Presented by Seuls en Scène 2025 French Theater Festival:
Mémoires sauvées de l’eau by Nina Léger
Accompanied by Marina Chiche
Run Time
Approximately 1 hour
Language
Performed in French
Special Notes
Please silence all electronic devices including cellular phones and watches, and refrain from text messaging for the duration of the performance. No flash photography permitted.
Production Credits
Written and read by: Nina Léger
Music: Marina Chiche
With the support of Villa Albertine New York
Special Thanks
Association des Alumnis de la Villa Albertine, Caite Panzer ’04, Louise Quantin, Vincent Mano, et Laure Poupard.
About the Artists
Photo courtesy Nina Leger
Nina Léger is an author. Her 2017 novel, The Collection (Granta), first published in French by Gallimard under the title Mise en pièces, earned her the Prix Anaïs Nin and Prix Littéraire de la Vocation. More recently, Leger released Antipolis (Gallimard, 2021), a novel that follows the story of the Sophia Antipolis technology park. For her project as a Villa Albertine Resident in 2023, she continued her reflective research on the ways in which places—and their disputed histories—are written. In August 2024, she published Mémoires sauvées de l’eau (Gallimard). Alongside her writing, Leger teaches art history and theory at the Beaux-Arts de Marseille.
Photo courtesy Marina Chiche
Introduced to the public by the Victoires of Classical Music TV show and through her album releases, French violinist Marina Chiche pursues an international career that leads her to perform as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles at the most prestigious concert halls, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, and the National Concert Hall in Beijing. An artist committed to her time, she uses her book Legendary Women Musicians (First/Radio France editions) and her radio appearances on France Inter to make classical music accessible to the widest possible audience.
Distinguished as a Young Leader of the French American Foundation, a resident at Villa Albertine, and a fellow of the Marshall Memorial Fellowship, Marina Chiche is an ambassador of the French Touch movement. She is among the most important figures in French music today who makes culture shine beyond borders.
