© Elodie Le Gall, Romain Houitte
Fort réconfort
You enter the Fort at nap time. Welcomed by a human-Fern duo, you find your bearings. At the entrance, you drop off the sadness, the anger, the anguish or the numbness as you remove your coat. Or you keep them with you, as companions.
First, you walk around to sniff the proposition. Then, you choose a station, as a start. There is plenty of time to browse around all of them. Or to settle in. Maybe, you sit at the kitchen table to make an apple pie. Or maybe, you lie down in a hammock to read a letter addressed to the future. In a corner, you exchange some ice-breakers. You learn a song. You unfold questions.
Fort réconfort (Fort comfort) invites you to an immersive performance, deployed over an afternoon. Connected to participative research around eco-anxiety, the performance is conceived as a solace ritual.
Credits
Conception Lorette Moreau
Collaborations Greta, Amel Benaissa, Justine Bougerol, Cédric Coomans, Anna Czapski, Céline Estenne, Aurore Magnier, Noémie Nicolas, Noémie Touly & Lucie Chauvin-Philippson
Production Célestine Dahan / L’amicale
In partnership with la Wander structure asbl.
Residencies and support CC De Grote Post (Ostende, BE), Le Corridor (Liège, BE), le Service Provincial des Arts de la Scène asbl / La Fabrique de Théâtre (Frameries, BE), La Chartreuse (Villeneuve-Lez-Avignon, FR), La Bellone (Brussels, BE), Bain Public (Saint-Nazaire, FR), La Serre Arts Vivants (Montréal, CA), Canopéa – L’environnement en réseau (Namur, BE), Le CCN / Centre culturel de Namur (Namur, BE), Sur Mars (Mons, BE), La Verrière (Bruxelles, BE).
Coproduction La Balsamine (Brussels, BE), Scène Nationale Carré-Colonnes (Bordeaux Métropole, FR), Théâtre l’Aire Libre (St-Jacques-de-la-Lande, FR) / le joli collectif, Théâtre de Poche - Scène de territoire pour le théâtre Bretagne romantique & Val d’Ille- Aubigné (Hédé-Bazouges, FR) / le joli collectif.
With the help of la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service du Théâtre (bourse de recherche), le Comité Mixte Chartreuse / Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Wallonie- Bruxelles Théâtre / Danse) & Kunstenpunt, Wallonie Bruxelles International (Bourse de résidence à l’international), la région Hauts-de-France (dispositif EXPE 2.0) et la SACD. Fort réconfort est soutenu dans le cadre du réseau R.O.M (Residencies On the Move) financé par l’Union Européenne – Creative Europe.
Ongoing partnerships Théâtre de Liège (BE), Maison de la Culture de Tournai (BE), Le Citron Jaune CNAREP (FR), La Vénerie (BE).
Lorette Moreau
Lorette Moreau is a theatermaker, member of L'amicale (an art cooperative active in Lille, Brussels and Paris) and co-founder of Wander Structure (a transdisciplinary support and research platform carried by 8 female artists based in Brussels).
She is a multi-faceted artist, mostly working as a theatre director, but also as a ping pong partner (or artistic collaborator) on projects developed by other artists (Elles Vivent by Antoine Defoort and Ami·e·s il faut faire une pause by Julien Fournet amongst others). She teaches at ARTS² (an art school in Mons) and regularly organises workshops around collaborative artistic practices & spectatorship. She’s passionate about methodology and loves everything meta.
Her first show, Cataclop enzovoorts, was created in La Balsamine (Brussels) in 2016. She created ({:}) at Festival Emulation (Théâtre de Liège) in 2019. In 2021, she presented We're going to build an island and grow palm trees with Axel Cornil at Théâtre de la Vie, Brussels. Her new work, Fort comfort is a participative project developed since 2020 as a work in progress.