#ResidencyInsights

#ResidencyInsights

Choreographer, dancer and filmmaker Sidney Leoni returns for a second residency at PACT with his docu-fiction-dance-film-performance ›FLY‹; the first residency was together with composer Yoann Durant to produce and record ›FLY‹’s soundtrack and original songs, and this time he will be joined by lighting designer Anton Andersson and dancer Jaan Ulst to finalize the performance on PACT's stage.

›FLY‹ operates like a defective time machine, where time gets denied, where time periods merge with one another, where rock star Freddie Mercury gets presented to the famous ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinski, and where Leoni, serving as their lover, becomes the link in this fictitious world.

‘An homage to the Arts’, just as much as being ‘an intimate love letter to artists of the past’, ›FLY‹ is an invitation into a world of feelings, desires, transmissions, imaginary explorations and fantasies, where all get to circulate from one body to another, from one art form to another. It's an invitation to connect to one’s own affective memory, where feelings are being formed, and art materializes itself.

Produced, written, choreographed, directed & edited by:
Sidney LeoniPerformed live by:
Sidney Leoni & special guestsFilm cast:
Elias Girod, Halla Ólafsdóttir, Manon Santkin, Sidney Leoni, Olivier Valkeners & Eleanor BauerAlso featuring:
Alexandra Cismondi, Andros-Zins Browne, Christina Vantzou, Christine de Smedt, Dolores Hulan, Estelle Gautier, Guillem Mont De Palol, Jaime Llopis, Mette Ingvartsen & Zoë PoluchOriginal music and songs:
Yoann Durant & Sidney LeoniLighting design for live performance:
Anton AnderssonCinematography: Artur Castro Freire1st assistant camera:
Félix Moy2nd camera unit:
Hoang-Son Doan1st assistant camera 2nd unit:
Alexandre CabanneSound engineers:
Alban Cayrol, Hélène Clerc-Denizot, Aymeric de Palol & Aïda MerghoubProduction assistants:
Estelle Gautier & Amandine BigotCostume design:
Rachel Lesteven & Sidney Leoni & Marie DavinCostume assistants:
Jennifer Defays, Leila Bouzalmad & Quentin LevionnoisMakeup:
ValkoHair design:
Mathilde Wallez Stevenson & Sidney LeoniSet design:
Sidney Leoni & René LeoniCoproductions:
Weld (Stockholm), Kunstencentrum Buda (Kortrijk) and the national choreographic center of Caen (French Ministry of Culture and Communication)Project created in residence at Inkonst (Malmö), Dansehallerne (Copenhagen), Kunstencentrum Buda (Kortrijk), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Kunstencentrum STUK (Leuven), National Choreographic Center of Caen, Weld, & Howest - 'The level' / Campus for Digital Arts and Entertainment (Kortrijk)Administration:
The Artist Cooperative Interim Kultur (Stockholm)With the financial support of the Swedish Arts Council, the City of Stockholm, the Swedish Arts Department, the French Institute in Sweden, and the Arts Promotion Center Finland