At the Melioris Les Genêts home in Châtillon, which houses fifty people with brain-injured disabilities, the cultural project of the establishment remains a cornerstone. With director and author Hélène Arnaud as artistic director of the house, regular meetings between residents and artists “bring an openness inside and outside the walls which also allows everyone here to be considered as a citizen”, supports Patricia Viaud, coordinator of the educational teams of the medico-social center of this nursing home.
Example with the arrival, from Monday 2 until Friday December 6, 2024, of a trio of artists from the Walden company (La Ronde, Charente-Maritime) in residence for their latest creation expected for spring 2026. Other proof of he opening, Thursday December 5 in the evening (at 8 p.m.), both the people staying here and the general public are invited to a site trip to discover the creative stage of the trio at work this week.
At the heart of the subject, the link
Among the artists, Lucie Malbosc, writing and music, slept there. She greets “all these discussions, and the fact that the meeting is important here, very much on the field of emotion, with people who have a strong presence, which also nourishes the subject”.
“I have been coming here regularly for fifteen years and, in this complicity, there is really something around the meeting that is important, both in our way of working and in this show,” confides the Niortais actress Céline Girardeau, to the game.
Joined here by Marie Morel on technique, here is the third residence for Horsestitle of this show intended to be performed in the meadows and other stables of France and Navarre.
The genesis of Horsesit's how a little girl who ends up in a pony club, because she loves relationships with animals in particular, will face the violence of adults both towards horses… and towards women, by dint of injunctions linked to domination.
Based on the autobiographical experience of Lucie Malbosc, who shares her life at La Ronde with four equine residents, as well as nourished by around ten interviews with women who frequented the equestrian places, the text also evokes the link of more broadly by questioning practice. As for the two horses who will share the poster with the artists, they are also a good excuse to question feminist and anti-speciesist questions in depth.
Public lab of Horsesfirst sketches of the show and meeting with the public, Thursday December 5, 2024, at 8 p.m., at Melioris Les Genêts, 3, avenue de la Fontaine-à-Paul in Châtillon-sur-Thouet. Free entry and participation.
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