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"The cry interests us for its absence, it is only beautiful insofar as it follows silence". Grand Crié, a queer, anti-virile and deeply pacifist piece, explores its interaction and specificities to inform and illuminate, in the present era, its original force which can sometimes escape those to whom they are addressed. Subversive, demanding, festive, aggressive or fearful, the cry is polyphonic. Nicolas Barry uses all sorts of cries and the cabaret’s popular lip synch to choreograph this poem between silent carnival and chaotic meditation.
Nicolas Barry is a playwright and choreographer born in 1989 in Lille. After studying literature and theater in Paris, he joined ENSATT in Lyon, in the playwriting department. Since 2017, he has been working as a playwright with Julien Fisera (Compagnie Espace Commun). His play La Paix dans le monde won a prize at the Jamais Lu festival and was given a reading at Théâtre-Ouvert in 2021, then selected by the Troisième Bureau reading committee in Grenoble. His new creation Grand Crié premiered at SUBS in November 2022.
Conception, texts and choreographies: Nicolas Barry / Music: Martin Poncet / Lighting design: Lucien Vallé / Booklet texts & dramaturgy: Mathilde Soulheban / Painting: Claude Dhondt / Performance: Sophie Billon, Nangaline Gomis, Julien Meslage / Production: Ensemble facture / Coproduction: Les SUBS – Lieu vivant d’expériences artistiques ; Théâtre de la Ville – Paris / Support for experimentation: RAMDAM - Centre d’art / Experimentation residency: CND Lyon / Supports: DRAC – Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes,as part of project support “Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes SPEDIDAM – Soutiens à la Bande Originale / Aide à la création”.