 ompagnie Philippe Genty have been presenting inspired and original work that merges visual and physical theatre with dance and puppetry for the last twenty-five years.
Arts Asia Pacific is working with Compagnie Philippe Genty on the 2007 Asian Tour of the company’s most recent work La Fin des Terres (or Land’s End).
La Fin Des Terres / Lands End is the story of a meeting between two people and of its imaginary resonance in the landscape of dreams. It conjures up a series of enigmatic characters, sometimes real, sometimes projected, which will come to reveal secret emotions and hidden histories. On the basis of this poetry, incarnated in animated forms and actor/magicians, which he relentlessly perfects, Philippe Genty continues his captivating and passionate exploration of undiscovered theatrical continents.
Philippe Genty: “As everyone knows reality imitates illusion.
From illusion to reality, the Philippe Genty Company travels through a universe where absurd, derisive, cruel images fit into a method of association without narrative logic, as in a dream.
Images which rediscover old wounds, reawaken first fears, first desires and bear witness to our vertiginous within.
The Company won the Critics’ Prize at the Edinburgh festival for dance, though it isn’t only dance. It is theatre but a theatre without text. A theatre where the actor confronts material objects.
A physical confrontation which seizes and fixes in space man confronted with his own conflicts.
A theatre where man transcends his miserable condition to elevate himself to a dream of infinity."
If you are interested in presenting Compagnie Philippe Genty please contact Torben Brookman on torben@artsap.com For further information regarding Compagnie Philippe Genty can also be found at www.philippegenty.com |
