{"id":389,"date":"2024-01-21T15:24:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volkanartz.w23.fr\/?p=389"},"modified":"2024-01-21T21:19:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T20:19:13","slug":"biennale-de-lacteur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volkanartz.chauss.in\/en\/biennale-de-lacteur\/","title":{"rendered":"A bi-annual event for the actor in Marseille"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late !
Me voil\u00e0 en retard dans la publication de cette semaine, le billet initialement pr\u00e9vu et traitant de la production d\u2019une chanson n\u2019\u00e9tant pas pr\u00eat\u2026 Et pour cause : j’ai pu participer \u00e0 la Bi-annual event for actors<\/a><\/strong>organized in Marseille by the group \"The prompt\" ( La R\u00e9plique<\/a> ) and hosted in the performance Hall \"La Cri\u00e9e\", in Marseille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I've decided to share early impressions and ideas about this event, where quite a few fellow actors of my area (and beyond) gathered, together with scholars, to discuss the question of the scenic presence.
Well, at least, it was the official theme. But we'll get to it later\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It's worth noting that this group of actors, established some 40 years ago, has an aim : uniting stage theater artists, make them know one another, stimulating training courses for professionals\u2026 
This specific event was a way to get out of the daily issues of the work and allow everyone to think a little bit about the craft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It's very positive to see people giving their time and energy in a collective effort. It's particularly cool to witness it, as the profession is, by essence (since there aren't much long standing theater companies anymore), quite individualistic.
As far as I'm concerned, I wasn't in this group until now, but merely gravitated around it - and these few days convinced me to go further (even if it appeared quite clearly that there are a lot of arguable questions about the theater world, which should be discussed with a good glass of wine, in order no to take it too seriously nor personally).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let's talk about the theme of this event : the scenic presence of the actor \/ actress.
As one participant rightly told : there would be as many definitions of this phenomenon as there are scenic artists. Therefore, there is something evanescent about it (which is somewhat paradoxal, isn't it ?). But it happened to be really funny, hearing theoretical conferences exposing complex views about everything but the theme of the conference ! 
I feel that those abstractions from scholars and other \"thinkers\" don't help the Theater world as a whole, because it adds to its already too elitist feel. It actually gets up to a point where it becomes an unintelligible gibberish. And the audience (mainly composed of actors) understood it all too well, but was maybe a little too polite\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour \u00eatre honn\u00eate, cet effet secondaire ind\u00e9sirable n’est pas l’apanage de cette rencontre, puisque le livre “Bruler les planches, crever l’\u00e9cran<\/a>“, refl\u00e9tant un colloque de 2001 \u00e9galement consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sence, n’\u00e9chappait pas non plus \u00e0 cette limite. 
Tr\u00e8s h\u00e9t\u00e9rog\u00e8ne (comme la plupart des publications collectives), il regroupe certains articles int\u00e9ressants et d’autres totalement incompr\u00e9hensibles (et je leur ai pourtant donn\u00e9 leur chance plusieurs fois).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De mani\u00e8re g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, cette observation est comme un sympt\u00f4me : avec un discours presque digne de l\u2019art contemporain (dans lequel le texte et le vedettariat font bien souvent l\u2019\u0153uvre, voir \u00e0 ce propos le film “The Kill Room<\/a>“), le th\u00e9\u00e2tre perd son ancrage populaire (pour peu qu\u2019il l\u2019aie jamais eu). 
En tout cas, m\u00eame la France des professions dites intellectuelles ne s\u2019y retrouve plus et d\u2019ailleurs ne s’y rend plus (sauf pour le th\u00e9\u00e2tre de divertissement qui trouve encore gr\u00e2ce\u2026) 
Who goes to the Theater nowadays ? Old people with subscriptions and theater students. I've got nothing against both of them, but let's recognize that elderly people cannot by essence incarnate the future, and that younger people should be spoiled with such pedantic and abstruse discourses..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A vrai dire, la profession en a conscience.  Elle sent bien qu\u2019elle est un peu hors-sol et plus grand monde ne se satisfait d\u00e9sormais de l’id\u00e9e d’exception (qui r\u00e9gnait en maitre jusqu’aux ann\u00e9es 2010-2020 et permettait encore de se positionner en pauvres victimes incomprises). Les actrices et acteurs semblent percevoir que l\u2019avenir leur r\u00e9serve bien des dangers : <\/p>\n\n\n\n