The title refers to Las Vegas Parano novel by Hunter S. Thompson where the author describes an hotel room that looked like ”the site of some disastrous zoological experiment involving whiskey and gorillas”. -With Whisky Gorilla YoungSoon Cho Jaquet makes us live through an intimate and singular experiment. She is dancer, spectator, master of ceremony, choreographer and more. Aiming for a sweet complicity with the audience and willing to play with it the artist of Korean origins capitalizes fully on sharing and exchange possibilities that stage offers. With a few objects and derisory means she makes a fantastic bestiary come alive: snakes, gorillas, phantasmagorical forms, but also a cabin, a kimono, a sculpture or a landscape. Chimerical creatures being born out of a giant origami, each situation deploys itself and evolves in an amazing way. A poetic solo which immerses the spectator in an equally strange and welcoming universe.
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PRODUCTION
Cie Nuna / YoungSoon Cho Jaquet
COPRODUCTION
Théâtre de l’Arsenic, Lausanne
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
Ville de Lausanne, Etat de Vaud, Loterie romande, Pour-cent culturel Migros, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, AVIVO
DISTRIBUTION
Choreography: YoungSoon Cho Jaquet
Interpretation: YoungSoon Cho Jaquet
Sound: Philippe de Rahm
Lights: Bert de Raeymaecker
Video: Frédéric Lombard
Pictures: Célina Chaulvin
Production: Michael Scheuplein
Booking: Joséphine Affolter, Tiziana Conte
Photo: Célina Chaulvin
Photo: Célina Chaulvin