Spongebabe in L.A.
4 love & anxiety
Pay what you can
Spongebabe in L.A. (4 love & anxiety) is a self-portrait that mixes fiction and reality in the chimerical form of a concert, a dance performance, and a behind-the-scenes. During the rehearsals for a concert, alternating between songs, intimate and/or political addresses to the audience and choreographic interludes, a singer leads the fiction, tackling the theme of mutation, those moments in life when we have no other choice but to metamorphose.
I have the impression that in the last few years I have metamorphosed from a big motorbike into an empty shell, a two-hour-old mouse lying on the pavement, a membrane of a living creative you don’t want to mess with, a knight in crystal armour, a heart stapled all over the place, a fresh wind, a computer doing 43 updates simultaneously, loot sacrificed to the dark forces of the universe, an overly sensitive imbecile, an independent woman who needs no one, and moreover, who has never needed anyone, a friend dependent on her friends, an ex-future mistress of a naked dog from Peru, a Saint-Mary of grace and pity, a devoted lover, a future ex-devoted lover, an undevoted then devoted ex-lover – pause.
If a living entity can transform like that into all that, sometimes undergoing two or three metamorphoses simultaneously, it’s bound to end up triggering meta-physical process errors and involuntary hackings into the energetic and spiritual datasets of the established order, right?
concept, choreography, performance and lyrics Mercedes Dassy ⎸ dramaturgie Hanna El Fakir ⎸ musical production and sound design Maxime Pichon ⎸ scenography, costumes and accessories Flavie Torsiello, assisted by Emma Paris, Marie-Céline Debande and Lyv Santerre ⎸ light design Vera Martíns ⎸ stage management Charlotte Müller ⎸ light engineering Vera Martins, Charlotte Müller (alternately) ⎸ sound engineering Lucie Gresil, Maxime Pichon (alternately) ⎸ make-up artist Melissa Roussaux ⎸ outside eyes Svétäl-Anand Chassol, Alphonse Eklou and Sabine Cmelniski ⎸ assistant Fanny Brulé Kopp ⎸ harmonisation of the extract from Virginie Despentes' speech Chassol ⎸ interns Morgane Brien-Hamdane, Géraldine Tatard, Angelica Ardiot, Robin Dehenain ⎸ production and distribution ama brussels - Babacar Ba, Clara Schmitt, Emi Parot, France Morin ⎸ executive production ama brussels ⎸ coproduction Charleroi danse, les Halles de Schaerbeek, Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans, Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, CCN-Ballet national de Marseille, les SUBS ⎸ residencies Charleroi danse, le Théâtre Varia, le BAMP, les SUBS, Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans, Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, CCN-Ballet national de Marseille, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Centre national de la Danse, Lafayette Anticipations ⎸ with support from la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Direction de la danse, de Wallonie-Bruxelles International, de Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre/Danse
Mercedes Dassy is artist in residence at Charleroi danse.
thanks to ma fille pour la force de vie, Zoë Chungong pour le tuto de heels dance, Yasmina Tayoub pour les dj set de recherche, Selma Lisein pour être toujours là, Svet Chassol pour le soutien et la coordination familiale sur toute la ligne.