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In Performance: Philippe Quesne | Vivarium Studio – Big Bang (Paris, France)

BIG BANG begins with a gigantic explosion. The aftermath: six people who run ashore a small island and rewrite the history of the world in pleasurable episodes. Through elegant tableaux, meaningful gestures and with few words, the protagonists create anatomical studies of a human microcosm, transplanted into an unexpected landscape. The director, Quesne stages the theory of evolution in short, musical scenes, as absurd stories of countless possibilities.

[Concept and Direction] Philippe Quesne
[With] Isabelle Angotti, Rodolphe Auté, Jung-Ae Kim, Émilien Tessier, César Vayssié, Galtan Vourch

BIG BANG is a production of Vivarium Studio. Co-Produktion International Summer Festival Hamburg, La Ménagerie de Verre Paris, Festival d’Avignon, Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou Paris, Kunstencentrum Vooruit Gent, Théâtre de l’Agora Scène nationale d’Evry et de l’Essone, NXTSTP (with support of the EU Culture Programme), Festival Baltoscandal Rakvere, Rotterdamse Schouwburg.

Supported by Région Île-de-France and CENTQUATRE Paris.

The company is supported by DRAC Île-de-France / the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs.

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Caden Manson is a director, media artist, and teacher. He is co-founder of the media ensemble bigartgroup.com and network, blog, and publisher, contemporaryperformance.com. He has co-created, directed, video- and set designed 18 Big Art Group productions. Manson has shown video installations in Austria, Germany, NYC, and Portland; performed PAIN KILLER in Berlin, Singapore and Vietnam; Taught in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Montreal, NYC, and Bern; the ensemble has been co-produced by the Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Hebbel Am Ufer, Rome’s La Vie de Festival, PS122, and Wexner Center for The Arts. Caden is a 2001 Foundation For Contemporary Art Fellow, is a 2002 Pew Fellow and a 2011 MacDowell Fellow. Writing has been published in PAJ, Theater Magazine, and Theater der Zeit. Caden is currently an associate professor and graduate directing option coordinator of The John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama.

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