Friday, 9th September | 22.45
LA PELANDA | STUDIO 1 | 25′

dance/music

Erwan Keravec / Mickaël Phelippeau

Membre Fantôme

within the frame of SOURCE

national premiere

conception and perfomance Erwan Keravec and Mickaël Phelippeau
production bi-p association et Offshore
co-production SACD, Festival d’Avignon, L’échangeur – CDC Hauts-de-France

Erwan Keravec and Mickaël Phelippeau like to work/interact with their identities, or in any case with an identity—to transform it. The starting point could be this phantom limb, this thing that used to be, that will be subtly referenced or dealt with head-on. Bagpipes, usually the symbol of a particular history and culture, become here an instrument of obsession, of an infinite sound… Similarly, the body of the dancer, going through a traditional vocabulary, would here express a distant recollection. Beyond all that, the meeting of those two artists—who share an inclination for kig ha farz and fest noz—will be for them a challenging way to learn about one another.“To learn means: to watch where one puts one’s fingers, to memorise the keys one pushes like one notices the tracks of an animal one is hunting.” – Peter Szendy

BIOGRAPHY

Erwan Keravec is a bagpipes player with an eclectic background—from traditional duets to free improvisation with Mats Gustafsson or Beñat Achiary, he has composed, played, and improvised for contemporary dance, working with choreographers like Boris Charmatz, Emmanuelle Huynh, or Gaëlle Bourges. He has developed a programme of contemporary music by appealing to composers to create a new music for his instrument. Erwan Keravec is artist-in-residence at the Quartz, national theatre of Brest.

After studying visual arts and dance, Mickaël Phelippeau worked with many choreographers (Mathilde Monnier, Daniel Larrieu, Alain Buffard). Associated with several different structures, he has worked as a choreographer and performer on plays he calls “bi-portraits,” which are so many encounters with another artist, each play bearing the name of his partner on the stage (Jean-Yves, Yves C., Ethan, Lola, Anastasia…).