Arkadi Zaides IL
Necropolis
Theater / dance
Necropolis is a striking show. A work at the crossroads of documentary and virtual reality, it brings together actors, directors and lighting designers around the Israeli choreographer Arkadi Zaides, and includes an enigmatic position: Search and localisation of graves. Forty-nine people have filled this role, surveying 600 cemeteries from the north to the south of Europe in order to give an identity and a history to those who have died while migrating. Sitting on stage in front of a screen next to dancer Emma Gioia, Zaides projects a map on which the mouse zooms in to open one or other of the graves of the 45,000 dead counted by United for Intercultural Action since 1993 – graves whose bodies, for the most part, have no name, no age and no history. Then he stands up and reconstructs the history of a fragmented body that begins its walk towards the necropolis of memory.
Both performances will be followed by a meeting between Arkadi Zaides and the audience, in the presence of a representative of the Forensic Unit of Central Tracing Agency in Geneva and a member of the association SOS Méditerranée.
Théâtre Pitoëff
Tickets
Full rate : CHF 30.- / Reduced rate : CHF 20.- / Special rate : CHF 15.- / Festival-goer rate : CHF 7.-
Mon 05 Sep 2022 21:00
Tue 06 Sep 2022 19:00
Length 60'
Show in English with French surtitles
16 yrs.
Concept and choreography
Arkadi Zaides
Dramaturgy, text and voice
Igor Dobricic
Performers
Arkadi Zaides, Emma Gioia
Research assistant
Emma Gioia
Sculpture
Moran Sanderovich
Avatar
Jean Hubert
Lighting
Jan Mergaert
Sound design
Aslı Kobaner
Research and location of the graves
Aktina Stathaki, Ans Van Gasse, Amber Maes, Arkadi Zaides, Benjamin Pohlig, Bianca Frasso, Carolina-Maria Van Thillo, Doreen Kutzke, Elvura Quesada, Emma Gioia, Frédéric Pouillaude, Gabriel Smeets, Giorgia Mirto, Gosia Juszczak, Igor Dobricic, Joris Van Imschoot, Julia Asperska, Juliane Beck, Katia Gandolfi, Maite Zabalza, Maria Sierra Carretero, Mercedes Roldan, Myriam Van Imschoot, Myrto Katsiki, Pepa Torres Perez, Sarah Leo, Simge Gücük, Sunniva Vikør Egenes, Yannick Bosc, Yari Stilo
Technical director
Etienne Exbrayat
Administration and production
Simge Gücük
Photos credits
Arnaud Caravielhe, Vincent Staub et Institut des croisements
Production
Institut des Croisements
Co-production
Montpellier Danse 40 Bis, Théâtre de la Ville à Paris, Charleroi Danse, CCN2 – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, Les Ballets C de la B (BE), Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer (DE), La Filature – Scène nationale de Mulhouse (FR)
Théâtre Pitoëff
Tickets
Full rate : CHF 30.- / Reduced rate : CHF 20.- / Special rate : CHF 15.- / Festival-goer rate : CHF 7.- / See rates details
Mon 05 Sep 2022 21:00
Tue 06 Sep 2022 19:00
