblet of fire, in front of rare spectators. .
"A sort of funeral for the theater as we have known it"
"The time was chosen to recall the current constraints, and the slowness (of the wandering) to evoke the slowness of the renewal that does not come", explained Stéphanie Ruffier, theater teacher who participated in the performance.
"It's a kind of funeral for the theater as we have known it, which is not necessarily negative, it is also a desire to move on to something else," continued Stéphanie Ruffier, emphasizing "the feeling of emptiness ”that artists currently feel.
This “poetic act”, based on an extract from Arthur Rimbaud's poem “Adieu”, lasted less than an hour, under the watchful eye of the police.
In the wake of the march, artists traced on the ground a phrase derived from a line by Rimbaud "Et à l'Aurore, nous .." will dance, sing, play, etc.
This performance was registered as an “act II”, after a performance carried out in May at the end of the first confinement, by 200 artists who had produced a surprise show in Besançon to “wake up the living”.
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