Azimut - Adelaide Festival

Photo: Agnes Mellon
Azimut
Compagnie 111 –
Aurélien Bory
Fri 27 Feb – Sun 1 Mar
Festival Theatre
Australian Premiere
Exclusive to Adelaide
A piece by Aurélien Bory with
Le Groupe Acrobatique de Tanger
BASS 131 246
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PRESENTING PARTNER
Azimut
Compagnie 111 –
Aurélien Bory
A PIECE BY AURÉLIEN BORY WITH
LE GROUPE ACROBATIQUE DE TANGER
CONCEPTION, SCENOGRAPHY AND DIRECTION
Aurélien Bory
WITH THE ARTISTS OF GROUPE ACROBATIQUE
DE TANGER Mustapha Aït Ouarakmane,
Mohammed Hammich, Amal Hammich,
Yassine Srasi, Achraf Mohammed Châaban,
Adel Châaban, Abdelaziz El Haddad,
Samir Lâaroussi, Younes Yemlahi,
Jamila Abdellaoui
AND THE SINGERS Najib El Maïmouni Idrissi,
Raïs Mohand
CHIEF OF GROUPE ACROBATIQUE DE TANGER
Younes Hammich
DIRECTOR OF GROUPE ACROBATIQUE DE
TANGER Sanae El Kamouni
LIGHT DESIGNER Arno Veyrat
ORIGINAL MUSIC Joan Cambon
SOUND DESIGN Stéphane Ley
COSTUMES Sylvie Marcucci
RESEARCH AND ADAPTATION Taïcir Fadel
TECHNICAL DIRECTION Arno Veyrat
STAGE Mickaël Godbille, Albin Chavignon
LIGHT MANAGER Olivier Dupré
SOUND MANAGER Edouard Heneman
SET CONSTRUCTION Pierre Dequivre and
Atelier La fiancée du pirate
FLY MACHINERY Marc Bizet
PRODUCTION OF THE TOURS
COMPAGNIE - 111 AURÉLIEN BORY
PRODUCTION DIRECTION Florence Meurisse
PRODUCTION ADMINISTRATION Laurent Ballay
PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE Marie Reculon
PRODUCTION OF GROUPE ACROBATIQUE
DE TANGER SCÈNES DU MAROC
PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE Sanae El Kamouni
CO-PRODUCTION Grand Théâtre de Provence
(Aix-en-Provence) Marseille – Provence 2013 –
Capitale européenne de la culture, Compagnie 111 –
Aurélien Bory, Scènes du Maroc, Les Théâtres de la Ville
de Luxembourg, Le Grand T théâtre de Loire-Atlantique
(Nantes), Le Volcan scène nationale du Havre, Théâtre
du Rond-Point (Paris), CIRCa Pôle national des arts du
cirque (Auch, Gers, Midi-Pyrénées), Agora Pôle national
des arts du cirque (Boulazac, Aquitaine), La Filature
scène nationale (Mulhouse)
WITH THE SUPPORT FROM Conseil Général des
Bouches-du-Rhône – Centre départemental de
créations en residence
WITH THE HELP OF L’Usine, scène conventionnée
pour les arts dans l’espace public –Tournefeuille
Toulouse Métropolee
Azimut benefits from the sponsorship of Fondation BNP
Paribas, Assami, Deloitte and Fondation
d’entreprise Deloitte
Scènes du Maroc benefits from the support from
Fondation BNP Paribas, Fondation BMCI and
Institut Français du Maroc
La Compagnie 111 – Aurélien Bory benefits from the
support from Ministère de la culture et de la
communication – Direction Régionale des Affaires
Culturelles de Midi-Pyrénées, Région Midi-Pyrénées,
Ville de Toulouse, Conseil Général de la Haute-Garonne
Aurélien Bory is associated artist of Grand T théâtre de
Loire-Atlantique in Nantes
Aurélien Bory is invited artist of TNT – Théâtre National
de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Aurélien Bory is accompagnied artist of Théâtre de
l’Archipel scène nationale de Perpignan
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THE SONGS IN AZIMUT
Translated from the French by Karine Fages
Song 1
Oh, sweet absent mother
The missing part in me
Is suffering
Song 2
The day has finally come
For you, smoothtalker,
To fight a battle with yourself
Song 3
O dear Saint, forgiveness
I grabbed a pen and some paper
Time doesn’t bear to see me crouched
Song 4
And so goes the world
Remote path to the grey sky
My lamp is blown by time
Song 5
A star leaned on me“Where is your smile?”
Immersing my heart in a past of sorrow
Photo: Algaé Bory
AURÉLIEN BORY
DIRECTOR’S NOTE
Born in 1972, Aurélien Bory is director of
Compagnie 111, founded in 2000 and located
in Toulouse. He develops a ‘physical theatre’
singular and hybrid, a crossbreeding between
different converging fields in the performing
arts (theatre, circus, dance, the visual arts,
music). His shows tour all around the world and
this international notoriety began with Plan B
(2003) and Plus ou moins l’infini (2005), created
in collaboration with Phil Soltanoff. Azimut is
inspired by Moroccan acrobatics, nine years after
Taoub (2004), the show which founded Le Groupe
acrobatique de Tanger. His interest in science
influences his aesthetic. Aurélien Bory’s works
are driven by the question of space and leans on
the scenography. His theatrical work is developed
through ‘the renewal of the form’ and ‘by leaving
room for the audience’s imagination’. In 2008
Aurélien Bory was the recipient of the Créateur
sans frontiers (Creator Without Borders) trophy.
Moroccan acrobats are called ‘the children
of Sidi Ahmed Ou Moussa’. He was an eminent
16th century Sufi thinker, whose grave has
become a pilgrimage shrine. He is regarded
as the Patron Saint of Moroccan acrobatics.
Initially, these acrobatics performances are
not considered as being a part of performing
arts: they are closely related to Sufism, they
emerged from ancient Berber ritual practises
and they consist of circular and pyramidal
stunts, in which I perceive both celestial and
maternal representations.
LE GROUPE ACROBATIQUE DE TANGER
Le Groupe Acrobatique de Tanger was formed
at the initiative of Sanae El Kamouni in 2003.
Her aim was to initiate Tangiers’ acrobats to new
circus routines, based on Morocco’s unique
tradition of acrobatics, with its own special history,
practised to a very high standard by numerous
troupes and families. Convinced that a new
history could be invented with these performers,
she asked director Aurélien Bory to devise the
first contemporary Moroccan acrobatics show in
Tangiers. Taoub was created in June 2004 and has
been a resounding success worldwide ever since,
with more than 300 performances to its credit.
Le Groupe Acrobatique de Tanger then met with
the Swiss directors Martin Zimmermann and
Dimitri de Perrot, who created Chouf Ouchouf for
them in 2009, boosting the group’s fame among
the public and theatres. In 2013, the Groupe
Acrobatique de Tanger worked again with
Aurélien Bory on his new creation Azimut.
In Sufism, an ontological quest, the concept of
the path is essential. Azimut (Azimuth in English)
derives from the Arabic As-samt (Sumùt in
the plural, meaning ‘the paths’). Azimut is the
term used in astronomy to describe the angle
between the observer and the celestial bodies.
With this meaning, the sky is summoned.
In the legend of Sidi Ahmed Ou Moussa, when
the wise man reached the heavens, he looked
back at earth and men, and settled upon going
back. Among others, his path led me to embrace
the return motif as the core of the writing.
I liked the idea of the return to mother-earth, a
return where birth and death are intermingled: by
its very nature, a return used as the compass life.
I like pondering these verses by T.S. Eliot:
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
Aurélien Bory
Image Credit: Algae Bory
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