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​Welcome to a freely inspired performance about champagne, social ecology and contemporary circus.
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"Structures" is a contemporary performance that invites the audience on a walk in a landscape while discovering the world of champagne through an audible soundscape. The walk ends up in a performative landscape where a body is planted and interacts with its surroundings in a lively canvas of contorted movements and wild dance.

The performance is created and inspired by a stay at the Joseph Perrier Champagne House in Châlons-en-Champagne in 2024. Mille spent time with the workers in the vines, in the caves and the final production of the dosage and the corking. Observing and learning brought her behind the curtain of the luxurious and magnificent champagne world.

Mille interviewed many champagne workers and now uses their testimonies in her performances to bring us closer to the reality of the complex world of champagne production, where the core of daily working life is an outstanding balance between man, nature, and technology.

A winery that works actively to preserve healthy soil because they know that by doing so, they will be able to continue growing grapes for many years, but only over 8% of Champagne’s 34,200 surface planted hectares are certified organic. The old tradition and family-run firms have difficulties changing.

Mille goes against the tradition that claims that man today still sees himself as more powerful than nature, and that it's the chemicals that can save us all. In her performance, she points out that this will rather kill nature, thus us all.

Evoked by improvisational processes, Mille relates to the worker's testimony and uses live audio field recordings and music by herself, Johan Segerberg and Jean Jadin, to create imaginative and visual expressions. As a performer, she uses her body as a tool to tell stories. In "Structures," she sets her choreographies as abstract expressions that contrast or fuse with the specific landscape.

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Concept, choreography and performer: Mille Lundt
 
Artistic Advisors: Delphine Lanson, Cille Lansade & Nathalie Blanc
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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 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 for the vine field

A special thank you to all partners and artists from the Hand to Hand project for revision, encouragement, inspiration and feedback.
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​Partners:

Part of the Hand to Hand project (2023-2025)- cofinanced by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union - Le Palc, Pôle national cirque Châlons en Champagne ( FR)  - Bússola (PT) - Helsingør theatre (DK)-  ROOM 100 (HR). 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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