[Report] Le Bruit du Blé – 2 days in October with Gaël Faure at the Maison de la Poésie

Back on the performance of the Bruit du Blé, tribute paid by Gaël Faure to Jean Giono, on Monday, October 19 at the Maison de la Poésie.

When you are Parisian and your eternal dream of a little piece of garden has never been stronger than with the appearance of Covid, it is also to feel revived than to return to enjoy, within the walls of the Maison de la Poésie, a live show.

To be simply crossed by words, to vibrate under the notes of a guitar and a haunting voice, to be described a world through two voices that answer each other.

This is the first thank you that we want to address to Gaël Faure and his stage companion Nicolas Martel , who offered us Monday evening a delicate, sensitive and tragic expression of texts chosen from the work of Jean Giono.

It is the figure of the peasant who will open the ball of this exploration. In texts and danced movements, we are immersed in the choreographed suffering of bodies that wear out working the earth, in that of souls who struggle to find the simplicity of joy.

Against a backdrop of furrows, plains or cracked hands, the two actors give each other the line to talk about a tragic subject, the only one that is essential: that of our condition. The dance movements, discussions, notes and silences are orchestrated to perfection. From time to time, Gaël picks up his guitar and we hear Siffler, Ereuté, Le Colibri, Traverse l'Hiver (from the album Regain) which take place naturally between these slices of life told behind closed doors.

The second thank you we would like to address to them is to continue, in this beautiful proposal, to bring to life the literature of great writers like Jean Giono.Whether we know the writer well or not, this tribute touches us by its universality and truth.

And when we know that for Jean Giono the essential, for Man, is to face his mortal condition in this world, and that he considers that Society invented entertainment to avoid facing it, the Show here is a conscious spectacle that reminds us of our condition, of our relationship to nature but also to our nature.

We only regret not having been able to extend this moment, curfew obliges!

Photo credit: Logan Dechessy

Replay of the October 20 performance