Seuls en Scène 2020 presents “A Conversation with Du sale! Creative Team Marion Siéfert & Mathieu Bareyre”

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Born in 1987, MARION SIÉFERT is a French writer, director and performer. Her work blends several artistic disciplines and theories and expresses itself through a variety of genres that include theatre, film and literature. She developed her first solo work 2 ou 3 choses que je sais de vous in 2018 in connection with her doctorate programme at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen, leading to a series of invitations by a number of French theatres and festivals. The documentary films Nocturnes and L’époque resulted from a collaboration between Marion Siéfert and director Mattieu Bareyre; moreover, she participated in works of different groups and artists, such as L’Accord Sensible, Séverine Chavrier, Joris Lacoste and Rimini Protokoll as translator, dramaturg or assistant director. She performed for the group La Fleur (Monika Gintersdorfer and Franck Edmund Yao) in Die selbsternannte Aristokratie, a production that was also shown by Wiener Festwochen in 2017. This was followed in 2018 by the piece Le Grand sommeil, which was invited to Festival d’Automne à Paris. Since 2017, Marion Siéfert has been artiste associée of the Centre Dramatique National (CDN) La Commune – Aubervilliers, where Du sale!, her third work as director, premiered in 2019.

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MATHIEU BAREYRE is a film director. His first short film was a documentary, Noctures (2015), and was selected at the Cinema du Reel and Rencontre europeennes du moyen metrage de Brive festivals. His other films include Young and Alive and L’époque.

MADELEINE PLANEIX-CROCKER is a French-American researcher and curator, currently based in Paris. In 2018, she founded the “Warm Up Sessions”, a performance series at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris that has welcomed guest artists such as Maguy Marin, La Ribot, Mette Ingvartsen, Bolewa Sabourin, and Jean-Biche. Madeleine is currently a PhD candidate at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), studying instances of community-based performances programmed in French cultural institutions. Her research and curatorial practices are greatly informed by a lifelong practice of dance and theatre, and her political activism promoting intersectional feminisms. Madeleine received her BA from Princeton University, followed by a first master’s degree from HEC Paris in arts management, and a second master’s from the EHESS where she conducted an action-based research project on feminist performances and “safe spaces”, in partnership with Women Safe non-profit. Her comparative cultural policy analyses appear in the publications of the Ministère de la culture and the Forum d’Avignon. She has also taught at Sciences Po Paris.