Projects selected by the jury
Discover the 5 projects selected by the jury members for the SVSN Award:
Join us in Avignon on July 7 and 8 for the artists’ pitch and the award ceremony for the winning team!
BRÛLE, Muriel Carpentier | Abysses Compagnie
Traveling through the black desert where there are no more colors, Brûle, half-human, half-animal, is in search of his identity and a source of life… “BRÛLE” is a hybrid show that tells the story of a monster in search of his identity and a source of life. It develops a multiple narrative that allows spectators to understand the story through all their senses. This original sensory experience draws on a variety of media, including animated images constructed in real time, live drawing, manipulation of objects and masks, a lively scenography, an original poetic text, dance, song and a multi-broadcast sound universe. This combination of different arts and techniques is at the very heart of the project, and combines digital and plastic processing to produce illusions in a posture of immersion, in the story and the set that is being constructed in real time.
Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne – CDN / Les SUBS, Lyon / festival Mars à l’0uest ( Marionnette en Seine) / Château Éphémère – fabrique sonore et numérique, Carrières-sous-Poissy / La Folie Numérique by Fées d’hiver / CCAS de Super-Besse / CCAS de Savines-le-Lac / CCAS nationale / Maison Jacques Copeau, Pernand-Vergelesses / Théâtre de Beaune / La Transverse / Les Lunes Artiques / AADN / “Fond d’Aide à la Création en Environnement Numérique, Interactive et Immersive” Auvergne Rhône Alpes region (writing section) / Théâtre de Chaoué
Sleep for Earth, Frédéric Deslias | Le Clair Obscur
To allow the Earth to regenerate, humanity would have to pause for 200 years.
OCH imagines an audacious UN program – both radical and pragmatic – which, based on recent scientific advances, would propose that humanity temporarily suspend its hold on the limited resources of our ecosystem. At the heart of this project: the stasis cocoon. Sleep to save energy: a soothing ecological gesture, a form of protective renunciation, or perhaps a subversive act against consumerist logic by putting all activity on hold…
Sleep for Earth is more than just a show: it’s a large-scale program, designed to run for several years. Its multiple ambitions reflect those of a genuine political and humanitarian project.
Carried by the SĮ concept, it aims to convince humanity to enter collective sleep.
The program can be adopted by a variety of international structures, networks and institutions, and can take many complementary artistic forms.
Frédéric DESLIAS – Conception / direction / mise en son
LI-CAM – Autrice
Patrice MUGNIER – Création 3D et VR
Angie PICT – Actrice et Collaboratrice artistique
Simon DUPETY – Designer
Paul-Emile SKLER – Production
Lucas SURREL – Diffusion
Harmony SUARD – EAC
Production: Le Clair Obscur, Active Creative Design
Co-productions and partners: CNC – aide à la création immersive, Le Cube(Garges), Les Gémeaux – Scène Nationale, SNat61, Région Normandie, Département du Calvados, Ville de Caen, La Villette – MicroFolies.
Portrait – Geoffroy Menabrea
VIBH20, Corinne Linder | Fheel Concepts
At the edge of the void, the Northern Hemisphere meets the Southern Hemisphere, embodied by two women exploring their circus bodies in a vertical space. To the rhythm of a musician’s voice, they face the reflection of the water, their first mirror – a metaphor for their lived realities, their dreams and their cultural differences.
This is the story of a meeting between two hemispheres trying to communicate despite the gravity that pulls them in opposite directions. In a pendulum-like movement, they discuss how water – the molecule that circulates in our bodies and in rivers – influences their relationship to the world.
Thanks to an interactive device, the audience’s collective emotions are captured in real time by physiological sensors, influencing the light, sound and rhythm of the show. In this way, the audience becomes a real actor in the experience.
Conception and artistic direction:
Corinne Linder – Project carrier, director, choreographer and circus artist
Video creation and technological co-direction:
Adrien Mondot – Digital artist and juggler, specialist in interactive visual writing
Technological direction:
Dimitri Sourzac – Senior technologist in digital arts (VR, special effects, augmented reality)
Scientific supervision:
Léa Dedola – PhD student in Arts and Cinema, specializing in immersive creation and emotional biometrics
Circus distribution
Viivi Roiha – Aerial circus artist
Katja Andersen – Circus artist, actress and singer
2nd artist under recruitment – Aerial circus & creative technologist
Technical and creative team
Margot Falletty – Lighting designer & stage manager
Paul Fresnel (Paul Rêve) – Sound designer & live performer
Charlotte Comte – Sound designer, sound engineer
Jérémie Chevalier – Scenographer
Outside view
Amaury La Burthe – Digital artist, expert in immersive creations (Unrest VR, Notes on Blindness, Type:Rider)
Administration & production
Fheel Concepts – Production
Confirmed support:
CNC – Aide à la préproduction
Odyssart (Office Franco-Québécois pour la Jeunesse) – Financing of the digital R&D phase (software VIB.E-MOTION software), in partnership with SAT (Société des Arts Technologiques, Montreal)
Archaos – Pôle National Cirque
La Verrerie d’Alès – Pôle National Cirque Occitanie
Le Quai des Savoirs – Partenaire art & science
Les Gémeaux – Scène Nationale de Sceaux
Théâtre Paris-Porte-de-Clichy (PPCM) – Partenaire coproducteur
Le Cube – Garges – Lieu de résidence et soutien à la création
Equipment sponsorship : POLAR – Supply of biometric sensors (wristbands)
The Transitions Pieces: Chant I,
Gérald Arev Kurdian (aka Hot Bodies)
The Transition Pieces is the culmination of a decade of work around music, performance and personal transformation.
With this project, and now under the name of Hot Bodies, I am embarking on a new cycle of musical composition, pop and experimental, which questions the fluidity of identities, genders and bodies, as well as the mutations of contemporary civilizations, through the prism of my own hormonal transition.
Its first part is called Chant I (Déesses-fleuves, metaverse et nymphes des hormones) : It’s a suite of electronic music pieces for human voices, synthesized voices, piano, bass, violin, synthesizers and vocal processors, like the sound diary of a body in transition grappling with a world in constant upheaval.
The Transition Pieces: Song I (River goddesses, metaverse and nymphs of the
hormones)
By: Hot Bodies aka Gérald Arev Kurdian
Company: Hot Bodies of The Future
DISTRIBUTION
Musical composition and arrangements, lyrics, AI, interpretation
Hot Bodies aka Gérald Arev Kurdian
Interpretation (trio form)
Jeanne Paris
Sébastien Richelieu
Musical Collaboration
Alexis Degrenier
Regard Chorégraphique
Marcela Santander Corvalàn
Sound engineering
Justine Herbert
Lighting design
Alexi-a Alexi
Scenography
Caroline Oriot
Costume Design & Make Up
Margaux Freret
Administration and production
Alexandre Saraiva
Support
The Transition Pieces: Chant I is supported by the Ministère de la Culture / DRAC
Île-de-France
Coproductions
Ballet National de Marseille (fr)
Coopérative de Mai, Clermont-Ferrand (fr)
File7, Magny-le-Hongre (fr)
MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine (fr)
Liveworks / Centrale Fies, Dro (it)
Tanzfabrik, Berlin (de)
Partners
Cité Musicale – BAM, Metz (fr)
Festival de la Cité, Lausanne (ch)
Kaaitheater, Bruxelles (be)
Nationaltheater, Mannheim (de)
La Becque, La Tour de Peilz (ch)
Château Ephémère, Carrières-sous-Poissy (fr)
Les Laboratoires, Aubervilliers (fr)
Glassbox, Paris (fr)
Garage29, Bruxelles (be)
La Bellone, Bruxelles (be)
DOC, Paris (fr)
LIVRÉ POUR VOUS, stories about women’s bodies,
Cécile Morelle | Compagnie Le Compost
“LIVRÉ POUR VOUS, récits de corps féminins” explores the transformations of the female body through the testimonies of women of different backgrounds and ages. Two performers, a deaf actress and a hearing actress, explore the power of image and digital technology in the construction of identity. Using the tools of real-time video and motion capture, they embody a diary of a multi-faceted body. Designed, among other things, for a teenage audience, this playful staging allows them to discover, with poetry and humor, the relationship we have with our first homes: our bodies.
Cast:
By Cécile Morelle
Stage direction: Cécile Morelle & Edouard Peurichard
With Julia Pelhate and Zelda Perez
Translation of text into LSF: Julia Pelhate
Lyrics collectors: Renata Antonante, Chloé Duong, Cécile Morelle, Zelda Perez
Sound design : Jehanne Cretin-Maitenaz
Video creation: Edouard Peurichard
Image creation: Philippine Brenac
Costume design: Morgane Liébard
Production administration: Justine Trichot
Distribution: Sarah Moulin
(in progress)
Production credits :
Production: Compagnie Le Compost
Coproductions: Cal du Clermontois (60) ; La Villette, Paris (75) ; La Maison de la Culture et des Loisirs, Gauchy (02) ; Le Centre Culturel François Mitterrand, Tergnier (02) ; le Théâtre du Chevalet, Noyon (60) ; La Scène Europe, Saint-Quentin (02) ; La Manekine, Pont Sainte Maxence (60), Festival Fragments (Paris) with Les Plateaux sauvages, Paris (75) ; La Chambre d’eau, Le Favril (59) ; La Cave aux poètes, Roubaix (59).
Supporters: La Faïencerie, Creil (60), le Théâtre Massenet, Lille (59) ; Le Safran, Amiens (80) ; Trinoma, motion capture and analysis (48), La Région Hauts-de-France as part of the long term residency program (PRAC) ; le département de l’Aisne
As of 2025, Le Compost receives support from the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles des Hauts-de-France – Ministère de la Culture (conventionnée avec la DRAC Hauts-de-France).
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