As a writer, actor, performance artist and musician, Vimala Pons has established herself as a multifaceted artist, on stage and on screen, moving with agility between disciplines. In the wake of her previous works, Honda Romance continues to explore the sense of balance, or rather what threatens it. Physical imbalance be omes a metaphor for our own instability. Vimala Pons offers a response to the constant flow of information we’re bombarded with, our fluctuating emotions and the incessant stream of our thoughts. It takes the form of a physical and musical score for ten performers, three wind blowers and a satellite. A ballet tinged with humour and nostalgia, set to music by Tsirihaka Harrivel and Rebeka Warrior, and directed by Fiona Monbet and Romain Louveau.
Cast
choir music composition
Rebeka Warrior
satellite music composition
DMRA
artistic collaboration for musical direction, adaptation, arrangement
Fiona Monbet, Romain Louveau
scenographic research
Benjamin Bertrand, Marion Flament, Vimala Pons
scenographic review
Marion Flament
satellite designer
Charlotte Wallet
general stage manager
Benjamin Bertrand, Marc Chevillon
lighting designer
Arnaud Pierrel
sound designer
Anaëlle Marsollier
costume designer
Marie La Rocca
costumes assistant
Anne Tesson
artistic collaboration
Emeline Hervé
production assembly
Adeline Ferrante
blowers designer
François Philippi
production
TOUT ÇA/QUE ÇA, Comédie de Genève, Miroirs Étendus (production musicale)
coproduction
Odéon Théâtre de l'Europe, MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble - scène nationale, Les Nuits de Fourvière - festival international de la Métropole de Lyon, Festival d'Automne, Centre dramatique national de Tours - Théâtre Olympia, Malraux scène nationale Chambéry Savoie, Le Lieu Unique - Nantes, Centre dramatique national Orléans/Centre-Val de Loire, Centquatre - Paris, Les Halles de Schaerbeek - Bruxelles, 3 bisf Centre d'arts contemporains arts vivants & arts visuels - Aix-en-Provence
avec le soutien de
la Fondation BNP Paribas
en coréalisation avec
le Festival d’Automne
soutiens à la résidence
Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie — La Brèche à Cherbourg, Villa Belleville — Paris, La Ménagerie de Verre dans le cadre du dispositif StudioLab, MC2 : Maison de la culture de Grenoble — scène nationale
Five dates
1990 (age 7) Car accident on departure from Trivandrum - Kerala, arrival in Paris.
1995 (age 12) Left ankle sprain at the French shotokan karate team championships and broken coccyx at the Colombes skating rink following a fall while standing still.
2004 (age 21) Abdominal tear in tennis.
2017 (33) Sprained cruciate ligaments on a sledge in the Jura mountains, and an eight-metre fall from his partner Tsirihaka Harrivel.
2021 (37) Cracked meniscus during a filming chase, and displaced rib in the controlled explosion of a fake rock on his head.
