Mirlitons,
it is a kind of flute for children,
it’s a doggerel,
it’s a Louis d’or coin marked with the value 2,
it’s a military headgear,
and it is also a pastry (a cream roll).

Aymeric Hainaux draws, writes poetry, human beatbox is his most powerful practice because it is immediate, simple and radical.
François Chaignaud’s creations are based on encounters that hybridise practices : singing, medieval or baroque musical repertoire, urban dance and sacred arts. The result is Mirlitons, a mischievous space for listening and challenging.

” The scene is an arena. Two masked bodies, martial, unrecognizable, humble, and rattling. Microphones, loudspeakers, risers, bells, shoes. A ritual of presentations, a confrontation, a knot, a denouement. A total saturation of frequencies and muscles: a therapy through excess. Bodies and sounds torn between the melancholy of vanished rituals and the aggressiveness of actuality. Lips and heels in search of a forgotten code. A gracious and enduring duel of beatbox and percussions: a wall, a halo, an ancient world lost in the face of toxic perspiration, buried in the two fighters.”
François Chaignaud, november 2022

CREDITS

Premieres from October 11th to 14th and from October 20th to 22th 2023 at the MC93 during the Festival d’Automne à Paris

conception and interpretation Aymeric Hainaux & François Chaignaud
artistic collaboration Sarah Chaumette
costumes design Sari Brunel
light conception Marinette Buchy
technical manager Marinette Buchy, Anthony Merlaud
sound operator Jean Louis Waflart, Patrick Faubert, Aude Besnard
production, national distribution Mandorle productions (Chloé Perol, Jeanne Lefèvre, Emma Forster)
international distribution APROPIC–Line Rousseau–Marion Gauvent

production Mandorle productions
Mandorle productions is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture (DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) and the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
François Chaignaud is an associate artist at Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse in Paris as well as the Maison de la danse and the Biennale de la danse de Lyon.

coproductions
MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Charleroi danse, centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles (BE), Maison de la Danse, Lyon – Pôle européen de création, Festival Next (FR / BE), Theater Rotterdam (NL), Triennale di Milano (IT), KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen Hannover (DE), Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy

supports
Espace Pasolini/Laboratoire artistique Valenciennes, La Villette, Paris – Initiatives d’Artistes, Malraux, scène nationale de Chambéry Savoie, Les Aires – Théâtre de Die et du Diois, scènes conventionnées, d’intérêt national – « Art en territoire »

special thanks
Balakumar, Edouard Prabhu, Prune Becheau

Photo: Martin Argyroglo

For more information, press map, financial and technical conditions please contact Line Rousseau or Marion Gauvent