Alouettes is a piece for a field, performed in the open air. It revisits and builds on the premise of Shared Lanscapes. The audience is invited to sit in front of a field, while wearing headphones. Thanks to these headphones, each member of the audience discovers different ways of seeing and understanding this place: through memories of fields here and elsewhere, the point of view of a European lobbyist dedicated to agricultural and ecological issues, the testimony of a local farmer, or the attentive listening of a bioacoustician. After the performance, there will be an opportunity for informal discussion over fresh local produce, with specialists who are each linked to the field in their own way — whether through technology, their way of thinking about the living world, or their personal history. The field thus becomes both a natural and a cultural space, made up of knowledge, emotions and contradictions, creating possibilities for new forms of alliance.

 
 

Open-air performance, in a field
Approximate length : 1h30, sfollowed by a conversation and degustation

Text and direction Émilie Rousset

Artistic Collaboration Caroline Barneaud

based on conversations with Faustine Bas-Defossez (Director for Nature, Health and Environment at the European Environmental Bureau), Fanny Rybak (lecturer/researcher in ethology and bioacoustics).

With Nadim Ahmed, Aymen Bouchou, Viviane Pavillon, Raphaëlle Rousseau, 1 local farmer & a tractor

Production Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, CDNO - Centre Dramatique National Orléans / Centre Val de Loire

Coproduction in progress