PROTOTYPE STATUS - JASMINE MORAND

MIRKIDS is a choreographic device for eight dancers which is presented as a physical kaleidoscope. It offers the young audience an experience and a journey that is both artistic and kinetic. The piece is based on perpetual movement to create a real «image factory» that is contemplative, fantastic and organic. Lying around the cylindrical structure like a zoetrope, each child can be immersed in the celestial vision of the show. MIRKIDS takes hold of each child’s imagination to animate and give meaning to the forms that take shape and diminish before our eyes. MIRKIDS, a kinetic image and hypnotic kaleidoscope of bodies, invites us to take a vision of the female and male body multiplied like an image observed through a kaleidoscope.

Prototype Status is a professional contemporary dance company founded in French-speaking Switzerland by choreographer and dancer Jasmine Morand. The company won the 2013 Dance Prize from the Fondation vaudoise pour la culture. Its goals are to make contemporary dance accessible and to conduct research into body language with artistic commitment that presents a balanced, delicate and unique approach to the conceptual and aesthetic part. Dance is combined with new technologies and visual arts to weave a hybrid and innovative work.

Concept and choreography Jasmine Morand / Dance (alternating cast) Fabio Bergamaschi, Louis Bourel, Laetitia Dupertuis, Jeanne Gumy, Eléonore Heiniger, Anne-Charlotte Hubert, Maxime Jeannerat, Zuzana Kakalikova, Krassen Krastev, Jasmine Morand, Ismael Oiartzabal, Amaury Reot, Luisa Schöfer, Nicolas Turicchia, Marco Volta, Daniela Zaghini / Assistant Fabio Bergamaschi / Scenography Neda Loncarevic / Costume design Toni Teixeira / Costume assistant Thomas Lopes / Light creation Rainer Ludwig / Sound creation Dragos Tara / Diffusion and production  Florence Francisco and Gabrielle Baille Les Productions de la Seine / Technical direction and stage manager Cécile Robin, Louis Riondel  / Technicians (alternating cast) Louis Riondel, Sébastien Graz, Charlotte Rychner, Luis Henkes, Naomi Meyer / Stage construction Jean-Marie Mathey, Antoine Mozer, Lucien Mozer – Le Rátelier / Mirrow construction Philippe Botteau, Léo Bachmann / Electric installation Luc-Etienne Gersbach / Painting Béatrice Lipp / Administration Valérie Niederoest / Production and tour manager Ana Lagarrigue / Communication Natacha Oberson / Acknowledgements Valentine Paley, Marianne Caplan, Virginie Pasquier, Fanny Courvoisier, Charlot Kolly, Thierry Loup pel seu patrocini a Reso i a Sebastien Lab per inspirar aquest projecte per a audiències joves
Coproduction Le Reflet – Théâtre de Vevey; Théâtre Benno Besson – Yverdon-Les-Bains; Équilibrie-Nuithonie – Fribourg; Théâtre Paul Éluard (TPE) – Scène Conventionnée – Bezons (FR); L’Arc – Scène nationale – Le Creusot (FR); Le Petit Théâtre de Lausanne; Kaserne – Bâle / With the support Reso – Réseau Danse Suisse, Pro Helvetia – Fundació suïssa per a la Cultura, i els Cantons. Promoció de l’espectacle en el marc de les trobades del Canal 23  al CDN Patin / Residences Dansomètre – espai de creació i recerca coreogràfica; Théâtre Paul Éluard (TPE)-Scène Conventionnée-Bezons (FR); Le Reflet – Théâtre de Vevey / With the support État de Vaud, Ville de Vevey, Loterie Romande, Pro Helvetia, Fondation Ernst Göhner, Fondation Sandoz, Pour-Cent Culturel Migros, Fonds Culturel de la SSA, Fonds Culturel Riviera, Fondation Corymbo, Fondation Lombard Odier
Prototype Status is supported by the city of Vevey and the State of Vaud. Tabé is a permanent resident at Dansomètre – a space for choreographic creation and research in Vevey