Venue: Atalante
Time: 4 October 16.00
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A physical theatre piece that shows the poetic, aesthetic, and humorous dimensions that exist beyond our current depictions and expectations of aging.

2025 marked the 50th jubilee of Claire Heggen’s research and artistry on the theatricality of the body in movement. On this special occasion, Claire Heggen created a piece that deals with the intricate body of an elderly person. Through three variations on the theme of aging she approaches the poetic, aesthetic, and humorous dimensions that exist beyond our current depictions and expectations of aging.

Personal direct quote from the artistic director about the work and its place in the company’s repertoire.
Forty years ago, Claire Heggen created the solo Im/mobile using a puppet version of herself, her older double.
The desire came to her to return to this puppet, thus completing a 40-year trajectory. This time, we are identical, the puppet and I. We joined in age, at a time when the time for taking stock and growing old begins.

Today, she uses it again to explore her own aging process,
and to confront her personal feelings with social, moral and political conventions in this
age of planned obsolescence.

Who is the double of the other?
Who is this woman in front of her?
Who is this creature she won’t recognize as herself?
Who is this woman who attracts her, amazes her, questions her and who might make her afraid?

The double bias allows one to confront oneself, one’s age, and the social and political conventions surrounding this age of planned obsolescence…

CREDITS:
Directing, dramaturgy, gestural writing and interpretation: Claire Heggen
Outside views, privileged witnesses: Jean-Claude Cotillard – Elsa Marquet-Lienhart
Knowing glances: Pauline Thimonnier – Carine Gualdaroni
Puppet constructors: Alma Roccella – Ninon Larroque – Arnaud Louski-Pane
Costume(s) designe: Jean-Jacques Delmotte – Marion Robillard
Lighting designe: Carine Gérard
Song composer: Eléonore Bovon

Support from: the Val-de-Marne Departmental Council through the 2024 Creation Support program

Co-productions: Théâtre Antoine Vitez – Scène d’Ivry
L’Odyssée, Scène Conventionnée d’Intérêt National de Périgueux. National Theatre Center of Normandie-Rouen
Espace Jéliote, National Puppet Center à Oloron Sainte-Marie

With the assistance of
La Nef
Le Mouffetard, National Puppet Center
Le Tas de Sable – Ches Panses Vertes, National Puppet Center
MAPA – Moving Academy for Performing Art
La Ferme de Trielle
Nicole Pinaud-Blum and Marc Blum

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2025 firade Claire Heggen 50 år som konstnär – ett konstnärskap fokuserat på att utforska teatraliteten av kroppen i rörelse. Ur detta jubileum skapade Claire Heggen ett verk som skildrar den intrikata kroppen hos den åldrande människan. Genom tre variationer på temat åldrande utforskar hon de poetiska, estetiska och humoristiska dimensionerna som ligger bortom våra föreställningar och förväntningar av vad åldrande kan vara.

Claire Heggen co-founded and co-directed of Théâtre du Mouvement with Yves Marc from 1975 to 2017. Since 2018, Claire Heggen has created the Claire Heggen – Théâtre du Mouvement Company, based in Ivry-sur-Seine, in the Île-de-France region. Artistic director., her purpose and design of contemporary mime and, more broadly, of an art of the actor, is based on the concept of a theatricality of movement and on gestuality. It establishes itself bordering dramatic dancing, object theatre and text theatre in which the body is engaged. She places the actor’s body at the very center of artistic creation. Since the beginning of her career, she’ve been invited to teach performing artists, in France and abroad, in twenty different countries. She produced well over thirty different
stage productions, played in 60 countries, developing an ever-evolving aesthetic. She is also tutor and support young emerging artists in their performance project.

Website: https://claireheggen.theatredumouvement.fr
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/claireheggentheatredumouvement