Jonathan Capdevielle 

Adishatz is a self-portrait shaped by a blend of sung material and imitation. Drawing on the style of autofiction, a sort of confessional documentary that highlights a character’s wanderings between real life and fantasy/dream life, I intend to write this show based on songs and conversations that, much like private notes, evoke roots and family.    

Adishatz hinges on the technique of imitation that is often used to entertain. I warp this technique to the point of disorder, much like a blank tape upon which I record bits of the world that surrounds and constitutes me.  

The ambivalent character I’m interpreting wavers between gracefulness and gruffness. The use of transvestism allows me to delve into the notion of solitude, while conveying delicacy and sensitivity. Transvestism is common to both men and women, and can be used for both genders. It emits a sense of strangeness, of uneasiness, that enables many different kinds of reversal and alteration. 

Solitude is perceptible: sad and melancholic but never tragic. I wish to work on the nostalgia of things, in order to summon pivotal memories of identity from childhood or adolescence; the nostalgia for yesterday’s hits that marked my background and continue to resound today… I want to rekindle memories, and to stimulate the audience’s memory. 

The show thereby takes on a cathartic dimension, as the character’s identity is gradually revealed, but will probably never be clear: ambivalent, complex, funny or sad, man or woman, powerful or fragile, somewhere between real life and fantasy.

Bureau Cassiopée
Léonor Baudouin - production and distribution leonor@bureaucassiopee.fr
Executive Producer: Bureau Cassiopée
Co-producers: Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier Languedoc Roussillon dans le cadre de ]domaines[ (FR) • Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté, Belfort dans le cadre de l’accueil-studio (FR) • BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen (NO) 
Supported by: Centre national de la Danse for the studio during rehearsals.

Concept and performance: Jonathan Capdevielle
Lights: Patrick Riou
Stage manager and sound manager: Christophe Le Bris
Artistic collaboration: Gisèle Vienne
Artistic consultant: Mark Tompkins 
Audio assistance: Peter Rehberg 
Touring artistic assistant: Jonathan Drillet
With participation of Ecume university choral group of Montpellier – Musical direction: Sylvie Golgevit – with Paco Lefort, Jean-Luc Martineau, Pierre-Yves Bruzzone, Olivier Strauss, Benoit Vuillon
Acknowledgements: Aurélien Richard, Mathieu Grenier, Tibo Javoy, Ya Basta, Jean-Louis Badet and to Barbara Watson and Henry Pillsbury.
With the help of DACM and the technical staff of Quartz, Scène Nationale de Brest