Sunday, July 26 – 5:00 p.m. / Valloire Cinema
Monday, July 27 – 3:00 p.m. / Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, Le Savoie Cultural Center
With the participation of children from after-school programs
Trio Barock
by Les Barbarins Fourchus
The "Cultural Bridges" concerts bring together early music and contemporary artistic expression, with the aim of fostering a dialogue between different artistic styles.
The Barock Trio, or… how to make Baroque music accessible to everyone. Or… how a die-hard American rock band, having fallen under the spell of classical music, sets off on a European tour with its chamber music trio.
During the concert, their modern instruments gently set the beautiful, unrestrained Baroque music free from its constraints.
Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, Benedetto Giacomo Marcello, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Antonio Vivaldi, James Oswald… and a few little-known gems take on a rock sound and go electric! All while staying true to every nuance of the scores.
The trio is accompanied by an elegantly eccentric emcee. Speaking near-fluent English, she punctuates the program with poems and anecdotes of varying degrees of authenticity and relevance, guiding the concert through its twists and turns.
Programme
Works by Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, Benedetto Marcello, Marin Marais, James Oswald, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, and Antonio Vivaldi.
Cast
Sergio Zamparo, flute, electric harpsichord
Pascal Billot, saxophones, electric guitar
Michel Teyssier, electric guitar
Isabel Oed – game
Les Barbarins Fourchus Theater Company
Sailing on the ever-flowing waters of retro-modern song, rock, electro, and jazz, as well as theater, circus, and cinema, Les Barbarins Fourchus “defy the outrages of the aesthetic police” and have been bringing their spectacular show since 1992 to the streets, big tops, café terraces, small theaters, and festival stages across France and Navarre. They strive to make words, hearts, and bodies dance to a delightful satire woven from short stories and grand emotions, from the rumblings of the world and intimate words.
An extraordinary, cosmopolitan troupe, Les Barbarins Fourchus draw inspiration from artists as diverse as Boris Vian, Jacques Prévert, Zavatta, Fellini, Mad Professor, Orson Welles, and The Clash. But their work is based above all on collective creativity, which allows them to create a body of work that is constantly evolving.
The company is now located at the Salle Noire, in the heart of the former Cémoi chocolate factories in Grenoble.
The Barbarins Fourchus collective receives support from the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, the Isère Departmental Council, Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole, and the City of Grenoble.
The educational programs of the Valloire Baroque Festival
As part of its educational initiatives, the Festival is presenting LeTrio Barock this year, with the aim of blending different worlds. The show, structured as a journey back and forth between the modern world and the Baroque world, will juxtapose contemporary figures—such as rock musicians or a master of ceremonies—with the Baroque musical universe.
About fifteen children fromafter-school programsin Valloire and the Maurienne Valley , as well as other interested participants, will take part in workshops led by the artists on the morning of Monday, July 27. The goal of these workshops is to integrate the children into the show’s theatrical dynamics by inviting them to imagine and enact an incongruous situation and/or a dreamlike apparition set to Baroque music. This process will be accompanied by visual arts activities. The workshops aim to introduce participants to collective artistic practice while raising their awareness of the richness of potential dialogues between cultural worlds that might initially seem distant.