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Reface is the first creation by Les Idoles, a physical and musical investigation into the idea of transformation, deformation and alteration of materials. Everything is a transition: our bodies, memory, the social environment, fora, relationships, political powers... Movement permeates everything, preventing the creation of clear and definitive forms. We work on this instability onvan intimate scale, because faces and emotions are troubled and unstable.

Alongside Reface, we want to develop Series. Like extensions of the piece, these series offer other angles from which to approach the themes of Reface, which have never ceased to fascinate us. Through new disciplines or pedagogy, we are once again looking at the question of self-representation, at the imperceptible but ceaseless metamorphoses of our bodies and faces. Sprawling, inexhaustible questions.

Serie #3 explores the themes of transformation and deformation from a new perspective. Currently in the creative process, we’re looking for a new form of writing that will reveal in greater depth the artifacts and multiple layers of the metamorphosis process: from the beginning, with the application of make-up in front of the mirror, to the total transformation of a group.

Public Program

6 December, 19h30
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Credits

Concept
Les Idoles

Performers
Tom Grand Mourcel, Joachim Maudet, Lisa Martinez, Alaïs Marzouvanlian, Chloé Zamboni, Lise Messina et Chandra Grangean

Musical Coordination
Martin Maltray-Ravit

Costumes
Lucie Grand Mourcel

© Tom Grand Mourcel

Our approach: searching, delving, stealing references, slipping into someone else’s skin, reincarnating, (de)mystifying... We’re a tribute collective, criss-crossed by a thousand cinematic, photographic and musical references. Thank you Granny Gisou for your topless shot on the beach in Saint-Tropez, thank you Beyoncé for your Countdown clip, largely plagiarized from Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s Rosas danst Rosas and thank you Buster Keaton for your wiggle in The play house. This work space, which we want to be singular and offbeat, allows us to question the images that surround us, from the most popular to the most elitist, from the most iconic to the most trivial. Which figures do we worship? Which are the ones we forget, or the ones that persist over time? Based on physical and musical research, we create hybrid projects and performances that are often offbeat and/or anachronistic. We like to play with codes, change viewpoints and divert images that are too fxed. The question of the gaze and the relationship with the audience runs through our work, forcing us to reinvent ourselves and our relationship with space.

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