FREE MIDI INFO. New episode in the crisis at the Nîmes theater. While the city attacks the management of former director François Noël, 70 artists publish a text to thank him for his work at the head of the institution for 20 years.
The series continues… François Noël left the management of the Nîmes theater at the end of last January. The municipality, the association’s main financial supporter, criticizes it for expensive management and a financial hole. He defended himself by blaming the drop in subsidies, following the financial crisis.
In this context, a collective of seventy artists, from all backgrounds, regularly programmed in recent years by François Noël, publishes a thank you text. The Publicis consultants agency is responsible for distributing the letter, which should give it some resonance in cultural circles.
Among the signatories, the choreographer Philippe Découflé, the conductor of Les Siècles François-Xavier Roth, the actors Rodolphe Dana, Patrice Thibaud, François Morel, the author Fellag, the figures of the flamenca scene Israel Galvan, Andres Marin, Rocio Molina or Eva Yerbabuena, the American company Trisha Brown or Dominique Mercy, former artistic director of the Pina Bausch company, the cellist Vincent Courtois, the dancers Olivier Dubois and Fabrice Ramalingon, the directors Bruno Geslin, Martial di Fonzo Bo, Guillame de Séverac-Schmitz and Dan Jemmett or the former director of the Uzès Danse festival, Liliane Schaus. The next season has not yet been made public, but some are scheduled for it.
“Unfailing dedication alongside the artists”
“All of us, actors, directors, choreographers and musicians, would like to send our warmest thanks to François Noël for his unfailing dedication over the last twenty years alongside the artists and their projects,” write the artists.
They continue: “Since 2003, he has worked within the Nîmes theater to promote the vitality of the performing arts with the sole adage of audacity and diversity. The relevance of his programming and the intelligence of their inscriptions in political thinking global cultural heritage, have contributed to our loyalty to Nîmes, to its audiences and to its territory.”
And to conclude: “We had the chance to meet spectators from diverse origins, curious and warm. Each and every one of us in our own right, we are proud to have participated alongside François Noël and its teams all these years, to this ideal of a popular theater in the noble sense of the term”.
The signatories are:
Tanguy Accart for Alain Buffard, choreographer
Jacques Allaire, actor, director
Advantage of the doubt collective, actors, directors
Yves Beaunesne, director
Emilio Belmonte, film director
Nadia Beugré, dancer, choreographer
Annabelle Bonnéry, artistic director Cie Carte Blanche
Raquel Camerina, lyrical singer
Julien Chavrial, actor
Corinne Cicolari, actress
David Clavel, actor, director
Anne Collod, choreographer
David Coria, dancer, flamenco choreographer
Vincent Courtois, cello musician
Valérie Crouzet, actress
Rodolphe Dana, actor, director
Tomás De Perrate, flamenco singer
Philippe Decouflé, dancer, choreographer
Claude Degliame, actress
Daniela Lazary, producer
Marcial Di Fonzo Bo, actor, director
Olivier Dubois, dancer, choreographer
Vincent Dupont, choreographer
Child from Elche, chanteur
Mohand Fellag, author, director, actor
Juliette Flippo, actress
Jean-Claude Fonkenel, director
Kate France, actress
Israel Galván, dancer, flamenco choreographer
Bruno Geslin, director
Irène Gordon, press officer
Yohan Héraut, classical pianist musician
Katja Hunsinger, author, director, actress
Emmanuelle Huynh, dancer, choreographer
Dan Jemmet, director
Vanasay Khamphommala, actress, director
Sophie Lagier, actress, director
Leonor Leal, dancer, choreographer
Valérie Lévy, author, producer
Pierre Maillet, actor, director
Andrés Marin, dancer, flamenco choreographer
Nicolas Martel, actor
Dominique Mercy, artistic director of Cie Pina Bausch 2009-2017
Céline Millat-Baumgartner, actress, author
Rocio Molina, dancer, flamenco choreographer
Ana Morales, dancer, flamenco choreographer
François Morel, author, director, actor
Dorothée Munyaneza, dancer, choreographer
Sandrine Nicolas, actress, director
Cédric Orain, director
Jean-Marie Hordé, theater director of Bastille-Paris
Sylvie Pabiot, dancer, choreographer
Marc Paquien, director
Philippe Pierlot, musician, conductor
Elian Planés, actor, director
Jean-Michel Rabeux, director
Fabrice Ramalingom, dancer, choreographer
Pierre Rigal, dancer, choreographer
Marie-Hélène Roig, actress, director
François-Xavier Roth, musician, conductor
Olivier Saladin, actor
Franco Senica, comedian
Liliane Schaus, former director of the Uzès choreographic development center
Guillaume Severac-Schmitz, actor, director
Eram Sobhani, actor, director
Patrice Thibaud, author, director, actor
Stéphanie Thiersch, choreographer
Cie Trisha Brown, danse
Maguelonne Vidal, composer, director
Élise Vigier, actress, director
Eva Yerbabuena, dancer, choreographer.
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