© Thanh Ha Bui
HURLULA
HURLULA is a choreographic concert of screams. In the form of a trio — voice — performance, percussion, and live feedback — the piece offers a journey through prophetic visions, an emotional pilgrimage into the depths of the human body, and a voyage beneath the Earth's crust.
Through cathartic screams, rumbling drum rolls, and tearing feedback, the body undergoes a metamorphosis, in a dark and burlesque liturgy. An oracle-woman under hallucinations, a fortune teller, a threatening owl in the night, a metal singer with a poorly tuned microphone, a troubadour or a futuristic prophetess, HURLULA screams excess and overflow.
The incandescent space is a tear, a breach, a crack, a wound — it is a vulva-volcano, a body-earth that screams in pain and laughter.
By blending the verbs to scream — a paroxysmal manifestation of the cry — and to hoot, which specifically refers to the night cries of animals, HURLULA aims to be a liberating force breaking the codes of femininity. Intimate, ecstatic, and lunar, it seeks to explode the shackles of beauty, perfection, and propriety.
Credits
A creation by Flora Détraz
Choreography and performance Flora Détraz
Music Miguel Filipe, Claire Mahieux, and Flora Détraz
Percussions Miguel Filipe
Larsens and sound design Claire Mahieux
Scenography design Nadia Lauro
Lighting design Arthur Gueydan
Costume design Flora Détraz and Nadia Lauro
External eye Agnès Potié
Lighting operation Arthur Gueydan or Tatiana Carret
Stage management Tatiana Carret or Cléo Ringeval
Scenography realization Nadia Lauro, Marie Maresca, Nina Michel
Costume realization Chloé Courcelle
Thanks to Théo Aucremanne
Administration & production & distribution (until 2023) Aoza production – Aline Berthou, Charlotte Bayle & Key Performance – Anna Skonecka
Administration & production & distribution (from 2024) Production sensible - Lucie Mollier & Rebecca Dutkiewicz
Production PLI
Partners, co-productions, and residencies Forecast - Skills e.V / Berlin - De; Maison de la Danse / Pôle européen de création and Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2023 - Fr; Atelier de Paris / CDCN - Fr; Charleroi Danse - Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles - Be; PACT-Zollverein, Essen - De; Centre Pompidou & Festival d’Automne in Paris - Fr; LUX Scène nationale de Valence - Fr; Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen Normandie - direction Alban Richard (studio hosting / Ministry of Culture and Communication); Chorège I CDCN Falaise Normandie - Fr; A-CDCN - Fr (Les Hivernales – CDCN d’Avignon, La Manufacture – CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux · La Rochelle, L’échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France, Le Dancing CDCN Dijon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Chorège I CDCN Falaise Normandie, Le Pacifique – CDCN Grenoble – Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes, Touka Danses – CDCN Guyane, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts-de-France, POLE- SUD CDCN / Strasbourg, La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie, La Maison CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne); Réseau R.O.M (Residencies On the Move) at La Balsamine – Brussels, in partnership with Le joli collectif - Be, Fr; Teatro Viriato, Viseu - Pt; O espaço do tempo, Montemor-o-novo – Pt; Alkantara, Lisbon – Pt; MA scène nationale – Pays de Montbéliard - Fr; Montpellier Danse as part of the residency at I'Agora, cité internationale de la danse, with the support of the BNP Paribas Foundation - Fr; Montevideo, Marseille - Fr; GMEM - centre de création musicale, Marseille - Fr; Onda - Office National de Diffusion Artistique as part of the Ecran Vivant program; La Villa Albertine - Residency in New York City, in partnership with the Institut Français; Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers – CDN.
PLI benefits from the support of the DRAC Normandie and the support for structures and artists from the Région Normandie.
Flora Détraz
Flora Détraz is a dancer, a choreographer and a vocalist. She has a ballet background and studied literature and philosophy before following the course at centre chorégraphique national de Rilleux-la-Pape, under Maguy Marin’s direction. She completed her choreographic studies at Forum Dança in Lisbon, where she lived during 9 years. Along her parcours, she had the opportunity to meet with artists such as Meredith Monk, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Vera Mantero, Meg Stuart, Lia Rodrigues, who had inspired her own practice.
Since 2013, under PLI production structure, she develops a choreographic and vocal work, exploring the articulation between visible and invisible and questionning the social precepts, from the body perspective.
PEUPLEMENTS (2013) a choreographic piece for four lyrical singers inspired by a Samuel Beckett’s short-story, reveals an organization of a micro-society in a strictly controlled space. GESÄCHT (2014) is a solo piece that embodies a figure of a scatty diva playing with the performance’s codes. TUTUGURI (2016) is a ventriloquist solo that shows an interior chaos of the body. In MUYTE MAKER (2018), four feminine figures appear like flowering nymphs and plays with contradiction and stereotypical codes of women’s representation. The trio GLOTTIS (2021), inspired by surrealist movies, reveals three big-eyed somnambulists-nocturnal birds, under delirious visions.
As a performer, she has been working with the choreographers Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Laurent Cèbe, Cédric Cherdel, Sara Anjo and Nach.