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OCÉAN BRUN

Creation 2024

Since 2011, in the Caribbean archipelago, the sea, laden with sargassum, has been changing colors and growing thicker…Océan brun …

 

Marlène Myrtil, whose choreography dialogues with the environment, has experimented with the survey of residents as a tool for artistic creation. The stories, complaints, the shortness of breath, the sensory abnormalities reveal a furious, resilient and therapeutic dance. 

 

Thus, the performance Océan brun is nourished by imaginary, suspended and contrasted moments where the unbearable landscape becomes dreamlike, in which the performers’ dance, like a backwash, reclaims vitality and frees a speech delivered in an uncommon context. 

 

From the inside out, Océan brun offers a path of listening, of perception where the two performers Deborah Lary and Francis Saint-Albin question the body-landscape, the body-matter, expose their fragility and go on a quest of regaining their own breath…

 

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ARTISTIC TEAM

Choreography: Marlène Myrtil 
Dance-performance: Deborah Lary and Francis Saint-Albin

Music: Christophe Césaire

Light manager: Viviane Vermignon

Video, photography: Fred Lagnau

Photo credit: Elise Fitte-Duval

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performances

SUPPORT

Ministère de la Culture - Dac Martinique, Collectivité Territoriale de Martinique, F.E.A.C. Ministère des Outre-mer, Ville du Lamentin
Residency: Terre d'Arts, Fort-de-France - Dispositif Récif/Karukera Ballet, Guadeloupe Centre culturel du Bourg, Ville du Lamentin.

Studio: Grand-Bourg, Marie-Galante, Centre culturel André Aliker Fort-de-France
 

TOURING HISTORY

April 30 2026 : Let's Dance International Frontiers Festival, Leicester, England 

October 16 2025: school show, Collège du Vauclin, Martinique.

October 13 2025: school show, Lycée Nord Caraïbes, Bellefontaine, Martinique.

January 31 2025: school show, Lycée Nord Atlantique, Sainte-Marie, Martinique.

January 30 2025: Université des Antilles, Campus de Schoelcher, Martinique.

January 28 2025 : school show, Lycée Schoelcher, Fort-de-France, Martinique.

June 21 2024: Ecomusée de Marie-Galante - Habitation Murat, Guadeloupe.

February 2 and 3 2024: Cultural Center, Le Lamentin, Martinique.

RESIDENCIES

2024

June 17 to 26: Karukera ballet, Pointe-à-Pitre, as part of the dispositif Récif.

January 27 to February 1: Cultural center, Le Lamentin, Martinique.

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2023

June 18 to 30: Dispositif Récif, Karukéra ballet, Point-à-Pitre.

February 06 to 15: Cultural Center Aliker, Fort-de-France.

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2022

November 14 to 23: Terres d'arts, Tivoli, Fort de France. Show at Campus de Schoelcher - Université des Antilles on November.

May 11 to 20: Studio, Carrefour de l'Etoile, Grand Bourg, Marie-Galante.

Ouverture publique scolaire le 20 mai 2022

January 26 to February 5: Terre d'arts, Tivoli, Fort-de-France. Limited public opening on February 5.

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2021

December 6 to 10: Terre d'arts, Tivoli, Fort-de-France. Public openning on December.

September 27 to October 4: Terre d'arts, Tivoli, Fort-de-France. Limited public opening on October 4. 

Océan brun

Océan brun

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