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FEMME FACADE

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About Me

I am a performer, director, maker of theatre, live art, cabaret, film and half of NOBLESSE OBLIGE (that's my band!) . I am French but spent half my life in London and made my Berlin theatrical debut at The Hebbel Theatre. I trained with Phillippe Gaulier. I performed with Pacitti Company, Marisa Carnesky, Clod Ensemble, Gary Stevens, Joshua Sofaer, La Ribot, Song Theatre. I have hosted cabaret nights at the Whoopee Club and Hoxton Bark (London).

My Interests

Music, Performance, Dance, Theatre, Film, Live Art, Food/Cooking, Vintage clothes, Beauty

I'd like to meet:

Other performers for collaboration, any one involved in theatre, performance, live art, film, event/festival/party organisers

Music:

NOBLESSE OBLIGE

Movies:

Persona (Bergman), Last Year in Marienbad (Resnais), Ordet (Dreyer),Quien Sabe? A Bullet for the General (Damiano Damiani), Surviving Desire/Trust (Hal Hartley), Boom (Losey), Brazil (Gillian), Clockwork Orange (Kubrick), The Damned (Visconti), Snatch (Ritchie) El Topo (Jodorosky), Incubus, Salon Kitty (Tinto Brass), Donnie Darko, Peeping Tom (Powell), Cable Guy, Excess luggage

Television:

Arte

Books:

All the short stories by Stefan Zweig, Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost, plays by Tenessee Williams, Pinter, Sarah Kane/ Crave, Italo Calvino/ The Adventure of a Photographer, Dostoevski/White Nights, Edward Albee/Zoo story, Barbara Kruger/ Love for sale, Alfred de Musset, Andre Gide

Heroes:

Christopher Walken

My Blog

IF DYING WAS EASY / WHO IS FEMME FACADE ?

It's a different femme.A different façade.Every time.Multiple facets, ever changing aspects, adapting, morphing, playing.Repeating patterns.Different, every time. The same always.Very personal.Exposed...
Posted by FEMME FACADE on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:09:00 PST

I WAS A HUNDRED YEARS OLD (text written by Valerie Renay for her performance with Angelina)

You. Yes. You. Have you ever wondered... Why? Why?Have you ever asked yourself... Why?Why me?Suddenly it doesn't matter.It doesn't matter.It doesn't matter if you're big or small, it doesn't matter if...
Posted by FEMME FACADE on Sat, 31 May 2008 01:19:00 PST

TOXIC PEOPLE (written by Valerie Renay for a solo performance)

To be heldKissedPassionatelyCaressedBittenScratchedDevouredTo be lovedTo beLucky, aren't IFriends, family.A lover maybe.But there are words in my head.Feelings on my skin.Those things, I can't tell yo...
Posted by FEMME FACADE on Sat, 31 May 2008 02:36:00 PST

50 SWANS OR SO (TEXT WRITTEN BY VALERIE RENAY FOR A SOLO PERFORMANCE)

(Laughing, crazy, extreme, possibly drunk, walking on stage holding an old fashion red telephone. Freezes, looking down)I find it hard to look at people.The smell of the city at night.Things can be so...
Posted by FEMME FACADE on Sat, 31 May 2008 03:10:00 PST

DON'T SAY NO TO ME

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXltCBmWVJo Berlin 2008 Extract from 'Crave' by Sarah Kane, performed and directed by Valerie Renay aka Femme facade...
Posted by FEMME FACADE on Sat, 31 May 2008 09:58:00 PST