WET SONGS
Nina Santes, 2024
Wet Songs is an experimental musical for five performers coming from different artistic backgrounds – dance, music, spoken word and opera. Steeped in radical science-fiction, the « Wet Songs » emerge from a time of great climatic and emotional drought. What has been plundered from us and what has dried us up? What potions can we use to remedy the situation? What dances and songs will we use to stop the anaesthetic
break the barriers, re-irrigate the affects, bring tears to the eyes, let a laughter out, making mouths water?
Wet Songs imagines the invention of a hydro-community in search of gestures, sounds and words to dissolve borders and binaries, to make way for more fluid becomings… Exhausted by stories of extraction and separation, the members of the community gather around a strange kitchen, mixing stories, moods, eras and aesthetics in the manner of mash-ups, tides or alchemy. Their fictional bodies create an art of the hybrid in the same way that remedies are made.
| CALENDAR | Residencies/Public performances |
|---|---|
| 23 oct – 04 nov 23 | Research and development residency, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans |
| 27 nov – 02 dec 24 | Research and development residency, Manège de Reims |
| 26 feb – 6 mar 24 | Creative residency, Manège de Reims (public opening on 6th March) |
| 14-21 apr 24 | Creative residency, Fondation Royaumont |
| 01-6 July 24 | Creative residency, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris |
| 08-18 Oct 24 | Creative residency, CCNO, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans |
| 04-15 nov 24 | Creative residency, Charleroi-Danse, Belgium |
| 24 nov – 06 dec 2024 | Writing Residency, Honolulu and Maison trouble, Nantes |
| 13-18 Jan 25 | Creative residency, Libre Usine, Lieu Unique, Nantes |
| February 2025 | Preview – Festival Parallèle, Marseille (under discussion) |
| Feb-March 25 | Creative residency ( 10 days- venues in progress) |
| May 25 | Creative residency, CDCN La Briquetterie – 10 days |
| September 2025 | Premieres – Festival Excentriques – CDCN La Briqueterie. |
| CREDITS | |
|---|---|
| Conception and choregraphy | Nina Santes |
| Creation and performance | Dalila Khatir (singing and danse), Wol (singing, trumpet, beatbox), Sati Veyrunes (singing and danse), Makeda Monnet (lyrical song, harp, danse), Silex Silence (spoken word and danse) |
| Light creation | Louise Rustan |
| Sound creation | Aria de la Celle |
| Accessories | Charlotte Gautier Van Tour |
| Eco-conception coaching | Annie Leuridan |
| Technical Coordination | Steven Le Corre |
| Administration, production, development | Barbara Coffy, Tiphanie Chauvin |
| Production | La Fronde |
| Coproductions | Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans – CCNO, Le Manège, scène nationale-Reims, Charleroi Danse – Bruxelles, Tremplin ARVIVA – Sustainable initiatives for performing arts, Carreau du Temple, Lieu Unique in the frame of Libre Usine, La Briqueterie CDCN (confirmed) |
| The project is a winner of the Tremplins ARVIVA encouraging sustainable initiatives in the performing arts, and is supported by the Mécénat de la Caisse des Dépôts. | |
| Nina Santes benefits from the Associate Artist programme set up by the Ministry of Culture, at the Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans from 2021 to 2023 | |
| Nina Santes and La Fronde are also associated artist with the Manège – Scène nationale de Reims, from September 2021 to June 2024 |
