MARSEILLE (F), Les Plus Belles de Mai festival, 2025
Strike ! Red Street Pantone – May 10. 2025
Right in the heart of the old military barracks district, the Busserade street has recently become a landscaped pedestrian street, designed for passers-by and children between the surrounding schools. To the rear of the Caserne du Muy, this axis opens up a breach of life in what was once a closed, private car park. With a monochrome veil that is monumental, compact, elastic, elegant and adventurous, a dancer-architect and a group of performers from the Desires Laboratory organised by Red Plexus (Christine Bouvier + Rochdy Zem) play with the flows, rhythms, scales, history and identity of the site, where working-class, military, judicial and protest memories intermingle. Strike! With the dynamic paintbrush, curtain, carpet, shelter, dress, fold, drape, flag, a nod to Christo, Street Pantone reclaims the plasticity of spaces and invites encounters with inhabiting bodies, right down to the Jo bar, managed by Camille below (“Bar Jo” sounds like barjot which means funny or fool in French), which proclaims its gentle madness, and strikes spirits and heels just as hard.
A Red Plexus and the Mairie du 2-3e (Marseille) production. With the support of the City of Marseille and the Friche Belle de Mai > web.
Musics : In Stiches, The Bad Plus – 524 Hz, Laboreal – Falastini Piano, AKU – Ay Dilber!, Aziza Mustafa Zadeh. Photos : Jean-Claude Sanchis, Gilles Viandier.
MARSEILLE (F), Les Plus Belles de Mai festival, 2025
Strike ! Red Street Pantone – May 10. 2025
Right in the heart of the old military barracks district, the Busserade street has recently become a landscaped pedestrian street, designed for passers-by and children between the surrounding schools. To the rear of the Caserne du Muy, this axis opens up a breach of life in what was once a closed, private car park. With a monochrome veil that is monumental, compact, elastic, elegant and adventurous, a dancer-architect and a group of performers from the Desires Laboratory organised by Red Plexus (Christine Bouvier + Rochdy Zem) play with the flows, rhythms, scales, history and identity of the site, where working-class, military, judicial and protest memories intermingle. Strike! With the dynamic paintbrush, curtain, carpet, shelter, dress, fold, drape, flag, a nod to Christo, Street Pantone reclaims the plasticity of spaces and invites encounters with inhabiting bodies, right down to the Jo bar, managed by Camille below (“Bar Jo” sounds like barjot which means funny or fool in French), which proclaims its gentle madness, and strikes spirits and heels just as hard.
A Red Plexus and the Mairie du 2-3e (Marseille) production. With the support of the City of Marseille and the Friche Belle de Mai > web.
Musics : In Stiches, The Bad Plus – 524 Hz, Laboreal – Falastini Piano, AKU – Ay Dilber!, Aziza Mustafa Zadeh. Photos : Jean-Claude Sanchis, Gilles Viandier.