Camille Freychet
Actress, author and radio producer Camille Freychet grew up in the Paris region, between fields and motorways. She draws her inspiration from the cinema, the movements of nature, the moped and hitchhiking.
Alongside her training as a film director - documentary and fiction - at the Sorbonne, Camille trained as an actress at the Conservatoire Jacques Ibert (Paris19) in the classes of Emilie-Anna Maillet and Eric Frey, before joining ESACT in Liège, from which she graduated in 2019. She has had the opportunity to learn a number of body and vocal techniques during a course run by Ariane Mnouchkine at the Théâtre du Soleil, as well as with her Body-Mind Centering dance training course run by Nadia Vadori-Gauthier.
Camille has recently worked as an actress with the WORKCENTER of Gerzy Grotowski (Tiyatro
Medresesi, Turkey), Nabil Ben Yadir (Les Films du Fleuve), Dominique Roodthooft (Le Corridor) and Jean-Claude Bertutti (Théâtre des Martyrs).
In 2022, as a prizewinner at the FACR, she produced a radio production entitled ‘Ouvrir la brèche’, a collective self-fiction and documentary (SACD Radio Prize 2023, selection for the Festival Longueurs d'ondes 2024, broadcast by Maison Poème, Radiola, radio stations in progress).
In July 2023, Camille wrote and performed her first dramatic text, ‘Y'a brûler et cramer’, in collaboration with sound artist Maïa Blondeau, at the Théâtre des Doms as part of Garden Party#3 at the Festival Off d'Avignon.
They are currently working together on the follow-up to this hybrid theatre and sound project : Y'à brûler et cramer (faceB) working title.
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Maïa Blondeau
Maïa is a multi-instrumentalist and composer for several Belgian, French, and Swiss theater and dance companies (Manuel d'Exil by Maya Bösch, Bocas de oro by Marcela Santander Corvalan, Raide d'équerre by Pauline Brun, Mérydes by Léa Vayrou, etc.) and also composes for short films and documentaries (Côme Chatelain, Camille Béglin). For about ten years, Maïa was a solo saxophonist with various philharmonic orchestras (China, United States, France). Her visual and sound work explores the relationships between movement (sound/image/gesture). She participates in several group exhibitions in Belgium and abroad (BSP22, Césaré, Artour, etc.).
Currently, she is a beatmaker with the gender-inclusive rap collective Gender Panik, producer for the rapper Le Talu (winner of the 2024 F dans le Texte award), and co-founder of the electronic music collective etat_zero. She is participating in the 2023 Avignon Off Festival as a musician, sound designer, and co-dramaturge in the short piece that won the Garden Party#3 award at the Théâtre des Doms, "Y'a brûler et cramer" by Camille Freychet.
She co-wrote, with Greta Fjellman, Wireless People, the first show by their company Wireless People Collective (premiered in January 2024 in Brussels, toured in March-April, and will be performed at the Théâtre des Doms during the 2024 Avignon Off Festival). They are now beginning work on Try_Love, their second show, which will explore love, struggle, and networks, featuring a dozen teenagers on stage.
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