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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 search 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 practise water and energy conservation, 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 close to the soil, the performance goes close to different soils and investigates how to create a habitat related to the soil or ground. Mille play's with the intention to visually and physical plant people in the soil and shows through choreographically patterns matters of adaptation and movement.

 

Circus art as dance uses repetition for learning new skills, just as the manual work in the 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 natural. 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, a field, the sea, a wasteland, an old factory. The performance questions the boundaries between soil and the human body and opens up for other ways of inhabiting a landscape. Testimonies from champagne workers takes us closer to a reality of a complex world where the fine balance between human, nature and technology is at the core of the daily work and life.

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For each performance Mille will collaborate with new volunteers that will perform with her in the performance, all volunteers should have a background in a physical sector such as dance, circus or martial arts or other. Mille choreograph and create the performance In-Situ for each new landscape.

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Concept and choreography: Mille Lundt

 

Artistic Advisor: Delphine Lanson

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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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