Simply Camilla
Histoire de Camille is the name given to a painted panel that can be seen on the first floor of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tours: it is the front part of a wedding chest, was painted around 1460-1470 in Florence, and is one of the few MNR (Musées Nationaux Récupération) works that the Tours museum houses. Between historical study and play choreographic game, Simply Camilla presents the painted scenes from this Italian chest. The scenes illustrate the story of the heroine Camille (found in The Aeneid): between flight and wild childhood, amazon figure and epic battle, imaginary worlds and dances travel to their heart's content - with cardboard horses and trumpets, fake river, real violin, musical saw, song; with a lot of Virgil and a little Boccaccio, but not too much (the author of The Decameron was a real misogynist after all).
Juste Camille a été créée le 16 mars 2024 pour et par les artistes étudiant.e.s de l’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette de Charleville-Mézières (13e promotion).
Une première version de Juste Camille a été créée en juin 2018 au Centre Chorégraphique National de Tours – direction Thomas Lebrun, dans le cadre de l’Atelier chorégraphique (voir travaux connexes passés).
