https://cecilebally.com cécile bally Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:39:14 +0000 https://cecilebally.com en https://cecilebally.com/GLITCHLESS Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:25:37 +0000 cécile bally https://cecilebally.com/GLITCHLESS <img width="3456" height="1944" width_o="3456" height_o="1944" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7dbf13e935ff4aa0b134fb2fa4c03dc936ebd5d29e7e21f46cbb1e68eae074a5/IMG_9959.JPG" data-mid="246644814" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7dbf13e935ff4aa0b134fb2fa4c03dc936ebd5d29e7e21f46cbb1e68eae074a5/IMG_9959.JPG" /> Glitchless A Work In Progress for Life Is Strange, Choose Your Own Impressions from our residency at C-TAKT, Platform for Transdisciplinary Talent, Belgium First week of research with the team mixing performance, video game and video mapping June 2025 Video <img width="2528" height="1436" width_o="2528" height_o="1436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4bba370e2ae87f9b178be83c5fb6d98775bae19c8691f6507382bdf416af1ca5/IMG_9921_2.JPG" data-mid="246644850" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4bba370e2ae87f9b178be83c5fb6d98775bae19c8691f6507382bdf416af1ca5/IMG_9921_2.JPG" /><img width="3456" height="1944" width_o="3456" height_o="1944" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3619ae4cb35a9a6c3b67e0735e7faf8d6dbd9e90507ecc5282ceaf3b5e2f552d/IMG_0015.JPG" data-mid="234523648" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3619ae4cb35a9a6c3b67e0735e7faf8d6dbd9e90507ecc5282ceaf3b5e2f552d/IMG_0015.JPG" /> <img width="1599" height="865" width_o="1599" height_o="865" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55f5f23f3b2a7090f579c205e0bc85ae337278d1b7f31dfe376c02b74a1a3299/asaf-jump.png" data-mid="234523640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55f5f23f3b2a7090f579c205e0bc85ae337278d1b7f31dfe376c02b74a1a3299/asaf-jump.png" /> <img width="3456" height="1944" width_o="3456" height_o="1944" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b462fb4b120b1680419c35e75ca59d675ff6de3b06d33bc44397ddc4a1872300/IMG_0087.JPG" data-mid="234461617" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b462fb4b120b1680419c35e75ca59d675ff6de3b06d33bc44397ddc4a1872300/IMG_0087.JPG" /> <img width="1507" height="857" width_o="1507" height_o="857" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7e6b5f827b3e31e979caf0291615e5a12022b6e8590ccd584d1cfedd65e8baf/sunacup.png" data-mid="234523642" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7e6b5f827b3e31e979caf0291615e5a12022b6e8590ccd584d1cfedd65e8baf/sunacup.png" /> <img width="3456" height="1944" width_o="3456" height_o="1944" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cf4c0e53417ad89eb79d23133a19b45f87e792e5ac34dd84a93f637b1f050e2/IMG_0157.JPG" data-mid="234461618" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4cf4c0e53417ad89eb79d23133a19b45f87e792e5ac34dd84a93f637b1f050e2/IMG_0157.JPG" /> Credits Concept, Artistic Direction, Scenography : Cécile BallyPerformance : Asaf Aharonson, Sunayana ShettyLight Design &amp; Videomapping : Leo AlonsoCreative Producer : Darcey Bennett In co-production with C-Takt Video Games : Life Is Strange &amp; Choose Your Own Character The 4 levels of the video game "Choose Your Own Character" have been developed by Cécile Bally and Lisa Kaschubat based on characters and ideas from a group of Teenage Girls from Café Pink, Berlin : Elorri, Masooma, Eliya, Ange Leslie and Iva. https://cecilebally.com/CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN-CHARACTER Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:39:14 +0000 cécile bally https://cecilebally.com/CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN-CHARACTER Choose Your Own Character &nbsp; Workshop und Performance&nbsp; In collaboration with Café Pink and FELD Theater. Artistic Direction : Cécile Bally Video Game Programming : Lisa Kaschubat Video Mapping : Claire Frisot Performance : Masooma, Ange Leslie, Iva, Elorri Support : Camila, Josephina, Uli from Café Pink Video Games : Life Is Strange &amp; Choose Your Own Character The 4 levels of the video game "Choose Your Own Character" have been developed by Cécile Bally and Lisa Kaschubat based on characters and ideas from Elorri, Masooma, Eliya and Iva. Das Projekt „A Virtual World by Girls* : Choose Your Own Character” wird gefördert vom Fonds Darstellende Künste im Programm GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS als Teil von “Kultur macht stark. Bündnisse für Bildung” gefördert vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung. Trailer : Camille D. Tonnerre <img width="5706" height="3380" width_o="5706" height_o="3380" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/49466c3dfcf94c87eea409dd8654c08709d3f74e3d156823abd33bbb6838a458/Cecile-Bally-FELD-TheaterMayraWallraff-45.jpg" data-mid="246644710" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/49466c3dfcf94c87eea409dd8654c08709d3f74e3d156823abd33bbb6838a458/Cecile-Bally-FELD-TheaterMayraWallraff-45.jpg" /><img width="1821" height="1241" width_o="1821" height_o="1241" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4623f3a2036dbfe02671cbe650c3dbaa2e1591039372f54f6a1280869609f86f/Cecile-Bally-FELD-TheaterMayraWallraff-88b.jpg" data-mid="238432040" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4623f3a2036dbfe02671cbe650c3dbaa2e1591039372f54f6a1280869609f86f/Cecile-Bally-FELD-TheaterMayraWallraff-88b.jpg" /> <img width="2298" height="1292" width_o="2298" height_o="1292" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82faa3e4ba48c2bf956a22c040adf2d53053fad5cfe8b1f29d4d6918954e7603/Cecile-Bally-FELD-TheaterMayraWallraff-69b.jpg" data-mid="238433091" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82faa3e4ba48c2bf956a22c040adf2d53053fad5cfe8b1f29d4d6918954e7603/Cecile-Bally-FELD-TheaterMayraWallraff-69b.jpg" /> https://cecilebally.com/Uber-Uberuberubermorgen Thu, 08 Sep 2022 09:28:35 +0000 cécile bally https://cecilebally.com/Uber-Uberuberubermorgen <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3d0f6c7de32ead7809916ee4a6bfd7dfed3f5d71945baafadd96d6670ee278d/D5b00109.jpg" data-mid="155060418" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3d0f6c7de32ead7809916ee4a6bfd7dfed3f5d71945baafadd96d6670ee278d/D5b00109.jpg" /> ÜBER ÜBERÜBERÜBERMORGEN &nbsp;- eine Science Fiction Zeitreise&nbsp; The Day After the Day After Tomorrow - A science fiction time travel for children 6+ PREMIERE 6-10 October 2022 ↦ FELD THEATER, am Winterfeldplatz, Berlin 14-16 January 2023 ↦ PURPLE - International Dance Festival for young audience PREMIERE ENGLISH VERSION 18-21 April 2024 ↦ FELD THEATER, am Winterfeldplatz, Berlin&nbsp;15-16 May 2024 ↦ Theather o.N., Berlin The Day After the Day After Tomorrow, for children 6+, offers a positive vision of the future and questions our concept of time. Choreographers Cécile Bally and Cathy Walsh, together with drummer Steve Heather, time travel in a world inspired by Solarpunk science-fiction. <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9271312cbb145cd55011a0e84fcb74468b12d17a53528534740b4df96a8c73ae/D5b00236.jpg" data-mid="155060415" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9271312cbb145cd55011a0e84fcb74468b12d17a53528534740b4df96a8c73ae/D5b00236.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Wisst ihr es schon? Die Zukunft ist da! Überüberübermorgen ist gleich um die Ecke! Wie soll sie aussehen? Wird es mehr Natur in den Städte geben? Mehr Gespräche zwischen Menschen und Tieren? Zusammen mit Cécile und Cathy reist ihr in vergangene und zukünftige Welten und lernt dabei den Schlagzeug spielenden Tintelefant kennen. Er könnte uns helfen. Dafür aber müssen wir erst lernen, ihn zu verstehen. Und wisst Ihr was passiert, wenn man die Reihenfolge der Dinge ändert, die Reihenfolge der Tage, Wochen und Jahre dreht? Wir denken zusammen nach über unsere Beziehung zur Zeit und erzählen Euch von der Science-Fiction-Welt Solarpunk. Über Überüberübermorgen ist eine Zeitreise mit viel Magie, voller knalliger Kostüme, überbordendem Bühnenbild und lustigen Wesen, die halb Mensch / halb Tier sind. Lasst uns gemeinsam mit dem Tintelefant unsere Hoffnung für die Zukunft in die Tat umsetzen! Choreografie &amp; Performance: Cécile Bally &amp; Cathy WalshMusik/Sound: Steve HeatherTech. Leitung/Licht: Claire TerrienBühne: Yoav AdomiKostüm: Lea KiefferKostüm Assistenz: Sophie Vautour aka MeroeSet design Assistenz: Oded YonesKünstlerische Zusammenarbeit: Asaf AharonsonÖffentlichkeitsarbeit/Produktion: Frauke Niemann Eine Produktion von Cécile Bally &amp; Cathy Walsh in Koproduktion mit FELD Theater und Kooperation mit Theater o.N. Berlin. Über Überüberübermorgen ist ermöglicht durch die Residenzförderung Tanz 2020/2021 der Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa und durch eine Entwicklungs und Researchunterstützung des Graffiti Theatre Cork. Gefördert aus Mitteln des Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin. Review / Rezension “Die Choreografinnen Cécile Bally und Cathy Walsh unternehmen mit ihrer künstlerisch- wissenschaftlichen Recherche ein Projekt mit großem gesellschaftspolitischen Potential: Sie arbeiten mit Kindern zu ihrem&nbsp;Verständnis von Zeit undzu ihren Vorstellungen von dem, was in der Zukunft liegt. Dies ist, so möchte ich behaupten, für Kinder wir für&nbsp;erwachsene Menschen eine große Herausforderung, zumal wir Erwachsenen – in der sogenannten westlichen Welt –ausschließlich Zeit und Gesellschaft innerhalb des kapitalistischen Welt- und Werteverständnisses zu konzipieren gelernt haben. Es ist für uns also (mit den Philosophen T.J. Demos und Marc Fisher gesprochen) viel schwerer, eine Zukunft NACH dem Kapitalismus zu imaginieren als eine, die das kapitalistische Prinzip nur weiterdenkt. Künstlerinnen wie Cécile Bally und Cathy Walsh sind demnach, indem sie ein solch kritisch-choreografisches Projekt initiieren, als Pionierinnen und kreative Widerstandskämpferinnen zu begreifen.” _ Prof. Maren Witte "With their artistic-scientific research, the choreographers Cécile Bally and Cathy Walsh undertake a project&nbsp;with great socio-political potential: they work with children on their understanding of time and on their ideas&nbsp;of what the future holds. This is, I would argue, as much of a challenge for adults as it is for children, especially since we adults - in the so-called Western world, have learned to conceptualize Time and Society exclusively within the capitalist understanding of the world. So it is much harder for us (according to the philosophers T.J. Demos and Marc Fisher) to imagine a future AFTER capitalism than one that further considers&nbsp;the capitalist principle. Artists like Cécile Bally and Cathy Walsh, in initiating such a critical-choreographic project, are therefore to be understood as pioneers and creative resistance fighters". _ Prof. Maren Witten &nbsp; “Mit viel Witz, Zauber und bunten Farben begibt sich “Über Überüberübermorgen” auf eine Entdeckungsreise in die Zukunft, die die Kinder im Publikum sichtlich mitreißt und amüsiert.” _ Maria Ladopoulos in Tanzschreiber “With a great deal of wit, magic, and bright colours, “Über Überüberübermorgen” embarks on a journey of discovery into the future that visibly captivates and amuses the children in the audience.” _ Maria Ladopoulos in Tanzschreiber <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/504bafc4d977bbe5a0ecd3a6b0cb890ca529567cee60fc6e337cc48f4b232f35/D5a09936.jpg" data-mid="155060508" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/504bafc4d977bbe5a0ecd3a6b0cb890ca529567cee60fc6e337cc48f4b232f35/D5a09936.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/faaccd958610b251f8ae8dda2fde21885fd8c741117bbcc9e16c488ab09a56cf/D5b00023.jpg" data-mid="155060487" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/faaccd958610b251f8ae8dda2fde21885fd8c741117bbcc9e16c488ab09a56cf/D5b00023.jpg" /> https://cecilebally.com/DIE-AUSSCHREITUNG-LE-DEBORDEMENT-THE-FLOOD Thu, 17 Jun 2021 10:24:19 +0000 cécile bally https://cecilebally.com/DIE-AUSSCHREITUNG-LE-DEBORDEMENT-THE-FLOOD <img width="1130" height="1600" width_o="1130" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28507f84ab29902ab1573c6130ff1c90c354f0226a9106ac3906af75483682b9/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-10-at-17.54.01.jpeg" data-mid="124133207" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28507f84ab29902ab1573c6130ff1c90c354f0226a9106ac3906af75483682b9/WhatsApp-Image-2021-11-10-at-17.54.01.jpeg" /> DIE AUSSCHREITUNGLE DEBORDEMENT THE FLOOD le-debordement.com German Premiere : December 2021 - Ballhaus Ost, Berlin French Premiere : November 2022 - Festival BORN TO BE ALIVE - Manège, Scène Nationale - Reims ENMisty summer morning, Glitch and Copper Key are walking towards Digital Park. They are friends. It’s 2101. The world has been flooded, and yes, that has challenged the urban architecture, As they pass the door of the social wellness facility, the »Safety, Sanity, and Security« sign flashes, and a vague memory pops up : they remember that they don’t remember. Caught in an autocratic virtual world that feeds them with synthetic fries, they wonder how long they can continue to adapt. Will they succeed to hack the future? Choregrapher Cécile Bally and Emma Tricard create with the foley artist Niels Bovri a performance based on a science-fiction novella that was written collectively with various groups in Kortrijk, Aix-en-Provence, Santiago de Chile, Reims, and Berlin. Drawing from issues affecting each of these local communities, the piece became a political thriller, delving into questions of survival in autocratic (AI driven) worlds. FR Nous sommes en 2101. Le monde a été inondé et les villes sont profondément transformées. Pris dans un système virtuel autocratique qui les nourrit avec des frites synthétiques, les protagonistes se demandent combien de temps elles peuvent continuer à s’adapter. Vont-elles réussir à pirater le futur ? Tel est l’argument du Débordement, un récit de science-fiction écrit collectivement lors d’ateliers participatifs à Aix-en-Provence, Berlin, Santiago et Courtrai. En pleine conscience de la violence de notre société et des menaces qui l’abîment, les chorégraphes et danseuses Cécile Bally et Emma Tricard s’emparent de cet univers sombre pour en faire une fable chorégraphique futuriste et déjantée. À partir de la version française du texte, les deux interprètes déroulent une partition corporelle, avec un sens aigu du décalage et de l’autodérision. L’utilisation délibérée de matériaux simples, bricolés avec un humour réjouissant, renforce l’impression constante d’être dans un monde underground. Au carrefour de la danse, du théâtre et de l’absurde, Le Débordement bénéficie aussi des bruitages et de la musique live de Niels Bovri. A sa façon, drôle et fantasque, la pièce révèle ainsi un trio qui tente de se souvenir de son humanité, de réinventer ses propres règles dans une projection librement fantasmée du monde de demain, quelque part entre Tati et la série d’anticipation Black Mirror. DE Ein dunstiger Sommermorgen. Glitch und Copper Key gehen in Richtung Digitalpark. Sie sind Freundinnen. Wir schreiben das Jahr 2101. Die Welt wurde überflutet, und ja, das hat die Architektur seither in Frage gestellt. Als sie vorbeigehen, blinkt das Schild »Safety, Sanity and Security« an der Tür auf. Eine vage Erinnerung taucht auf. Sie erinnern sich, dass sie sich nicht erinnern. Gefangen in einer autokratischen virtuellen Welt, die sie mit synthetischen Pommes füttert, fragen sie sich, wie lange sie sich noch anpassen können? Wird es ihnen gelingen, die Zukunft zu hacken?
 Die Choreografinnen Cécile Bally und Emma Tricard kreieren mit dem Geräuschemacher Niels Bovri eine Tanzperformance auf der Grundlage eines Science-Fiction-Romans. Weiterentwickelt aus Textmaterial von Schreibworkshops in Kortrijk, Santiago de Chile, Aix-en-Provence und Berlin wurde Die Ausschreitung zu einem politischen Thriller. ↦ REZENSION &nbsp; Choreography, Performance, Scenography : Emma Tricard &amp; Cécile BallySound design : Niels BovriLight Design : &nbsp;Claire TerrienCostume &amp; Props Design : &nbsp;Sara Wendt Outside-eye : Asaf Aharonson, Tabea Xenia Magyar, Liselotte SingerProduction Management, Public Relations : &nbsp;Frauke Niemann (D), Louise Vantalon (F) A production by Cécile Bally and Association Vague AventureCo-produced by 3 bis f - centre d'arts contemporains d’intérêt national - Aix en Provence, Manège Scène Nationale - Reims, Fonds Transfabrik, german-french Fonds for performing art and RESONANCIAS Goethe Institut + Institut Français Chile)With support of by Ballhaus Ost - Berlin, kunstencentrum BUDA - Kortrijk and NAVE - Santiago. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and DRAC PACA The trilingual publication of the novella "The Flood | Die Ausschreitung | Le Débordement" was written in co-authorship with Clay A.D. (see contact for ordering) <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79175d43ea79efcbe63b536ddb86f2231eeeef48b828b119b692a9cdc4b52bd8/D5094540.jpg" data-mid="129271918" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/79175d43ea79efcbe63b536ddb86f2231eeeef48b828b119b692a9cdc4b52bd8/D5094540.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1198" width_o="1800" height_o="1198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02fe1945b2840dc08a822b9b83c53cebef5bf4e3e88b77ccfa9173260703e807/D4b71504.jpg" data-mid="129272235" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02fe1945b2840dc08a822b9b83c53cebef5bf4e3e88b77ccfa9173260703e807/D4b71504.jpg" /> <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6463fe20f600bbc0adb60d8b5ef287fa8278a47f3d45dc948d63584544434abc/D5094652.jpg" data-mid="156720861" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6463fe20f600bbc0adb60d8b5ef287fa8278a47f3d45dc948d63584544434abc/D5094652.jpg" /> https://cecilebally.com/THE-END-OF-THE-ROAD Sun, 19 Jan 2020 15:34:13 +0000 cécile bally https://cecilebally.com/THE-END-OF-THE-ROAD <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9fda49b8325f3b5a5d69486cb8cbb4027fd1a2ee9377b7dbf53a34e6b73ac079/D5064796.jpg" data-mid="63265751" border="0" data-scale="99" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9fda49b8325f3b5a5d69486cb8cbb4027fd1a2ee9377b7dbf53a34e6b73ac079/D5064796.jpg" /> THE END OF THE ROAD &nbsp;<img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44495ddab0d76ce437bcf557ad9f26e887d02669adcc6d61c5bf01a811c55171/D5065168.jpg" data-mid="63262086" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44495ddab0d76ce437bcf557ad9f26e887d02669adcc6d61c5bf01a811c55171/D5065168.jpg" />EN A group of teenage girls meet. Sitting on a bench, they share memories and songs, discuss their personal and collective troubles, and dream of what they could become, oscillating between boredom and panic in the highly-planned architecture of their environment. Trapped amongst the remains of an urban nightmare built on earnest but misguided community housing projects, they wonder: Are there still possibilities waiting at The End of the Road? In this work, Cécile Bally uses Sitcom-strategies to examine “Teenage Angst” and visions of radical change at the peripheries of urban life. A maximalist scenography made of moving backdrops and an orginal soundtrack by the rapper Haszcara transport the audience into an imaginary space at the borders of the city. The End of the Road&nbsp;is a celebration of «zoner», a french verb describing the action of «hanging out outside while doing nothing» : a verb used to criticize a lifestyle associated with young people living in the French suburbs, «zoner» is here presented as a space of potentiality outside of consumerism, based on friendship and use of public space. DE Dystopische Vororte, Teenager*innen, ihre Träume und Albträume: Eine Performance - Sitcom. Eine Gruppe Teenagerinnen trifft sich. Sie träumen von der Zukunft und teilen sowohl individuelle als auch kollektive Erinnerungen, schwanken zwischen Langeweile und Panik in der hochgeplanten Architektur ihrer Umgebung.&nbsp;Gefangen in den Überresten eines urbanen Albtraums, der auf fehlgeleiteten Gemeinschaftswohnprojekten aufgebaut ist, fragen Sie sich: Was erwartet Sie am Ende der Straße? Cécile Bally nutzt das Sitcom-Format, um „Teenage Angst“ und Visionen radikaler Veränderung in der Peripherie des Stadtlebens zu untersuchen. Sie führt das Publikum in einen imaginären Raum hinter den Grenzen der Stadt. CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY Cécile Bally PERFORMANCE Julia Plawgo, Sunayana Shetty, Layton Lachman, Cécile Bally RAP - ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Haszcara DRAMATURGICAL SUPPORT Alexandre Viard, Jonas Rutgeerts LIGHT DESIGN Emma Juliard SOUND DESIGN Jassem Hindi STAGE DESIGN Pablo Ramón Benitez, Cécile Bally COSTUMES&amp;PROPS Sara Wendt OUTSIDE-EYE Asaf Aharonson PRODUCTION Ann-Christin Görtz, Valerie Terwei PRESSE Louise TrueheartA production by Cécile Bally in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Capital Cultural Fund. With the support of De School van Gaasbeek and Flutgraben Performances. ↦ TRAILER Premiere / 13. - 16.02.2020 Sophiensaele, Berlin <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5924d60dddb8d68605ea2e2a3fc99fb95d37a32eeaa2835f54b87f3d468a3ff/D5065078.jpg" data-mid="64047104" border="0" data-scale="51" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5924d60dddb8d68605ea2e2a3fc99fb95d37a32eeaa2835f54b87f3d468a3ff/D5065078.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="864" width_o="1200" height_o="864" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a93abb541f786516caffefe5a430513fe3fe929bd593aad122033cab29d7772/ezgif.com-gif-to-apng2.png" data-mid="63267142" border="0" data-scale="47" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a93abb541f786516caffefe5a430513fe3fe929bd593aad122033cab29d7772/ezgif.com-gif-to-apng2.png" /> <img width="1500" height="998" width_o="1500" height_o="998" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/192f30fe7db919dd0bd12e545cfde7e12eae5c39fbbad820be2839befc452770/D4b59036.jpg" data-mid="64046899" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/192f30fe7db919dd0bd12e545cfde7e12eae5c39fbbad820be2839befc452770/D4b59036.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c47bde86a6a7af8ce18cf20fc1bdf110e3ced3391fe781aa318e7958d2c883d3/ezgif.com-gif-to-apng1.png" data-mid="63266381" border="0" data-scale="49" data-no-zoom data-draggable src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c47bde86a6a7af8ce18cf20fc1bdf110e3ced3391fe781aa318e7958d2c883d3/ezgif.com-gif-to-apng1.png" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e6323045acd02d1f92d0970772d411b758ae096256030e553bb6e98ae0d9840/D5064788.jpg" data-mid="63264182" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e6323045acd02d1f92d0970772d411b758ae096256030e553bb6e98ae0d9840/D5064788.jpg" /> Different buildings from different peripheries perform as the background for this piece: LES ÉSPACES D’ABRAXAS (1982), built by Spanish architecht Ricardo Bofill, is the kind of post-modern utopian housing project erected to solve a housing crisis in the east of Paris. It hosts 600 living units, spread out over three buildings. Inspired by the Greek Odeon and the Roman Amphitheater, this place was designed to be centered around itself in an attempt to decentralize the Parisian metropolis. Its purpose failed. Due to its futuristic atmosphere the building has been the scene for dystopian science ction lms, such as Brazil (1984) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (2015). WBS 70 OR WOHNUNGSBAUSERIE 70, is a specic type of Plattenbau, a construction method that makes use of large prefabricated concrete slabs. The technique enabled the German Democaric Republic (GDR) to develop whole new areas very fast. Throughout the 1970s, WBS 70 buildings rose up all over Berlin. One of the prime examples – ‘die Platte aller Platten’ – can be found on Roederplatz. In the same place, there is a series of another type of Plattenbau (WBS/QP 71-R) adorned by big rainbows. LES DAMIERS (1976), built by Jacques Binoux and Michel Folliasson in Courbevoie, a suburb of Paris that became a major business district over the last years. It comprises 640 apartments divided in four buildings. Twelve years ago, the inhabitants of Les Damiers learned that the buildings would be demolished and replaced by two gigantic towers, the Hermitage Plaza, which should host of ces, high end appartments and a Hotel. The habitants of Les Damiers have been evicted but due to a lack of funding, the construction of the towers hasn’t started yet. LES ARCADES DU LAC (1981), built by Ricardo Bofill, is an ensemble of appartement buildings located 25km west of Paris. Due to its close proximity to Versailles, but also due to the immensity of the building, the Arcades are also known as the “Versailles of the people”. Constructed as a pedestrian area, the site is suprisingly empty as all blocks are connected through an underground parking system which makes it uncessary to pass through the outside to go home. <img width="1500" height="998" width_o="1500" height_o="998" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97243b288b308ea6f8e02d355e2e1921fb48b50305d0f866582ac5669e79bfb5/D4b59053.jpg" data-mid="64047216" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/97243b288b308ea6f8e02d355e2e1921fb48b50305d0f866582ac5669e79bfb5/D4b59053.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="998" width_o="1500" height_o="998" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0251a6168c750e4f7fdfcf63753f8769a09339aa26ddf5aa1769c52f3e18a636/D4b59022.jpg" data-mid="63264530" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0251a6168c750e4f7fdfcf63753f8769a09339aa26ddf5aa1769c52f3e18a636/D4b59022.jpg" /> Photo credits on stage : Mikhail Vassiliev, Inese Kalnina, Laurent Kronental, Pierre Châtel-Innocenti, Cécile Bally https://cecilebally.com/THE-PRICE-IS-RIGHT Wed, 10 Oct 2018 17:02:20 +0000 cécile bally https://cecilebally.com/THE-PRICE-IS-RIGHT <img width="1920" height="1278" width_o="1920" height_o="1278" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eedf24ba80d6e851dc7059ee228706f90776339acba89336a4988599c4a78282/D4b30990.jpg" data-mid="29942230" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eedf24ba80d6e851dc7059ee228706f90776339acba89336a4988599c4a78282/D4b30990.jpg" /> THE PRICE IS RIGHT The Price Is Right is a choreographic nightmare, a study of the supermarket – what is sold and what is done in this space? How do we meet each other and what would we dream to encounter there? The work is a critical tribute to a place where we all go, a modern place of gathering and harvesting. The supermarket is a daily symbol of the consumer society – a visual materialization of the concept of accumulation. It is a place for all and yet a place that segregates, as there are different supermarkets and products for every social class and every lifestyle. The basic principle of the supermarket, self-service, has created a place where people seek contact with objects instead of humans. Digging further in her desire to create performances as dreams, Cécile Bally is researching this hyper-normed space that paradoxically stimulates our impulsive desires. The Price Is Right depicts the supermarket as an ideal survival zone, a last resort where one has to deal with prices, promotional jingles, stealing, absurdity and apocalypse. “ The big supermarket down the road is always open: all day its electric doors slide stolidly back and forth, admitting and discharging streams of people. Its neon lit space is so impersonal and so eternal that it emanates both comfort and alienation. Inside you can forget that you're not alone, or that you are." Rachel Cusk, Aftermath CHOREOGRAPHY, STAGE Cécile Bally PERFORMANCE Asaf Aharonson, Cathy Walsh, Marie Ursin LIGHT DESIGN Eva Alonso SOUND DESIGN Jassem Hindi COSTUME DESIGN Sara Wendt PRODUCTION, PR: Ann-Christin Görtz A production by Cécile Bally in coproduction with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. With friendly support of KunstencentrumBUDA, Aula/Milchhof, Public in Private and Kostümkollektiv. Research funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V. &nbsp; ↦ INTERVIEW ↦ REZENSION Premiere / 21. - 24.11.2018 Sophiensaele, Berlin <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40854008cb474ea77b3ccd81870acd21e330da042dbefc49877c4379f7d28ab0/D5023343.jpg" data-mid="139641171" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40854008cb474ea77b3ccd81870acd21e330da042dbefc49877c4379f7d28ab0/D5023343.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a580aa3d22dd10d9ccddae85ef3c329af7e6afb4c9811acb62fad1fa405af8f7/D5023248.jpg" data-mid="29870783" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a580aa3d22dd10d9ccddae85ef3c329af7e6afb4c9811acb62fad1fa405af8f7/D5023248.jpg" /> <img width="5695" height="3802" width_o="5695" height_o="3802" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/102ea8cfb960b2426bb64e014fe54e7c2c18f103ac56f4d8452e9e84212119ba/TPIR-high-res-29.jpg" data-mid="28793732" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/102ea8cfb960b2426bb64e014fe54e7c2c18f103ac56f4d8452e9e84212119ba/TPIR-high-res-29.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a9d9bc79b308ebfa4d642443ae620eb9320649c8174f9ac8b87de4e037089e0/The-Price-Is-Right.jpg" data-mid="139641161" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a9d9bc79b308ebfa4d642443ae620eb9320649c8174f9ac8b87de4e037089e0/The-Price-Is-Right.jpg" /> <img width="5258" height="3510" width_o="5258" height_o="3510" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61145919151b571847346479b1c83cd077f91df1f9c354b8ad489e6f97ed91e4/TPIR-high-res-18.jpg" data-mid="28793626" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61145919151b571847346479b1c83cd077f91df1f9c354b8ad489e6f97ed91e4/TPIR-high-res-18.jpg" /> https://cecilebally.com/AKTION Sun, 07 Oct 2018 16:42:15 +0000 cécile bally https://cecilebally.com/AKTION <img width="5202" height="2947" width_o="5202" height_o="2947" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83b8b6f00b7cae3743c4001c04b52912ad8a5a1e2fe1411b9609f3dbbfbaab12/Ada-Studio-Nah-Dran-71-Ccile-27B.jpg" data-mid="25673077" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83b8b6f00b7cae3743c4001c04b52912ad8a5a1e2fe1411b9609f3dbbfbaab12/Ada-Studio-Nah-Dran-71-Ccile-27B.jpg" />AKTION AKTION is a lecture-performance about supermarket. The supermarket is a place where we all go, a modern place of gathering and harvesting; a hyper normed space that paradoxically stimulates our impulsive desires. Commodities are at the centre of this space, which standardizes our way of living and creates communal references while emphasizing economic disparities. Our research takes place mainly inside supermarket where we are collecting movements, images, micro-stories and sounds in order to create a sort of collective autobiography of this place. We are starting the reflexion as close as possible to the context of the observation before to allow a wild fictional interpretation of facts. This lecture performance is reflecting on how categories and schema can inspire performative states. <img width="5538" height="3692" width_o="5538" height_o="3692" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/827c32ccd660f3fa98d962f7caf6418dcc9d62183a334d0bf48390ab3967d4f2/Ada-Studio-Nah-Dran-71-Ccile.jpg" data-mid="25673281" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/827c32ccd660f3fa98d962f7caf6418dcc9d62183a334d0bf48390ab3967d4f2/Ada-Studio-Nah-Dran-71-Ccile.jpg" /> A lecture-performance by Cécile Bally researched together with Asaf Aharonson, Cathy Walsh, Marie Ursin and Eva AlonsoThanks to Annie Ernaux for her book Regarde les lumières mon amour from where it all started Financed by Fonds DaKu Initialförderung with the support of Kunstencentrum BUDAD <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a93ca4c1b0aee202f06060ba5ac1e5c8593e0100b34be9a18b40679368b66083/Ada-Studio-Nah-Dran-71-Ccile-11.jpg" data-mid="25673708" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a93ca4c1b0aee202f06060ba5ac1e5c8593e0100b34be9a18b40679368b66083/Ada-Studio-Nah-Dran-71-Ccile-11.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Premiere / August 2018 - Ada Studio, Berlin https://cecilebally.com/AN-ORGANIZATIONAL-STUDY-THAT-S-MY-WORK Thu, 02 Jul 2015 21:47:25 +0000 cécile bally https://cecilebally.com/AN-ORGANIZATIONAL-STUDY-THAT-S-MY-WORK <img width="3136" height="2352" width_o="3136" height_o="2352" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50cdec30e5a4ef254efdefd1446b8154a50fd5820482cec439afa882447f1de4/L1100860.JPG" data-mid="25625128" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50cdec30e5a4ef254efdefd1446b8154a50fd5820482cec439afa882447f1de4/L1100860.JPG" /> AN ORGANIZATIONAL STUDY, THAT’S MY WORK If you understand what I say you will realize that I am not saying so much, if you don’t, you might guess that I try to say a lot. From the inside, I just try to follow an idea until the end and it is already a good challenge considering that I am looking at the stage from above in order to be sure to end at the front right corner. A solo by Cécile BallyOutside eye Angela Schubot, Asaf Aharonson, Alexandre Viard With the friendly support of HZT Berlin and Goethe Institut Nachwuchsförderung In 2013, I wrote a master’s thesis in decision theory on how ideas, in a creative process in contemporary dance, emerge, develop and blend into a piece. What is negotiated and who is deciding? I was looking at dance through ethnographic glasses in order to better understand its organization und created a model conceptualizing my observations. In this solo, I try to understand, with a dose of absurdity, what it means to react physically to academic methodologies. How can a dramaturgy embody the conventional shapes of academic writing but not the meaning of its content? Nudity as a costume and two simple props are chosen for their ability to take on different meanings and be the support of a rapid transformation of ideas. ↦ TRAILER Dates: °April 2016 - Dock 11, Berlin °October 2015 - TheYard.Residency - Mitos, Limassol, Cyprus / Nachwuchsförderung Goethe Institut °January 2015 - Tanztage 2015 - Sophiensaele, Berlin °November 2014 - Works at Work - Dansehallerne, Copenhagen °Mai 2014 - Ponderosa, Stolzenhagen, Germany °April 2014 - HZT INZUCHT Festival - Uferstudios, Berlin https://cecilebally.com/THE-SLEEP-OF-REASON Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:06:01 +0000 cécile bally https://cecilebally.com/THE-SLEEP-OF-REASON <img width="3307" height="2822" width_o="3307" height_o="2822" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dcc9bc5c379c5b9996bbfaf6c7b3ce01934242bc8b6d52ac49fdccab814ae35a/CECILE-BALLY_2270.jpg" data-mid="139644861" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dcc9bc5c379c5b9996bbfaf6c7b3ce01934242bc8b6d52ac49fdccab814ae35a/CECILE-BALLY_2270.jpg" />THE SLEEP OF REASON<img width="3307" height="2112" width_o="3307" height_o="2112" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc006a9c69bea7592447a8b1e1fc676902fca8d593c3d66a8fadd0da324adf66/CECILE-BALLY_3937.jpg" data-mid="25625115" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc006a9c69bea7592447a8b1e1fc676902fca8d593c3d66a8fadd0da324adf66/CECILE-BALLY_3937.jpg" /> In Francisco de Goya’s famous print “The sleep of reason produces monsters” (1797) we see Goya asleep on his desk surrounded by creatures of the night: owls, cats, and bats. The backside of the engraving reads “Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with reason, fantasy is the mother of the arts and the origin of their marvels.” A century later, in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is published, and it took precisely one hundred more years for the human world to broadcast Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in 1997, on TV. In THE SLEEP OF REASON, vampires speak for themselves and look at our world from their perspective, playing with the superstitions and clichés surrounding them. This work proposes an appropriation of reason by the world of the undead. If humans have stopped believing in vampires, do they still believe in the magic of theater? Can the stage maintain its magical potential when all the tricks are on display? Choreography, Performance Cécile Bally Performance&nbsp; Julia Plawgo, Louise Trueheart Light Design Sandra Blatterer Scenography Cécile Bally, Sandra Blatterer, Alexandre Viard&nbsp; Costum&nbsp;Louise Trueheart, Cécile Bally Outside eye Antonia Baehr, Asaf Aharonson Special thanks for their guest appearance to Liselotte Singer, Martin Hansen and Asaf AharonsonIn co-production with the SOPHIENSÆLE Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With the support of HZT Berlin. ↦ REVIEW An rasselnden Ketten hängt Cécile Bally, durstig, furchtlos, angetreten, mit ihren Gehilfinnen ein rosarotes Kunstblutbad zu veranstalten, die Unsterblichkeit zu feiern, jahrhundertjährige Vampir*-Klischees abzuschütteln und Goyas Ungeheuer aus dem „Schlaf der Vernunft“ auf die Gegenwart loszulassen. Das ist der wache Traum von der Wollust am Theater, das seinen Schauer/Zauberwitz dadurch gewinnt, dass die Farbpatronen vom halb-halb-sichtbaren Techniker abgefeuert werden, die Vampirin Kreuze aus Holzpfählen zimmert und sich ihren schlimmsten Albträumen stellt. Vampirin neben Nicht-Vampirin, neben Baby-Vampirin, neben Dinosaurier-Vampir, neben Knoblauchgirlanden. Sound im bunten Dunkelreich liefert Katy Perry: We can dance, until we die, you and I will be young forever. Sorry, Dracula, das war’s dann mit Patriarchat <img width="3307" height="1685" width_o="3307" height_o="1685" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d1a9756dd2c319a14f954907cca2980e8e74cbd097ffd08800d7cc34216c667e/CECILE-BALLY__3846.jpg" data-mid="25625116" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d1a9756dd2c319a14f954907cca2980e8e74cbd097ffd08800d7cc34216c667e/CECILE-BALLY__3846.jpg" /> <img width="2837" height="3189" width_o="2837" height_o="3189" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db684f2efd63b20bea19b6ff73f39eed6fcc405aadfa353171e98deea55c42cb/CECILE-BALLY_3755.jpg" data-mid="139645668" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db684f2efd63b20bea19b6ff73f39eed6fcc405aadfa353171e98deea55c42cb/CECILE-BALLY_3755.jpg" /> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Premiere / January 2017 - Tanztage - Sophiensaele Berlin https://cecilebally.com/ON-TRANSITIVITY-AND-SUCCESS-A-SHOE Thu, 02 Jul 2015 21:40:53 +0000 cécile bally https://cecilebally.com/ON-TRANSITIVITY-AND-SUCCESS-A-SHOE <img width="3136" height="2352" width_o="3136" height_o="2352" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/003a7d80dc6411ac583d42f21099fa94e46080838cec914a8814d433584c3218/L1110635.JPG" data-mid="25625126" border="0" data-scale="100" alt="ON TRANSITIVITY AND SUCCESS: A SHOE " data-caption="ON TRANSITIVITY AND SUCCESS: A SHOE " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/003a7d80dc6411ac583d42f21099fa94e46080838cec914a8814d433584c3218/L1110635.JPG" /> ON TRANSITIVITY AND SUCCESS: A SHOE Choreography Cécile Bally Performance Sunayana Shetty, Marc P. Gabriel, Asaf Aharonson, Liselotte Singer, Julia Plawgo Artistic Advisor Clément Layes Thanks to HZT Berlin &amp; Emma Tricard, Alexandre Viard, Tabea Xenia Magyar, Philipp Enders&nbsp;Premiere 2015 - HZT Student Festival Knowledge traditionally refers to the world of science and rationality. Now let’s change the frame: If artists were the ones in charge of the creation of knowledge, what would our knowledge look like? How would we apprehend the objects and entities surrounding us? ON TRANSITIVITY AND SUCCESS: A SHOE is confronting 5 performers and 40 objects with scientific methods used to create knowledge. What is the relation between refutation and failure? Demonstration and success? What is the place of emotions in the logic of scientific discovery? The experimentation is happening on stage, a space where magic can happen rationality can be shaken up and the audience is willing to believe, for a while, in it. ON TRANSITIVITY AND SUCCESS: A SHOE is therefore dealing with a paradox. The performer are constantly creating new truth and knowledge through common methods allowing a shared knowledge to appear. Nevertheless, magic and irrationality are here at the centre of knowledge creation. . <img width="2793" height="2093" width_o="2793" height_o="2093" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e72398cc664cb958591720677cc3f41f918f1aa03e57c84650f779cf847e89a5/L1110695---Copie.JPG" data-mid="25625124" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e72398cc664cb958591720677cc3f41f918f1aa03e57c84650f779cf847e89a5/L1110695---Copie.JPG" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/adf5d5056809eba5c1483370a59a86723160f5ae9d08fb9508b678d8b467a41a/BA-Festival_Cecile-_SUP7798.jpg" data-mid="25625125" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/adf5d5056809eba5c1483370a59a86723160f5ae9d08fb9508b678d8b467a41a/BA-Festival_Cecile-_SUP7798.jpg" /> <img width="3136" height="2352" width_o="3136" height_o="2352" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/205cf4c9ee84cbd3fd82bb72224392d3711025d88b7df841810a50d5890b5b66/asaf2.jpg" data-mid="25625127" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/205cf4c9ee84cbd3fd82bb72224392d3711025d88b7df841810a50d5890b5b66/asaf2.jpg" /> Dates:September 2015 - Het Veem Theater, AmsterdamApril 2015 - Pop!Show!Fuck!Up! Festival - HZT Uferstudios, Berlin