CYCLIQUE

In 1999, upon releasing its second album « Cyclique », Velma felt an urge to propose its music on another level, in a different form. This desire brought us to develop a performance inspired by the music but extending it to the visible universe. The challenge consisted in keeping the abstraction of the music while materializing it into a physical envelope. By being formal and functional we avoided a narrative drift, which would have annihilated the proposition.

After being successfully premiered at les Urbaines festival in December 1999, Velma accepted the offer of the Arsenic in Lausanne to further develop the piece into a more achieved performance. Cyclique2 was premiered in Arsenic in November 2000, bringing the work furthermore toward the edge of abstraction.

A Velma musical performance

With: Marie-Madeleine Pasquier, Françoise Boillat, Christian Garcia-Gaucher, Guillaume Béguin, Christophe Jaquet, Stéphane Vecchione

Music and conception: Velma

Set designing & super-8: Olivier Mariette

Lighting and set designing: Laurent Junod

Sound designing: Julien Grandjean

Rythme coordination: Valérie Huguenin

Costumes: Tania D’Ambrogio

A Velma production, in coproduction with the Centre d’art scénique contemporain / Arsenic (Lausanne, CH).

With the support of: the City of Lausanne, State of Vaud, Loterie Romande, Pro Helvetia/The Swiss Arts Council and SSA/Swiss Society of Authors.
Cyclique made with the extra support of Les Urbaines festival (Lausanne, CH).

Cyclique

December 3rd-4th, 1999, in Les Urbaines festival, (CH-LAUSANNE)

Cyclique2

November 16th-26th, 2000 in Théâtre de l’Arsenic (CH-LAUSANNE)
December 7th-10th, 2000 in Théâtre de l’Usine (CH-GENEVE)