a k entrepôt and Laurance Henry
Established in Brittany in France, a k entrepôt is directed by Laurance Henry, set designer, visual artist and stage director.
Sitting down, discovering an empty space and completely transforming it from nothing into a playground, a place full of laughter or full of tears. Making it into something else, something new : a garden, a castle, a bedroom, a boat, the sea… using whatever comes into your head and letting your imagination ran wild. Childhood is a time where playing with 3 bricks can make you a builder, a pirate or even a princess where regards are great, emotions are strong and love is eternal. Each creation is based on this period of my life like a constant starting point.
In this noisy period, I demand silence.
During this period of time that requires full, immediate and formatted answers ; I demand abstraction, clearness also hollowness but above all for young people. For these beings in the making : helping them, giving them a choice, freedom and the possibility to open a door that could surprise them, a door to the unknown.
Laurance Henry
Workshops
In addition to our shows, Laurance Henry, the artistic director of a k entrepôt, offers workshops upon scenography and the relationship between visual arts, drama and dance.
teNir / to hoLd — creation autumn 2024
Dance from 2 years old
An empty cube
Some spools of thread
A dancer
She is inside, outside
She becomes a weaver, a maker, a graphic artist
She searches, makes, unrolls, unmakes
She builds with, around, above, below
An imprint of herself
A place of your own, to inhabit the world
and to hoLd on it.
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Our hands – creation 2026
an impromptu dance performance
• An impromptu, short piece accessible to all audiences.
• A stroll that allows visitors to discover works through the hands represented in drawings, paintings, and sculptures.
• A piece created in situ in and for museums.
• A performance accessible to all.
• Lasting 15 to 20 minutes, it can be performed 3 to 4 times.
• Several hollow black frames of different sizes punctuate the stroll. They construct the scenographic space. It is from these frames that the proposal is made, that the eyes of young and old spectators discover the works.
• An invitation to discover, to look at what we rarely or never see in paintings and sculptures: hands.
• A proposal for our eyes and hands, invited to join in the movement of the dancer and the works on display.
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ce que je veux dire / what I want to say — creation 2023
Theatre / Dance from 13 years old
3 performers to make this generous, powerful, disturbing, violent, sensitive teenage polyphony heard with and without words
Adolescents have so much to say, so much to share about themselves and the world, and so much to keep quiet. Chaotic, musical, continuous, clashing, the adolescent voice is singular, wild and precious. It clashes with others, with expectations, with adult discourse. Verbal as much as corporeal, imagined as much as silent, it says the world… but do we hear it?
mOts premiers / first wOrds — creation 2021
Theatre / Dance from 3 years old
«mOts premiers» brings together two performers, two men: the first Harrison Mpaya an actor, the second, Jordan Malfoy, is a contemporary dancer, he came to dance through hip-hop, the combined experience of the ground, the street, the battles.
Each of them already has its own language, languages, practice and experience. In «mOts premiers», in reference to MerleauPonty, each one tries to return to the original speech, to unravel the knowledge to find the wonder, the astonishment, the freshness
of the beginning.
Each tries to communicate with the other, to find a common territory by releasing what was acquired. Where to start?
« mOts premiers » is intended for early childhood from the age of 3.
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cubeSs — creation 2021
Street dance – All audiences
cubeSs explores breaker dancer Jordan Malfoy’s relationship with this geometric shape: attraction, mimicry, boundaries, overcoming… all themes addressed in this solo, designed to be performed in the public space in a highly porous way with the here and now – the inside and outside.
CONTACT – PRODUCTION AND TOUR MANAGER
Laurène Blanckaert
production@akentrepot.fr
+ 33 (0)6 09 17 39 15