Stéphane Marin & Nicolas Girard-Michelotti
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Stéphane comes from the world of sound and listening, Nicolas from the world of theater. One explores sensation, the other dramaturgy; one brings spaces to life, the other refines words within space. From this meeting emerged a shared desire: to merge their respective languages to create a new experience. How can one tell a story without imposing a narrative? How does our environment influence the way we perceive, experience, and think about things? How can words awaken the senses and enrich our experience? Using today’s world as their score and words as their instruments, Stéphane and Nicolas blur the boundaries between disciplines and experiment with new narrative forms that inhabit the space between site-specific performance and lived experience. During Chalon dans la rue, the duo will share their journey, the questions that shape their research, and the initial explorations that emerged: a roadmap combining text, sound, and lived experience that invites the audience to follow the trail, the clues left by another who is present in their very absence. Through aural storytelling and exploration, the spectators become agents of their own perception, invited to listen to and observe their environment to advance through the story.

Research laboratory tour: 1 hour and 50 minutes

Nicolas Girard-Michelotti is a writer, director, and co-founder of the Lichka theater company. He trained at the École du Nord and has been published by Les Solitaires Intempestifs and the École des Loisirs. His play *Je venais voir la mer*, produced by Les Plateaux Sauvages, won the Journées de Lyon prize, while *Mon pays de terre rouge* received an Artcena development grant. Stéphane Marin – Sound director, sound artist. At the intersection of listening to the landscape, recording the land, and contextual composition—exploring the porosity of a work as it interacts with reality—Stéphane Marin has dedicated his practice to in situ artistic adventures since 2002, tuning in to unusual and previously unheard spaces. In 2008, he founded Espaces Sonores, a company dedicated to the creation of contextual sound.