MONTREUIL
Every season since Pauline Bayle's arrival, the Théâtre Public de Montreuil has pursued a partnership with a group of young people aged 16 to 25, called Les Adelphes*, who are integrated into the project and the life of the theater. During the season, they are offered a program of events at the TPM and at several cultural venues in the Île-de-France region.
Accompanied for the third season by Gaëlle Bourges, Agnès Butet, Camille Gerbeau, and Stéphane Monteiro, these young people took part in a collective theater project—or rather, in this case, a choreography project—developed throughout the year, with one weekend per month and a week-long workshop at the TPM, resulting in the creation of a show.
The group therefore explored the creative process behindAUSTERLITZ and gave birth to MONTREUIL, a piece designed with and for them, based on their experience of dance in relation to the history of choreography: Lady Gaga and Loïe Fuller's serpentine dances intersect; Laban notation and Berghain, the legendary techno club in Berlin; Isadora Duncan's wave and the war in Ukraine.
* An adelphe refers to people born to the same parents, regardless of their gender or sex, someone's brother or sister. The term adelphe is equivalent to the English word sibling, used to replace the specific words brother and sister.
Cover photo & photo gallery: ©Nadège Le Lezec