Concerts and Performances

After the OFF Festival in Avignon, the Musicales de Bagatelle and La Cité des Congrès in Nantes, the musical show It’s always a hit! is always ready to hit the road.

IN SHORT

A modern, epicurean and unhinibited young women, heroin of « C’est toujours ça de pris ! » enjoys with innocence the tiny pleasures of life. Her philosophy ? Find pleasure where it stands… at the risk of burning one’s wing ! with prankishness and humour, Vanessa Hidden depicts sketches of today’s life, with songs of the old days that have withstood the test of time … for a sparkling, tender and light musical show that brings together nostalgia and modernity.

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Thank you to the numerous kisskissbankbankers that have supported our project « C’est toujours ça de pris ! » (“well at least that’s something !”) for the Off Festival at d’Avignon 2014.

A show created and produced by the French Company Paris Broadway Saigon.

Artistic Team

Vanessa Hidden (Voice), Stéphanie Fontanarosa and Tristan Michel (Keyboard, alternately) Stéphane Ly-Cuong (Director) and Jef Castaing (Stylism).

It is a participatory performance that deals with a concert as a piece of art. Mixing music, theatre and plastic arts.

The sound installation is dedicated to being performed in a particular space: museum, patrimonial space, hallway, outside spaces, …

In this museum space, musicians are being displayed standing still and silent, waiting for a visitor to activate them thanks to a buzzer linked to a remote control.

Musical Program: Folk Songs by Luciano Berio, for solo singing a little instrumental ensemble.

For this first edition, five artists are brought together around the themes of movement, music, transversality in the words of the author Carole Fives. His miniature texts are the starting point of creation.

The arts represented are: music through voice and guitar, dance, theater and visual art.

Dialogue #5’s purpose is the creation, the dialog between art mediums and the real time spontaneous compositions, directed by the words of the author always underlying in the places chosen.
The creation process and its successive steps are honored and observed in Dialogue #5.

Photos Basile Crespin

This creation is supported by « le Grand Narbonne », the « Conservatoire à Rayonnement Département », the « École d’Arts Plastiques », the « Salon du Livre » and the « Maison des Arts de Bages».

Artistic team for the first edition

(from left to right): Thomas Abecassis, Estelle Torras, Guillaume Vellard, Andrée Benchetrit, Vanessa Hidden

A contemporary art exhibition carrying the concept of “Résonance” (Resonance).

The artists dialog together and exhibit their resonances: wood sculpture, paintings and numerical artworks, vocal creations, calligraphies, poems and drawings.

In this creation, Vanessa Hidden addresses the themes of the myth of Nausicaa, the dance of reality, human relationships between mother and child, beauty and the beast, siblings, the relationship of woman to her womb and its body.

In this research around the idea of Resonances, Vanessa offers a sung performance for solo voice a cappella.

His vocal creations are composed in French.

Photos © Hachel

After a tumultuous career punctuated by the most diverse projects and collaborations, both artistically and educationally, Alex launched his own musical adventure in the spring of 2020, the one he has always been nursing within himself : ALEX AUGÉ + …, project with variable geometries, starting from solo to format « + 9 », passing by the « Alex Augé + 2 » trio , and this « + 4 » formula.

The music goes beyond genres, only defining itself by itself. Fooded by all the influences and experiences of the musician who, as if not to have to choose, offers different versions which make the subject evolve… Unclassifiable in essence, it develops in a lively interaction: the group serves a continually united and contributory sound project.

Alex Augé + 4 © Vivien Raynal

Saxophonist Alex Augé stood out with his Solipsies where the effects of the multiple sound tracks worked live and the superimpositions of sounds and rhythms made his performance a great moment in today’s music.

Franck Garcia and his keyboards bewitched the public in the company of Stéphanie Fontanarosa during a magnetic journey devoted to works by Ligeti, Adams, Wyatt.

Brought together by the festival for this creation, the two artists crossed their sensibilities and their universes, merging languages ​​and writings.

Surrounded by opera singer Vanessa Hidden, drummer Robinson Rouquet and pianist Stéphanie Fontanarosa, they invite us to a concert dressed in lights and video images.

The unexpected encounter of borderless musical styles and poetry to go with the flow of “Cascades” a trio performing electro jazz songs.
Three artists mix their artistic universes on the lyrics and music of Vanessa Hidden.

Their influences: french song, improvised jazz music, Afro-Latin percussion, lyrical voice and electro hues.

“Vanessa is a singer, songwriter and songwriter who has performed all over the world. Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Michel Legrand looked at the cradle of Cascades. His finely chiseled texts in French lead us into a dreamlike universe, vocalizations rub shoulders with jazz fusion, giving free rein to the improvisational qualities of the musicians.”

Armelle Cozic

“Sand in the wind… the voice of the bewitching Vanessa Hidden, summons our hearts, capsizes our states of mind… Floats in her Cascades the rhythm of her poetry between the breath of a November night and the ode to the women Sister… She sings I’m coming and we can’t wait to open this door to listen to her. Run there!”

Patricia Padovani

TEAM CASCADES

Artists on stage Vanessa Hidden, voice, Rémi Ploton, Keyboard/machines or Adlane Aliouche, Keyboard/machines, Nazim Aliouche, percussions/guitar

Recording and mix Studio 4 vents Narbonne, France, Guilhem Verger

Mastering Cochise Studio Nashville, Cochise Genet

Stylism Jef Castaing – Fanchette et Papillon

Graphic design and cover picture Laure Bagnol

Translation into sign language *on the song Pigeon Bertille Charlot

Video and clip directors Hachel, Stéphane Ly-Cuong and Sunside Jazz Club Paris

Production Art Rhésus

Discover the music and all the videos of Cascades

Cascades is Selection 2021: « one summer/100 shows for the Aude Department» with the support of the Aude Department in collaboration with Arts Vivants 11 (department agency for performing art)