CREATION 2025
ELEPHANT MEMORIES
Art Zoyd Studios
Mémoires d'éléphant (Elephant Memories ) is a sixty-minute stage production, set up as a report on the Wallers Arenberg mining site.
Il mixes Jean Michel Espitallier's text with the words of miners, broadcast on stage via recorded voices.
A video by Victor Villafagne showing the different vertiginous spaces will be projected in the background. In the center, two musicians will perform music by Kasper T. Toeplitz.
Mémoires d'éléphant aims to piece together the jigsaw puzzle of the site's history and the different layers of memories that coexist: from the words of the miners still alive, to the archive specialists, to the inhabitants, sons or daughters of miners.
The show will also be built around the physical traces of the site, such as the former sets of Berry's Germinal, or the actual presence of a digital hub with Créative Mine.
Créative Mine A gigantic and remarkable pole with its three headframes is also home to film sets and an abundance of digital activity that contrasts with and enhances its history.
Also enthroned on the site is a huge abandoned Elephant, lost and somewhat decrepit, which will serve as a symbolic storyteller of the site's different lives.
Kasper T. Toeplitz musical composition
Victor Villafagne video production
Jean-Michel Espitallier text and dramaturgy
Musicien-ne-s Eugénie Defraigne (Cello), Didier Casamitjana (Percussion)
Lighting design and technical production management
ZakariyyaCammoun stage management
Production
Art Zoyd Studios in co-production with the Communauté d'Agglomération de La Porte du Hainaut, with support from the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles and the Région Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes Métropole and La Ville de Valenciennes.
With support from Arenberg Creative Mine.
Available on tour - Contact production / diffusion
ART ZOYD STUDIOS
Monique Hourbette-Vialadieu
artzoyd@wanadoo.fr
+ 33 (0)6 10 80 68 60
Floriane Legal, Production Administrator
fl.artzoyd@orange.fr
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