SILENCE
A CONCERT BY LUCIE ANTUNES
CHOREOGRAPHED BY MATHILDE MONNIER
This project was born from an artistic encounter between Lucie Antunes and Mathilde Monnier. Both share the same fascination with rhythm and its transformative power: how sound sets the body in motion, how dance makes music resonate.
The relationship to music is the foundation of this creation, conceived first and foremost as a concert, where listening and gesture are built as mirror images of one another.
Lucie Antunes, a drummer and percussionist trained in classical and contemporary music, composes here a new sonic work, in continuity with her exploration of trance and repetition. Her music, driven by obsessive rhythms and minimalist metric structures, follows in the lineage of Meredith Monk and the pioneers of minimalism.
Mathilde Monnier takes this musical material as the anchor point for the dance: bodies respond to rhythm as to a call. The choreography explores this intimate relationship between pulse and movement, in the manner of shamans for whom the beating of the drum opens pathways to other realms of perception. Rhythm acts here as a trigger for trance, a motor of the imagination.
Silence explores the relationship between sound and the body: sound is omnipresent, it passes through our bodies and makes life pulse through breath, heartbeats, voice, music, and the noises of the world.
Silence itself becomes a driving force and an accelerator of creation, both the point of departure and the point of arrival of a musical and choreographic experience. It is neither emptiness nor absence, but a pretext for the emergence of a richness of sounds and movements—a moment where music and dance converge.
Silence explores trance and altered states of consciousness, which transform the perception of time and space, oscillating between meditative slowness and rhythmic frenzy. The choreography draws inspiration from these variations, from movements that rise and fall, from pauses and sudden bursts, offering spectators a physical and sensory immersive experience.
The rhythmic work is based on precise structures: pulses, repetitions, and motifs inspired by nature—waves, tides, cycles—create a sonic and bodily backbone that supports the entire performance.
Composition, Music & Voice: Lucie Antunes
Choreography: Mathilde Monnier
Musicians: Lucie Antunes, Narumi Herisson, Laetitia N’diaye
Lighting Design: Éric Wurtz
Set Design: Annie Tolleter
Costumes: Laurence Alquier
General & Lighting Stage Management: Emmanuel Fornes
Sound Stage Management: Stéphane Le Brun
Production: Nicolas Roux
Performers & Musicians: Hans Peter Diop, Martin Enrique Gil, Thiago Granato, Lucia Garcia Pulles, Sophia Seiss, Carolina Passos Sousa, and Judit Waeterschoot
Production: Otto Productions
Co-produced with: La Cie MM / La Cie Sergeï / Bonlieu – Scène Nationale Annecy / Festival d’Automne à Paris / Festival d’Avignon (subject to confirmation) / Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse / Maison de la Danse, Lyon / La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand / CCN d’Orléans / La MAC de Créteil / Comédie de Valence / Théâtre de Sénart.
With the support of Pôle Européen Spirite, the Occitanie Region, and the Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès.
With additional support from La Commune – CDN d’Aubervilliers.
La Cie MM is supported by DRAC Occitanie / La Cie Sergeï is supported by DRAC Île-de-France.
Silence will be presented in Annecy in April 2026, with its premiere at the Festival d’Avignon, followed by a tour throughout France from autumn 2026, in resonance with the album release scheduled for June 2026.
