Oriane Mauk studied the work of Alice Laloy and the show Pinocchio (live) in the context of the review K. Trans-European review of philosophy and arts of the University of Lille.
Category: PRESS REVIEW
Podcast / ARTCENA
Interview with Alice Laloy realized by ARTCENA in the {ARTIST PORTRAIT} collection.
Death Breath Orchestra, a piece written around the breath, in an unbreathable world
An report from Sofia Anastasio for France Musique – February 4, 2021
Sound immersion behind the scenes of Death Breath Orchestra with Alice Laloy and Fanny Meteier.
Alice Laloy breathes new life into an asphyxiated world
Article by Christophe Candoni for Sceneweb.fr – February 6, 2021
“Rather than sacking and destruction, the artist summons inertia, the inanimate, but in order to better research and especially question the living. “I lend objects a soul. Puppets fascinate me because of the theatricality that they are. they represent. I dream of seeing them smile, breathe. I hope to see them live. I use the theater to make this thing possible.”
Toutelaculture.com
Article by Amelie Blaustein Niddam for Toutelaculture.com – January 22, 2021
“In this show without words, a lot of things are said about the urgency of being able to breathe together again. It does not date from the Covid, indeed, it speaks as much about the ecological situation as about the pandemic, but our eyes are today are not in the capacity to see anything other than an ultra real catharsis, whereas nothing is on this stage, of our emotional state.”
Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil
Article by Rosita Boisseau for newspaper Le Monde – May 23, 2020
“In Montreuil, a theatrical re-entry with counted steps. The director Alice Laloy opened the New Theater of Montreuil with auditions of musicians. (…) “Death Breath Orchestra” will make an orchestra of five brass musicians ring around an “asphyxiated world”. A bit ironic when you find yourself suffocating like a carp under your mask.”
Golden Fleece
Les Inrockuptibles – March 11, 2020
“With “À poils”, Alice Laloy invents a contemporary tale at the crossroads of two worlds by releasing her hairy ogres in the midst of those we designate as their prey. (…) Taming the other by overcoming his fears is in heart of the stakes of this fable to experience live. ”
Itching powder
Article by Christophe Schneider for newspaper Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace – March 6, 2020
“A show for young audiences but also a performance, “À poils” hides its game well, putting together very discreetly, in everyone’s face and beard, the pieces of a puzzle, the whole of which is inevitably unveiled at the right time.”
Who are these hairy people invading the stage?
Article by Dom Poirier for newspaper L’Alsace/DNA – February 3, 2020
“Alice Laloy offers a most unexpected creation for young audiences, this week at the Comédie de Colmar. Her show, called “A poils” plays with the established codes and conventions of theater for young audiences.”
A poils – Interview RDL68
Interview of Alice Laloy & Csaba Palotai on the radio RDL68 – february 2020.
A poils – Report movie in Colmar
A report movie made by Diversions Magazine, in Comédie de Colmar.
Pinocchio (live) or the dance of children-puppets
“The International Biennale of Puppetry Arts, supported by the Mouffetard – Puppet Theater in Paris, invited Alice Laloy and her company S’Appelle Reviens to present for the first time the performance Pinocchio (live). The proposal is absolutely successful, and built, in spite of everything, an expectation that resolves into a magnificent finale. Beautiful, intelligent, fascinating: welcome to the border cloud where the child and the puppet are confused! ”
An article by Mathieu Dochtermann for Tout la Culture, May 2019
Pinocchio (live): Ritual for metamorphoses
“Pinocchio (live) is a continuation of this research on the hidden life of the puppet. (…) Like the exhibition [Pinocchio (s)], she anchors fiction in life. In a daily life that participates in a kind of magical realism. Strangeness all the more disturbing as it is based on a rejection of any illusion of reality. For more than the story for children which she takes the title, it is his own creative process that Alice Laloy gives to see in Pinocchio (live). Through a ritual that takes the usual cycle of life and death of the puppet backwards. ”
article by Anaïs Heluin for Scèneweb, May 2019
Puppets are not just for children!
“As she can not reasonably give life to a piece of wood, the artist decides to reverse the process. Spectators watch, live, a metamorphosis that is a little cold in the back. Lying on work benches, the children are transformed into inert puppets, who re-animate themselves and reclaim their bodies through dance. Live puppets? Dead children? “Pinocchio (s) live” crystallizes all the ambiguity of this demanding art. So much so that in the end, we do not know who pulls the strings. ”
Article by Emeline Collet for Le Parisien, May 2019
Report by Daniela Bach on the opening of BIAM, broadcast on ZDF
By Daniela Bach, April 2019
Everything is transformation, metamorphosis, visual and sound.
“Alice Laloy is looking for a language. She writes by staging.
Her approach is nourished by a dialogue between a concrete and practical logic that she maintains by “tinkering”, and a mental logic of “reverie” evolving through free associations. His theater is populated with images. With the performers and the subjects she brings together, she tries to make these visual sensations tangible according to a logic that belongs to the world she orchestrates. In his work, everything is transformation, metamorphosis, visual and sound. ”
L’Œil de la photographie, April 2019
In joyful chaos, “Ça dada” tirelessly praises the creative impulse. Wow!
“In joyful chaos, “Ça dada” tirelessly praises the creative impulse. Wow!
They’ve done it! They’re mad! They have pulled off the impossible task of reproducing a one hundred year old artistic blitz!”
“There is as much excitement as there is laughter in the aisles. As usual with Am Stram Gram, thrilled parents delight in the subtleties and cultural references whilst children giggle at the onomatopoeia and the slapstick inventions. There is something for everyone, everyone’s creative juices are unleashed, inspiring us to become the poet of our own insubordination.”
La Tribune de Genève
Without a doubt the most lively show of the season
“How delightful to witness the untamed roar that rises form the children when the walls fall apart in a succession of exquisite images, or their shrieks of joy when the time comes to play at the great game of Nothing. We are left sighing with contentment long afterwards. Decidedly, Dada is a true tonic.”
Paris Mômes 07/04/2018
(Maïa Bouteillet)
Ça dada it’s insane
“Ça Dada is deliciously insane… In an unbridled, thrilling outbrust, Alice Laloy and a wonderful trio of actors completely reinvent the spirit of Dada. The Dada theatre shatters everything and turns it on its head. In a rampant, ransacking esthetic, where paint flies and an array of inventively reclaimed objects appear and accumulate, images of chaos and of breathtaking beauty appear before our eyes…”
(Christophe Candoni)
Ça dada TTT – We love passionatly
“It is a difficult task to put into words a performance in which such a powerful breath of freedom blows away all the established codes of theatre, and others along with it. Thinking outside the box is at the very heart of Alice Laloy’s remarkable, original and flabbergasting work.”
Françoise Sabatier-Morel
Telerama Sortir TTT 04/2018