Choreographed theatrics await at Lunchmeat Festival’s annual event at Archa Theatre in the city centre, with a sole performance by Hakanaï, a duo comprised of Claire Bardainne & Adrien Mondot. Loaning their name from an ancient Japanese term encapsulating impermanence, fragility, and the quick brevity of certain transitory states, the word applies itself to humanity’s brief interlude on Earth and the broader ever-repeating cycles of nature in equal measure. In ‘Hakanaï’ the performance, reality and imagination merge, and a dancer ties together the associated concepts through projected images which blur the imaginative and real. Featuring animations drawn from physical movement modelling and a live original score, ‘Hakanaï’ confronts the audience with their own fragile state, and afterwards invites the viewers inside the world of their installation, to bring the performance to tangible, interactive closure.  

Credits

Conception, artistic direction scenography and stage setting: Claire Bardainne & Adrien Mondot

Computer Design: Adrien Mondot 

Dance: Akiko Kajihara, Virginie Barjonet, Satchie Noro, Francesca Ziviani alternating

Digital Interpretation: Jérémy Chartier, Loïs Drouglazet, Benoît Fenayon, Rodolphe Martin alternating 

Sound Design: Christophe Sartori, Loïs Drouglazet 

Sound Interpretation: Clément Aubry, Jérémy Chartier, Loïs Drouglazet, Pierre Xucla alternating 

Set Design and construction: Martin Gautron, Vincent Perreux 

Digital Toolset: Loïs Drouglazet 

Light Design: Jérémy Chartier 

Outside Viewer: Charlotte Farcet 

Costume: Johanna Elalouf

Technical Direction: Raphaël Guénot 

Administration: Marek Vuiton, assisted by Mathis Guyetand 

Production: Margaux Fritsch, Delphine Teypaz, Juli Allard-Schaefer