Saturday 12 October, 7pm

CCN¹

— 5 €

In 2021, the CCN¹ inaugurated the artist association project with Nina Santes, who has since created the solo Peeling Back. Her project COVEN brought together a group of women in Orléans and Vatan to exchange practices and knowledge. A podcast and an exhibition record this rich encounter, which formed a sisterly community over the course of a season. Another meeting with Mercedes Dassy, performed at the CCN¹, brought these two artists together, based on their work with text and voice and their current concerns. This autumn sees the end of the association with Nina Santes. During her residency for her new creation Wet Songs, a unique party celebrates three years of association by showcasing her creative work, her committed collaborators and, of course, a dancefloor!

On the programme: a collective performance of Wet Songs in connection with the work in progress. Then a conversation with Camille Louis, playwright and activist, about the questions that drive the Wet Songs project: how can thinking in terms of water and liquids be a driving force behind relationships and intimate and collective transformations? And a DJ set with Wol aka Bellatrix, singer, bassist and former world beatboxing champion.

Nina Santes
makes her stage debut as a puppeteer. Since 2008 she has collaborated as a performer with many artists. She is the author of choreographic and musical pieces, including Désastre (2012), in collaboration with the composer Kasper Toeplitz, Transmorphonema, a duet with the choreographer Daniel Linehan, and Self made man (2015). In March 2016, she co-signed a duet in collaboration with Célia Gondol: A leaf. In 2018, she created Hymen Hymne, a choreographic and musical creation for 5 performers. The same year, she received the SACD New Choreographic Talent Prize. In 2020, she created République Zombie, a creation for three performers. She also created (Though a silent orchestra, they were full of) ELEGIES, a sound and choreographic performance for the voice of a child and a group of traditional singers, for the MIR Festival - Athens. In 2021, the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon invites her to create a solo, LA VENERINA, for the dancer Elsa Monguillot. In 2022, she opens a new cycle of creations, Beauty Glow Tanning Studio. This cycle is made up of three episodes: Peeling Back (solo, creation 2023), Deep Deep Down Detox (installation-performance, 2023/2024), Wet Songs (collective piece 2025/2026).