New Paradigm Opera
ORLANDO
New paradigm opera for seven movements, one voice and one horizon
Performative and immersive installation combining conscious movement, video installation, architecture and live sound/music. Performance, based on Virginia Woolf’s epic novel for an androgynous figure, created in Berlin, Kinshasa, Marfa, London, Varanasi, Lisboa, Chandolin, Patagonia, the North Sea.
2018-2019 - Europe tour
2019-2020 - South America tour
2022-2023 - India tour
Artistic direction, choreography: Julie Beauvais
Artistic direction, film director: Horace Lundd
Music and sounds composition: Christophe Fellay
Set design: Sibylle Kössler, Wynd van der Woude
Created with and moved by: Michael John Harper, Orakle Ngoy, Winsome Brown, Carolyn Cowan, Nyima, Diego Bragà, August Schaltenbrand, Natalia Chami, Valentina Bordenave, Frans W.M. Franssens
Videos editing: Paul Gauthier
Videos color grading: Marjolaine Mispelaere
Technical direction: BadNewsFromTheStars*
Wood engineering: Rémy Meylan, Whood X Mug
Video medias: Des Choses Pareilles
Executive producer in South America: Nati Chami
Executive producer in South Asia: Sandbox Collective, NAF
Production: BadNewsFromTheStars*, Horace Lundd
Coproduction: La Bâtie, Festival de Genève
Associates: LAPIS/EPFL-Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Accélérateur de Particules Strasbourg
Partners: Pro Helvetia-Fondation suisse pour la culture, Pro Helvetia COINCIDENCIA, Pro Helvetia New Delhi, CNC-Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image animée, dispositif DICRéAM aide au développement et aide à la production, Loterie Romande Vaud, Loterie Romande Valais, Canton du Valais, Service de la culture, DRAC-Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Grand Est, aide individuelle à la création, Région Grand Est, soutien à la création du spectacle vivant et des arts visuels, Ville de Genève, département des finances et du logement, HEAR-Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin
THE SOLDIER'S TALE
Immersive opera based on The Soldier's Tale composed by Igor Stravinsky
Libretto by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
2013-2014 - Fondation Pierre Arnaud, Lens CH
Artistic director: Julie Beauvais
Music director: Michael Wendeberg
Films director: Matthew Stone
Live:
Director: Julie Beauvais
Music director: Michael Wendeberg
Music director assistant: Pierre Bleuse
Scenography: Julie Beauvais
Dancer: Louis-Clément Da Costa
Musicians: Maria Ten (violon), Irina-Kalina Goudeva (contrebasse), Carmelo Pecoraro / Michele Danzi (basson), Claude-Alain Barmaz / Yannick Barman(cornet à pistons), Frédéric Bonvin (trombone), John Schmidli (clarinette), Didier Métrailler / Till Lingenberg (percussions)
Stylist and costume: Matthew Josephs, Coralie Chauvin
Activated sculpture for costume: Horace Lundd
Hair styling: Patricia Reuse
Films:
Films director: Matthew Stone
Actress: Servane Ducorps
Director of Photography: David Procter
Dancers: Michael John Harper, Jordan Robson, Louis-Clément Da Costa
Editor: Julia Knight
1st AD: Emma Pounds
Runner: Yasmin Seddon
Steadicam: Richard Lewis
Focus Puller: Adam Feeny
2nd AC: Assistant caméra Michael Kinsella
DIT: Alex Parkinson
Sound operator: Dean Hewiston
Art director Lucie Red
Stylist: Matthew Josephs, Ed Marlor
Make up: Daniel Sallstrom
Hair stylist: Roxanne Attard
Executive producer: Matthew Fone, Riff Raff Films
Producer: Holly Harding
Installation:
Technical director: Antoine Marchon
Video and light designer: Stéphane Gattoni
Sound engineer: Fabian Schild
Installation building team: Zinzoline
Video and light operator: Dorian Nahoun
Sound operator: Antoine Estoppey
Acoustics: Jean-Claude Gaberel
Publication:
Space without fear: The art of Julie Beauvais
Le Diable, la plume et le pinceau
2015 - Edited by Les Amis de Muret, Lens, et les ayant droits.
Espace sans peur, l'art de Julie Beauvais - text by Winsome Brown, photos by Robert Hofer ISBN: 978-2-8399-1727-8
Production: Fondation Pierre Arnaud, Les Amis de Muret
KRÃSIS
Urban opera, Monumental video installation
2013-2014 - Funkhaus Berlin, Festival Scènes Valaisannes Sion, Münsterplatz Bern, La Bâtie-Festival de Genève CH
Direction and choreography: Julie Beauvais
Direction of photography: Brigitte Lustenberger
Conductor of the baroque ensemble: Kerstin Behnke
Advisors: Jean-Philippe Clerc, Brenno Boccadoro
Singers-performers: Sandrine Piau, Kristina Hammarström, Delphine Galou, Lisandro Abadie
Production: BadNewsFromTheStars* & Brigitte Lustenberger
Co-production: La Bâtie-Festival de Genève
Supported by: Pro Helvetia, Loterie romande, Kulturprozent Migros, Canton de Genève, Canton du Valais, Kanton Bern, Ville de Genève, Ville de Sion, Ville de Berne, Burgergemeinde Bern, Commune de Vandoeuvres, Migros Aare, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation
