Juliette Kempf
With L’Enveillée, Juliette Kempf creates an echo chamber, filled with song, silence, and simple gestures to watch over our dead in a new way. Four stories for a ceremony without worship, where the stage becomes a place of passage, a shared breath, without any artifice. The singing comes from the body, from memory, from forgotten rituals. Far from pathos, this theatre-poem seeks out the essence of ritual: to console, connect, and transform. A sensory and intimate journey, in which the audience is invited to care for its own humanity.
— Wednesday, October 8th, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. at Cosmopolis, Nantes:
Meeting and audio listening sessions about the immersive journey into the funerary rites of Madagascar led by the artistic team in August 2025.
— Friday, March 20th, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. at the Maison de Nicodème (37 rue Gaston Turpin, Nantes)
Opening of the exhibition Words toward Flight by Juliette Kempf. Exhibition from Saturday, March 21th to Sunday, June 21th, 2026.
Conceived, written and directed by Juliette Kempf
Performance: Roxane Palazzotto, Sylvain Manet, Victor Parente, Carole Verhaeghe
Textile design & costumes: Pauline Bourguignon
Scenic objects & lighting: Nicolas Barbera
Lighting design: Isabelle Ardouin
Vocal coaching: Sylvain Manet
Production and distribution: Gaëlle Hazouard
International distribution: Julia Langianni
Production : Le Désert en Ville
Partners & supports : Le Lieu Unique - Scène nationale de Nantes / Musée d’ethnographie de Genève / Plateforme 10 - Lausanne / Les Fabriques - laboratoires artistiques de la Ville de Nantes / La Maison de Nicodème - Nantes / La Maison du Chant - Marseille / La Guillotine - Montreuil / Association Hetsika / Association Aurore Madagascar / Institut Français / Université de Tuléar / Cosmopolis - Nantes / Fondation Stin’ Akri / Fondation Reine Reinette / Ville de Nantes / Département de Loire-Atlantique / FDVA / AG2R