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Friday, December 18, 2009 from 7:00 PM - 9:00 AM (ET)
Les Vraoums is a French, all-female cabaret show comprised of Maeva Cunci, Pauline Curnier-Jardin, Aude Lachaise, and Virginie Thomas. Their performances include cheap music, live singing, transvestites, dance, discussion, burlesque and more. Since 2006, Les Vraoums have been seen in a variety of venues from art galleries and dance studios to bars and even private homes. They are using their fall residency at Watermill to develop a new work entitled New Folk, New Freedom, and New Woman. The piece follows three main lines. New Folk reinvents folklore through the use of fragments of information, stories, songs, landscapes, and practices. New Freedom uses the energy of the sweating body through performance to commit to the pleasure and presence of the instant.New Woman explores the meeting of these two forces, the present performer and the cultural narrative, to interrogate the absurd prejudices and expectations of the French Woman. Ultimately, what emerges is both a new kind of cabaret and a new way of looking at old practices.
The day after their Watermill Center open rehearsal, on Saturday, December 19, Les Vraoums have already been invited to perform in the AUNTS Road Show, 7:00 P.M. at RPPP in Brooklyn. More information is at myspace.com/lesvraoums. This free workshop / work-in-progress showing is part of The Watermill Center's Fall 2009 Artists-in-Residency program, which sponsors emerging artists and scholars from around the globe who are exploring the creation of collaborative works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the existing norms of performance practice.
The Watermill Center was founded in 1992 by artistic director Robert Wilson as an international, multi-disciplinary center for studies in the arts and humanities. Located in a secluded, natural setting in Southampton, Long Island, New York, the Center has established a worldwide reputation as a unique laboratory for artists, students and individuals of all ages and backgrounds to explore the creative process. Through cross-disciplinary exploration, apprenticeship-style training with master artists, and creative exchange, the Watermill Center supports new work in all artistic disciplines, while inspiring a new generation of performers, artists, and global citizens.
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