OCÉAN BRUN

Creation 2024 - research in progress

In Martinique and on the Caribbean archipelago, the seas began to change color in 2011: Océan Brun.

This could be the foreword to a documentary series on the small screen, no it's real, regular, devastating, unbearable, sometimes suffocating...

The meeting between Florence Ménez, an anthropologist who won a grant from the Fondation de France to develop her project SaRiMed - Health Issues in the SARgasses for local residents and MEDIation MEDicale, and the choreographer Marlène Myrtil, whose work explores the question of the environment enabled a first art and science approach to this issue in 2021.

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This is how the choreographic installation project Océan Brun is articulated...   Based on the sensitive journey of   people living or working near the coast of Martinique, Marie -Galante, more exactly closer, always closer, places, spaces invaded by sargassum. After a time of investigations, encounters and research, the setting in temporal space will take place around a writing alternately spread out, suspended, chiseled, lightning, like the violence of this recurring and invasive phenomenon.

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But here, it is a dedicated space  thickened by light, image and vocal resonance which will welcome these witness bodies...

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