Theatre

Vimala Pons

Name: Vimala Pons - Le Périmètre de Denver
Start: 2022-02-10
End: 2022-02-12
Location: Centre Pompidou

Le Périmètre de Denver

10 - 12 Feb 2022

Centre Pompidou, Paris

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A mysterious murder was committed in a Brighton spa hotel in May 2008: the victim was found in her room. In a system of successive interviews, we meet seven people from very different backgrounds who do not know each other, all of whom were present in the hotel on the day of the murder.

But we quickly realise that the crossed testimonies do not concur with each other and that the versions of the same story, of the same evening, build up and do not fit together. So who is telling the truth? Which point of view is the right one? Who's who? In the course of their statements, each person presents themselves, testifies. At the same time, as is often the case with statements, the different digressions inside their accounts lead us to consider their shared relationship with lies, and thus their link to the "Denver Perimeter".

The Denver Perimeter is a space we create when we lie. It is a mental zone, more specifically, it is a time loop that repeats as it adapts to new situations. It is the loop of altered reality and the loop of lies. We have all entered the perimeter one day or another in our lives. This circle always takes on a "mission" or fight dynamic between one's self and a central object that is present in the formulation of the "lie". An allegorical life-sized object that must be raised up, supported and destroyed. How can one deconstruct who one is without destroying everything?

In Partnership with Ircam 

Design, creation, text and sound creation: Vimala Pons 

Artistic collaboration: Tsirihaka Harrivel 

Production management, distribution and artistic assistance: Adeline Ferrante 

Company administration: Alice Couzelas 

Production assistant: Pénélope De La Iglesia 

General management: Benjamin Bertrand 

Sound creation: Anaëlle Marsollier 

Light and sound management: Alex Hardellet, Arnaud Pierrel 

Dressers: Mélanie Leprince, Anaïs Parola 

Costume creation: Marie La Rocca, Anne Tesson, Rémy Ledudal 

Object construction: Charlotte Wallet, Olivier Boisson, Atelier de Nanterre-Amandiers, CDN 

SFX collaboration, prosthesis production: Atelier 69 and Elise Lahouassa 

Scenography collaboration: Marion Flament and Jimme Cloo (Bigtime Studio) 

Electro and video systems design: Alex Hardellet, Charles Sadoul 

Lighting system collaboration: Sylvain Verdet 

Ircam computerised music collaboration: Robin Meier 

Fireworks: Marc Chevillon 

Artiste de cirque et actrice, Vimala Pons a pour première formation le sport et la guitare classique, elle débute ensuite des études universitaires d’histoire de l’art à Paris 4 puis d’histoire du cinéma à Paris 8 avant d’intégrer en classe libre, le Cours Florent puis une formation au Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique de Paris (Cnsad) ainsi qu’un an au Centre national des arts du cirque (Cnac).

Depuis 2013, Vimala Pons évolue à travers le jeune cinéma indépendant et le cinéma d’auteur, jouant auprès des réalisateurs de la Nouvelle Vague et de la nouvelle génération tels que (A.Peretjatko, B.Mandico, S.Betbeder, T.Salvador C.Honoré, B.Jacquot, J.Rivette, A.Resnais, P. Garel, B.Podalydes, P. Verhoven, B.Kasmi, S. Demoustier, S.Mitré…) parmi tant d’autres.

Vimala écrit et conçoit depuis 2010 des spectacles performatifs de cirque avec son partenaire Tsirihaka Harrivel. En 2017, ils créent Grande — , un spectacle de cirque contemporain dont la tournée a duré trois ans et s’est achevée en mars 2019. En novembre 2020, Vimala a sorti Mémoires de l’homme fente, un livre audio de 52 minutes, une sorte de « court métrage sans image ».