APPLIQUE

To purposely hustle the codes belonging to other self-adressed and auto-referential artistic fields, as well as to adress to an audience which hardly visits rock clubs, Velma brings to the theatres the Applique spectacle, a performance thought for this type of venue and audience, the music of Velma still dominating. In addition to the musicians themselves, two actresses and a film projectionnist are present on stage. In a physically painful posture, the actresses repeat the same simple operation, their increasing tiredness acting as dramaturgy. Freed from dialogue, narrative elements and acting, Applique creates an abstract universe and fully plays with the time aspect.

A Velma musical performance

With: Marie-Madeleine Pasquier, Valérie Liengme, Valérie Huguenin, Christophe Jaquet, Stéphane Vecchione, Christian Garcia

Music and conception: Velma

Super-8 projections: Olivier Mariette

Lighting designing: Lionel Haubois and Olivier Mariette

Sound designing: Julien Grandjean

Costumes: Tania D’Ambrogio

– September 16th, 2006 in Ballhaus Naunynstr. (D-BERLIN)
– January 26th, 2002 in Kunstencentrum Belgie (B-HASSELT)
– October 20th-21st, 2001 in Torino chiama! festival, Infinto Ltd (I-TORINO)
– September 15th, 2000 in Théâtre de l’Arsenic / Start-Op Festival (CH-LAUSANNE) – with Gilles Jobin, La Ribot and Danielle Brazelle