© © Sara Brunori, Alice Piemme
Rire (to get rid of yourself)
What is there to laugh about? What does laughter bring us back to? Can we talk about ‘social class laughter’? Sara Selma Dolorès - a creature half-clown half-fool of the brussels Night - invites us, for one evening, to free ourselves from the destructive power of the ‘esprit de sérieux’. With outrageousness and irreverence, she pokes fun at social comedies and conventions, telling us that the only possible alternative to the prevailing morosities : be crazy.
Accompanied by Baxter, Olga Kalachnikova and Kimi Amen, she crosses all boundaries - including that between theatre and cabaret. Using transgression as a palliative to morality on all sides, Sara Selma Dolorès takes us to the heart of her questions and contradictions. From intimate reflections to over-the-counter philosophy, this colourful mistress of ceremonies gets in where it hurts, pushing back the boundaries of our normativities. Displaced in our habits, tickled by a wind of celebration, night and metamorphosis, we find ourselves contaminated by self-mockery. What if the world - as we take it so seriously - were more of a farce?
Credits
Conceived, directed and performed by Sara Selma Dolorès
Performers Baxter M. Halter alternating with Jean Biche, Bastien Poncelet aka Kimi Amen and Olga Kalachnikova
Technical direction and set design Nicolas-Adrien Houtteman
Production and distribution Lauréline Bombaert
Dramaturgy Laurent de Sutter, Meryl Moens, Stéphane Olivier
Assistant director Amandine Servranckx
Polymath Pascal Lazarus
Body prosthetics, wigs and make-up Rebecca Flores Martinez
Costumes Bastien Poncelet
Costume assistants Catherine Piqueray and Sylvie Thévenard
Lighting design Rémy Urbain
Sound design Gil Mortio
Buffoonology Cédric Paga (Ludor Citrik)
Illustration and graphism Aurélie Commerce
Acknowledgements/Thanks to Mylène Lauzon, Xavier Bergeron, Jean Biche
Coproductions la Balsamine (Brussels, Be), Le Varia - Théâtre & Studio (Brussels, Be), MARS Mons Arts de la Scène (Mons, Be), le Théâtre de Namur (Namur, Be), Latitude 50 (Marchin, Be), La Coop asbl and Shelter Prod
Supported by Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Domaine du Cirque, de la Rue et des Arts Forains, taxshelter.be, ING and Tax Shelter from the Belgian federal government
Support in residence La Bellone (Brussels, Be), Studio Toast (Brussels, Be), Latitude 50 (Marchin, Be), De Markten (Brussels, Be), Wolubilis (Brussels, Be), Maison Poème (Brussels, Be), Studio du Varia (Brussels, Be) and Ateliers Mommen (Brussels, Be)
Sara Selma Dolorès - Cie Thank you for Coming
Sara Selma Dolorès (delete as appropriate) is another. The subjects she tackles tend to belong to the realm of Night rather than Day, to popular song rather than harmony, to oral traditions rather than the repertoire. Her work takes place in public, non-dedicated spaces, third places, bistros and other trannies cabarets. She is the daughter of her city, Brussels: mongrel and perpetually in crisis.