WET SONGS
Nina Santes, 2024
Wet Songs is an experimental musical comedy for five performers from different artistic fields – dance, music, spoken word and opera – that invokes and celebrates the element of liquid.
Like an act of resistance to the drying up of affects and the ambient hermeticism, the piece delves into space, bodies and memories, in search of what emerges, flows, wets, gushes, overflows, leaks, transpires, transgresses, dissolves… from the cracks and fissures.
Exhausted by the dominant narratives and the scorching climate, a group of individuals gather around a strange kitchen, from which they conjure up tides of words, gestures and sounds, through listening, vibration, rhythm and repetition. The piece, structured in song, draws on the musical comedy genre to form a non-linear narrative of liquid worlds.
| 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 |
| 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, Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble (in the frame of the residency ”accueil studio” 2025) (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 |
| CALENDAR | Public performances |
|---|---|
| 10-11 October 2025 | Premieres – Festival Excentriques – CDCN La Briqueterie |
| 20-21 September 2025 | CDCN Dancing – extérieur |
| 7 dec 24 | CHANSONS MOUILLÉES, solo performance around WET SONGS, Festival Le Grand HUIT, Nantes, Fr |
| 15 nov 24 | Presentation of the work-in-progress, Charleroi-Danse, Brussels, Belgium |
| 12 oct 24 | Performance and end of association, CCNO, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans |
| 4 July | Presentation of the work-in-progress for professionals, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris |
| 14 apr 24 | Wet Songs, practice sharing, CCNO, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans |
| 14-16 mar 24 | Wet Songs, practice sharing, El Caldo Festival, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 6 mar 24 | Wet Songs, practice sharing, Manège de Reims |
| 02 dec 24 | Wet Songs, practice sharing, Manège de Reims |
| 04 nov 23 | Wet Songs, practice sharing, CCNO, Orléans |
| CALENDAR | Residencies |
|---|---|
| 8-13 september 2025 | CDCN La Briqueterie |
| 2-7 june 2025 | Writing residency, CDCN La Briqueterie |
| 12-17 may 2025 | CCN2 Grenoble |
| 13-18 Jan 25 | Libre Usine, Lieu Unique, Nantes |
| 24 nov – 06 dec 24 | Writing Residency, Honolulu and Maison trouble, Nantes, Fr. |
| 12-19 nov 24 | Charleroi-Danse, Brussels, Belgium. |
| 07-18 oct 24 | CCNO, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans |
| 23-27 sept 24 | Writing residency |
| 01-5 july 24 | Le Carreau du Temple, Paris |
| 27-29 june | Writing residency, CND, Paris |
| 14-21 apr 24 | Fondation Royaumont |
| 26 feb – 6 mar 24 | Manège de Reims |
| 16-19 janv 24 | La Libre Usine, Lieu Unique – Nantes |
| 27 nov – 02 dec 24 | Manège de Reims |
| 23 oct – 04 nov 23 | Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans |
