Photos © Elsa Laurent

THE HANDMAKING OF THE WORLD
by GEORGES APERGHIS

Solo for percussion table
Duration: 40′ – from 7 years old

Do almost everything with almost nothing. In this burlesque and melancholic creation, a percussionist-actor has only a table – but not just any table – to perform the work of composer Georges Aperghis. It is up to him to find all the means to produce sounds… In this intimate and light theatre, everyday gestures become artistic expression and reveal the salt of the ordinary… in all simplicity!

A return to his roots for Georges Aperghis, who from the mid-1970s onwards developed an approach to musical writing and theatricality based on its foundations: bodies, gestures, sounds that are at first insignificant, the slightest syllable…

The percussionist
Richard Dubelski manipulates the various mechanisms of a percussion table, encouraging a shift between gesture and sound. He waits for something, or is distracted by details. Sometimes an experimenter, sometimes a sorcerer’s apprentice, he creates very simple and often comical situations. He finds various ways of producing sounds to execute his work.

The sound table
Placed in everyday spaces, the percussive table breaks down traditional performance spaces. Designed by Nina Bonardi, the table includes accessories that sometimes have unpredictable reactions. The field of action is limited to a single object in this musical theatre, and yet a world is created step by step before the eyes of the small audience.

A theatre of the intimate
This intimate and light theatre is a return to his roots for Georges Aperghis, who from the mid-1970s onwards developed an approach to musical writing and theatricality based on the basics: bodies, gestures, sounds that are at first sight anodyne, the slightest syllable… A poetry is born of simplicity, and – why not – of a little magic, while at the same time having a comic dimension.

PRESSE

► Artpress – 29/09/2022 : Entretien d’Emmanuel Daydé avec Georges Aperghis
“Oui, j’ai eu envie de retomber en enfance. Je voudrais communiquer au public la liberté de jouer avec tout, la technologie comme l’artisanat – et même le dessin animé, que j’entreprends avec ma petite fille. La Construction du monde, c’est une table truquée que malmène dans tous les sens le percussionniste, marionnettiste et comédien Richard Dubelski. Son champ d’action est limité à cette unique table, qui renferme quantité d’objets – comme des toupies – avec lesquels il peut jouer et, au besoin, se battre.”

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