Agathe chevallier • france sommeil 2025
Immersion residency, workshops and performances by artist Agathe Chevallier at the Théâtre de l'Elysée (Lyon 7)
France sommeil
In 2019, the Pôle Emploi department responsible for monitoring jobseekers' searches will change its name to Dynamisation through accompanying and controling. On 1 January 2024, the agency itself changed its name to France Travail. Faced with these semantic facelifts, what voice and what reality do jobseekers have?
La chambre de compensation
La Chambre de compensation is a performance played at the Théâtre de l'Élysée from 30 October to 1 November 2024, which introduces the France Sommeil project.
In 2019, the Pôle Emploi department responsible for monitoring jobseekers' searches will change its name to Dynamisation through accompanying and controling. On 1 January 2024, the agency itself changed its name to France Travail. Faced with these semantic facelifts, what voice and what reality do jobseekers have?
Initiated by Studio Ganek and the fruit of a collaboration between the Théâtre de l'Élysée, UFCS-FR Formation Insertion, and artist-performer Agathe Chevallier, France Sommeil is a collective creation by a group of people being professionally integrated about their relationship with work.
The project will bring the artist and the public together in a series of workshops combining reflection on our relationship with work and performance. These workshops are organised in three cycles and will culminate in a performance on 12 March 2025, at 19:30 at Théâtre de l’Élysée.
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La chambre de compensation
La Chambre de compensation is a performance played at the Théâtre de l'Élysée from 30 October to 1 November 2024, which introduces the France Sommeil project.
La Chambre de compensation is a 45-minute performance inviting the audience to experience, in a reclining position, a sensory journey through financial movements, to see finance as something other than an intangible phenomenon. In the same spirit as a Feldenkrais session, the sequence is guided live by the voice of a hidden performer, and uses object manipulation and breathing to take the audience into a state of half-sleep listening. Although it does not attempt to explain the financial system, the performance uses mental images to explore the curious similarity between the lexical field of finance and that of the state of the body.
THANKS to the SUBS for hosting the creation (2022).
agathe chevallier
Since 2019, with the Collectif Offense, she has been a performer. First in the collective's laboratories, around departures without return, then with her first creation: Dans mon dessin - Anatomie de transition. She loves performance venues and knows them from the set-up-very-early-in-the-morning to the party-very-late-in-the-evening. She recently became a DJ and party organiser, because she loves creating these ephemeral, grandiose moments. She can't build a cathedral, but she'd like to make one out of foam for an evening.
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Since 2019, with the Collectif Offense, she has been a performer. First in the collective's laboratories, around departures without return, then with her first creation: Dans mon dessin - Anatomie de transition. She loves performance venues and knows them from the set-up-very-early-in-the-morning to the party-very-late-in-the-evening. She recently became a DJ and party organiser, because she loves creating these ephemeral, grandiose moments. She can't build a cathedral, but she'd like to make one out of foam for an evening.
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