Zidane, at this time’s hero on the Manège de Reims

tradition – Reims – Music

Revealed at 12:30 p.m

Few French athletes have had such a wealthy future as Zinédine Zidane: the primary champion of complete individuals in 1998, then on the high of his artwork in the beginning of the 2000s in membership and nationwide crew and at last picture fell on July 9, 2006 for his. final recreation within the World Cup ultimate in opposition to Italy. His failed exit, a purple card for tackling a brutal headbutt on Italian Marco Materazzi, together with the French crew’s defeat on penalties, stirred the inventive and cultural world. Particularly the author Jean-Philippe Toussaint, who imagined “The Melancholy of Zidane”, reworking a soccer icon right into a darkish and ambiguous literary hero.
Textual content freely tailored by Reims composer Thomas Nguyen, member of the IO Collective, capturing the semi-divine character of “Zizou” to query our society’s want for heroic figures. By dialogue between a drummer and a dancer, supported by a sound system stuffed with interviews with athletes, supporters, researchers and journalists, “The Melancholy of Zidane” additionally compares the bodily and psychological efforts of the a excessive stage sportsman and people of the sportsman. the dancer and the musician, pushed to all the time surpass themselves. A young relationship with an idol of all time, but in addition a powerful criticism of a grasping system.

Simon Ksiazenicki

“The Melancholy of Zidane”, Thursday 13 June, at 7pm, Le Manège, Reims. Time: 1 hour. Costs: €6 to €23.