Le poisson rouge

Le poisson rouge is a lyrical, corporeal and sonic ensemble performance. The performance is a progressive disintegration of textual patterns and sound improvisation.

Sylvain Souklaye summonses, manipulates and butchers analogue memories and their digital reincarnations. Le poisson rouge is a huis clos that symbolises an endless live looping made of naive dreams and ordinary brutality.

Le poisson rouge is the tale of an uprooted childhood stuck between a primal need of freedom and the national integration factory. Le poisson rouge is a quiet screaming.

As a child, how do you fight and survive an imaginary monster when it is a country, a culture, a History and a language? You moonwalk… loose yourself into a live looping where every word, sound and thought merge, collapse and forget themselves at each cycle, but… But intense breathing, words and movements could undermine the narrative.

Sylvain Souklaye and his ensemble articulate a visual organism creating layers of perdition and sequences of chaos. Who will have that last word between the creators and the creature? The witnesses.

Sylvain Souklaye and his wind-percussive-friction ensemble exhume, brutalise and dismantle a biography until it looks like something/someone the audience might recognise. The performance is a ritual and conversation with the audience. The ensemble and the performer tell and demand breathings, answers and fragments of life, to the many, to the unknown.

Le poisson rouge is an organised improvisation where faces and bodies swap emotions and experiences of childhood hidden in everyone’s darkness. With Le poisson rouge, Sylvain Souklaye and the ensemble ask the audience to break the bowl together, because there is nothing to forget when you move forward.