«MIRLITONS»
Aymeric Hainaux & François Chaignaud

Mirlitons is French.

It is pronounced like this: mirlitong.

It has different meanings in German:

• gold coin

• flute

• sweet pastry

• or: headdress

2 actors are on stage.

One actor dances.

The other actor makes music.

They use shoes and microphones.

They make funny noises.

It looks like a competition.

The stage is small.

The play is surprising and funny.

Choreographer, dancer and singer François Chaignaud graduated from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et danse de Paris in 2003. His works are based on encounters that combine different practices: Singing, medieval or baroque musical repertoire, contemporary dance and sacred art. This has led him to numerous collaborations, including with Marie-Caroline Hominal, Théo Mercier, Cecilia Bengolea, Nino Laisné, Marie-Pierre Brébant and Akaji Maro. He worked with large ensembles in 2018 for SOUFFLETTES (Ballet Carte Blanche from Norway) and in 2022 for T U M U L U S with Geoffroy Jourdain (Les Cris de Paris). In 2021 he founded his own production structure MANDORLE PRODUCTIONS.

Aymeric Hainaux comes from the visual arts, is a musician, publisher and poetry writer. His approach to human beatbox is idiosyncratic, direct and radical, his technique incomparable. With his label Isola Records, he publishes books, cassettes, CDs and records by artists and groups that operate at the boundaries of concert and performance. The diversity of his projects has led him to perform in the back rooms of restaurants as well as at prestigious venues, including Mixart Myrys, the CND (Centre National de la Dance), Les Siestes Électroniques, Palais de Tokyo and the Sonic Protest festival. In Zurich, he recently performed with his music brut duo Cantenag Dagar at the Bosch Bar.

Espace Pasolini/Laboratoire artistique Valenciennes (FR), La Villette Paris – Initiatives d’Artistes (FR), Malraux – Scène nationale de Chambéry Savoie (FR) und Les Aires – Théâtre de Die et du Diois, scènes conventionnées d’intérêt national – « Art en territoire » (FR) Besonderer Dank Balakumar, Edouard Prabhu & Prune Becheau