VELMA SUPERSTAR

With Velma Superstar the group tries out fame even if it is just for one night.
To reach that goal Velma appeals to various success ingredients.
– Fantasies: like becoming an opera singer, a first violin, or a pop singer dressed in a sparkling suit similar to the one of seventies celebrities.
– A choir of 30 individuals: volunteers are recruited in each city where Velma Superstar tours
– A string quartet
– And « VELMA » written in giant letters behind the stage
In the surprising context of Velma Superstar « spectacular », Velma members compose actually in spite of appearances a performance in continuation with their previous creations such as Cyclique or Rondo. Willing to concentrate on what makes its specificity and its strength the group simply creates music even if it is in a very unusual way.
So Velma Superstar is not a « show on … » No analysis of the star system, no one-sided statement on entertainment or show business here. Above all Velma Superstar is an experiment, a test including spectacular. And nobody can predict the result of this experiment before witnessing it.

A Velma musical performance

With :
 Jean-Christophe Huguenin
, Christian Garcia-Gaucher
, Christophe Jaquet
, Arantxa Martinez
, Stéphane Vecchione

Music: Velma

Training Choir: Diane Decker

Lighting designing: Laurent Junod.

Sound designing: Clive Jenkins.

Costumes: Tania D’Ambrogio.


Scenography: Jean-Christophe Huguenin, Massimo Furlan.

Rhythm coordination: Valérie Huguenin

Construction: Serge Perret.

Production & administration: Regina Bolsterli, Valentine Lugrin, Anja Haelg.

The original quatuor: Marion Rolland, Lubomira Tschamper, Camille Stoll, Hristo Kouzmanov onto composition by Christian Garcia-Gaucher.

On tour production: Valentine Lugrin, Anja Haelg

On tour light: Guillaume Gex.

On tour sound: Clive Jenkins, Jeremy Conne

On tour quatuor: Guenolat Fatout, Anne Fatout, Elodie Steinegger, Anne-Sophie Ratajcak, Patrick Schleuter

The original choir: Tania Andreani, Anna Andreiuolo, Christophe Baddour, Dominique Baillon, Sylvia Corthay, Angelica Currat, Aurelie Deblue, Claire-Lise Deblue, Veronique Dupont, Etienne Elsner, Hans-Willem Flujit, Claude Freymond, Marie Gazeau, Filippo Gonieri, Stephanie Grosjean, Isabelle Guillaume, Anne-Sylvie Henchoz, Valerie Huguenin, Nathalie Imhof, Marlene Jeannerat, Helene Jomini, Leila Klouche, Sandrine Lafaix, Valerie Liengme, Olivier Mariette, Celine Mauro, Sonia Meyer, Natalie Meystre, Catherine Monney, Sarah Neumann, Laurence Philipe, Raphaelle Renken, Frederic Rosse, Andrea Tuerler, Luigi Viandante, Alain Weber.

A Velma production, in coproduction with the Centre d’art scénique contemporain / Arsenic (Lausanne, CH), Theater Gessnerallee (Zurich, CH), the Forum Freies Theater (Dusseldorf, D).

With the support of: the City of Lausanne, State of Vaud, Loterie Romande, Pro Helvetia / The Swiss arts council, Migros Culture percentage.
This project was awarded a bursary by the Interdisciplinary Fund of the SSA/Swiss Society of Authors.
In collaboration with LUFF, Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival.

July 02th 2011, theaterformen Opernhaus, Hannover (D)

June 13-15 2008, Body-mind festival, Warsaw (PL)

May 20-21th 2007, the 4+4 days in motion, Praha (CZ)

May 03rd-05th 2007, HAU1 (Hebbel am Ufer), Berlin (D)

March 16th 2007, Gessnerallee, Zurich (CH)

February 08-09th 2007, Theaterzaal, Vooruit, Ghent (B)

November 07-08th 2006, euro-scene festival, Leipzig (D)

September 11-12th 2006, la batie festival, Geneva (CH)

May 20-21th 2006, frictions festival, Parvis St-Jean, Dijon (F)

March 3-4th 2006, Forum Freies Theater, Duesseldorf (D)

January 20-21th 2006, Gessnerallee, Zurich (CH)

October 14-15th 2005, Metropole theatre, Lausanne (CH)