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"Structures" is a performance that is worked from an immersion residency at the Joseph Perrier Champagne House in France. The project searches for a balance between social ecology in an artisanal sector, it presents testimonies from the workers of Joseph Perrier Champagne House in an outdoor performative landscape of physical expression of bodies, land art, and sound. 

 

Sustainable wines are produced in vineyards that practice water and energy conservation and preserve ecosystems and local wildlife. A vineyard that produces sustainable wine actively encourages and maintains healthy soils because they know that by doing so they will be able to continue growing grapes for years to come.

 

Working with adaptation and plantation, the performance investigates how to create a habitat related to the environment where it takes place. Mille plays with choreographic patterns in which movement adapts to the environment.

 

Circus art like dance uses repetition for learning new skills, just as the manual work in champagne production, Through practice, a conscious skill can shift to the subconscious. Repeating an action until it becomes second nature means we no longer have to think about it and will perform it more at ease and more naturally. Evoked by the improvisation process Mille relates to the vineyard's environment and creates visual and sound imaginative compositions.

 

"Structures" takes place in any outdoor environment or indoor atypical space.

 

The performance questions the boundaries between architecture and landscape versus the human body and opens up new ways of viewing a landscape.

 

Testimonies from champagne workers take us closer to the reality of a complex world where the fine balance between humans, nature, and technology is at the core of daily work and life.

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"Structures" is created with local volunteers who will participate in the creation and performance.

Mille choreographs and establishes the performance in situ for each new site.

"Structures" can also be created and presented as a solo.

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Concept and choreography: Mille Lundt

 

Artistic Advisor: Delphine Lanson & Nathalie Blanc

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Concept and edit of sound landscape & Interviews by: Mille Lundt

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Music by: Johan Segerberg, Jean Jadin & Mille Lundt

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Interviews with staff from The Joseph Perrier Champagne House in France :

Benjamin Fourmon /Director of the House of Champagne Joseph Perrier

Nathalie LaPlaige / Wine cellar chef

Patrick Martin / Earlier responsible chef for the wine fields

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Supported by :

 

 "Hand to Hand" a European cooperation project

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The project brings together 4 European partners, cultural circus and performing art operators : Le Palc, a national circus centre in France, ROOM 100 in Croatia, Bússola in Portugal and Helsingør Theatre in Denmark. 

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More info: https://handtohandproject.eu

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Residencies:

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Metropolis Copenhagen - Performative Landscapes 2020

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Le Palc - Châlons en champagne France 2024

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