DOWN – SINGLE VERSION | Dark MatterS
Concept and performance Mélissa Guex
Drums ad performance Clément Grin
Sound designer Charlotte Vuissoz
Costume designer Lucie Meyer
Artistic advisor Bast Hippocrate
Administration and production Amandine Bula
Production Cie Sumo Supports
Théâtre Sévelin 36 – Lausanne, Go Go Go – Le Grütli – Centre d production et de diffusion des Arts vivants – Genève, Supernova Rimini, Santarcangelo Festival, Venere in Teatro et New Echo System – Venezia, Festival Les Rencontre à l’Echelle – Marseille, Les SUBS – Lyon, JUNE EVENTS, festival de l’Atelier de Paris / CDCN
Support for touring CORODIS, Pro Helvetia
A moment of descent after ecstasy, a wave of depression, the sensation of the body letting go, the spirit breaking away: this is the down. Mélissa Guex experiences the rhythm of descent, then the music of ascent, the body freezing or following a drumbeat of emotions, to create an explosive performance as an attempt to respond to the collective down.
Conceived as a modular in situ format, Down – single version evolves, transforms and takes root in each territory explored, feeding off past journeys and nurturing future ones.
Mélissa Guex is a dancer, choreographer and performer. After her studies, she became an associate artist of Théâtre Sévelin and created the SUMO company in Lausanne. She collaborates and participates in different creations and artistic worlds with, among others, Géraldine Chollet, Augustin Rebetez and Anna Marija Adomaityte. With her company, Mélissa Guex and her team develop work based on an elaborate aesthetic, not without darkness.
Clément Grin is a drummer and composer with a master’s degree in performance/composition from the Haute Ecole de Jazz in Lausanne, where he studied with CyrilRegamey and Emil Spanyi. He is a member of Meimuna, Hold, Monument, Duo Sonore, Gr’Ørch, Bart Plugers Blossom and Blasphemy and plays regularly for other projects. He has performed at Jazz Onze+ Festival, Docks, Jazzwerkstatt, Cully JazzFestival, Bee-Flat, and Moods. In the summer of 2016, Clément Grin founded the Collectif du Présent, which brings together artists from the Canton of Vaud.
