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L\u2019Alliance New York announces the New York City premiere of Mirlitons by Fran\u00e7ois Chaignaud and Aymeric Hainaux with performances on November 4-6, 2026 at 7:30PM at Le Skyroom, L’Alliance New York, 22 East 60th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY, 10022. Tickets start at $15 and can be purchased at https:\/\/lallianceny.org\/event\/mirlitons\/. <\/p>\n
\nWhat does\u00a0mirliton\u00a0mean? Depending on the context, a\u00a0mirliton\u00a0could be a kid\u2019s flute, a bad poem, an old French coin, a military hat, or a pastry. In this performance, it\u2019s an encounter between two voices and bodies: choreographer Fran\u00e7ois Chaignaud and beatboxer Aymeric Hainaux. The audience is presented with a total saturation of frequencies and muscles in this energetic performance, as the artists engage in a percussive duel. Through their voices, feet, arms, props and costumes, Chaignaud and Hainaux create a duet that is as uncategorizable as the word\u00a0mirliton. <\/p>\n
\nFran\u00e7ois Chaignaud graduated in 2003 from Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris ; he has worked with many choreographers (Alain Buffard, Boris Charmatz, Emmanuelle Huynh, Gilles Jobin). Since 2004, he has been a multidisciplinary artist \u2013 dancer, choreographer, singer, actor, historian and cabaret artist. His work was influenced very early on by the articulation between song and dance (\u0414\u0443\u043c\u0438 \u043c\u043e\u0457 DUMY MOYI, 2013), and it is also fueled by deep historical research \u2013 for Chaignaud\u2019s own pieces as well as for the many collaborative creations with artists such as J\u00e9r\u00f4me Marin, Marie-Caroline Hominal, or Th\u00e9o Mercier. <\/p>\n
\n\ufeffFrom 2005 to 2016, he created several pieces with Cecilia Bengolea, like\u00a0Sylphides\u00a0(2009), (M)IMOSA\u00a0(with Trajal Harrell and Marlene Monteiro Freitas, 2011) and\u00a0Dub Love\u00a0(2013). <\/p>\n
\nIn 2021, he founded mandorle productions, confirming his trajectory shaped by many collaborations. With Nina Laisn\u00e9, he created\u00a0Romances inciertos, un autre Orlando\u00a0(2017) and with Marie-Pierre Br\u00e9bant, he created\u00a0Symphonia Harmoni\u00e6 C\u00e6lestium Revelationum\u00a0(2019). In 2020, he co-created\u00a0GOLD SHOWER\u00a0with butoh icon Akaji Maro, as well as\u00a0Un Bolero\u00a0with Dominique Brun. His work also comprises group pieces: in 2018, he created\u00a0Soufflette\u00a0for the Norwegian Ballet Carte Blanche and in 2022\u00a0t u m u l u s, then\u00a0In absentia\u00a0in 2024 avec Geoffroy Jourdain (Les Cris de Paris). In 2023, he created\u00a0Cort\u00e8ges\u00a0with composer Sasha J. Blondeau and\u00a0Mirlitons\u00a0with beatboxer Aymeric Hainaux. In 2024 Chaignaud created\u00a0Petites\u00a0Joueuses\u00a0\u2013 a piece commissioned by the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre and the Festival d\u2019Automne \u00e0 Paris. In 2025, he created\u00a0\u00daltimo helecho\u00a0with Nina Laisn\u00e9 and Nadia Larcher. He was the focus feature of the Festival d\u2019Automne \u00e0 Paris in 2025. In 2026, Chaignaud was appointed director of the Centre Chor\u00e9graphique National de Caen en Normandie. <\/p>\n
\nWith his background in the visual arts, (he first turned to cartoon stip at the Beaux-arts d\u2019Angoul\u00eame, then to painting)\u00a0Aymeric Hainaux\u00a0is invested in a very personal approach to the human beatbox. He creates machine sounds so precise as the famous Roland TR909, and his incomparable technique makes him one of the prominent artists of this art. Hainaux \u201cplays what happens,\u201d and his performances are a music of the present instant, attentive to silence and movement. Without a loop pedal, but the use of a microphone, some bells, a harmonica, and sometimes a cassettes player, all exclusively played in real time. He has collaborated with Christine Quoiraud, Tanya Tagaq, Kenzo Kusuda, Oguri, Erik M, and Anne Lise Le Gac. In 2005, he began a solo tour by hitchhiking. This adventure lasted eight years during which he traveled 40,000 kilometers each year\u2014from Meknes to Copenhagen and from Tallin to Rome\u2014and staged 700 performances on three continents. With banjo player St\u00e9phane Barascud, in 2013, he created the music brut duo Cantenac Dagar, which proposed un rituel pour l\u2019invention d\u2019une sensibilit\u00e9 radicale (Sonic Protest festival, 2017). The group has released a dozen records, and this duo remains Hainaux\u2019s main musical project. The diversity of his projects also brings him to perform in the backrooms of restaurants and art venues. These include, in France, Mixart Myrys, the CND (Centre National de la Danse), Les Siestes \u00c9lectroniques, the Palais de Tokyo, and the Sonic Protest festival. His label Isola Records, which he has been running since 2011, makes books, cassettes, CDs and records of artists and groups working at the borders of concerts and performances. He also has a practice of poetic writing and publishing. In 2023, he contributed to the soundtrack for Cl\u00e9ment Cogitore\u2019s film\u00a0Goutte D\u2019or. <\/p>\n
\nBilling Credits Concept and Performance: Aymeric Hainaux & Fran\u00e7ois Chaignaud Artistic Collaboration: Sarah Chaumette Costume Design: Sari Brunel Lighting Design: Marinette Buchy Technical Managers: Marinette Buchy, Anthony Merlaud Sound Operator: Patrick Faubert International dissemination: APROPIC\u2013Line Rousseau\u2013Marion Gauvent <\/p>\n
\nProduction Credits Executive Production: Centre Chor\u00e9graphique National de Caen en Normandie Centre Chor\u00e9graphique National de Caen en Normandie is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture \u2013 Drac de Normandie, the Normandie region, the city of Caen, the department of Calvados, the department of Manche. Co-productions: MC93 \u2013Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, Festival d\u2019Automne \u00e0 Paris, Charleroi danse, centre chor\u00e9graphique de Wallonie -Bruxelles (BE), Maison de la Danse, Lyon \u2013P\u00f4le europ\u00e9en de cr\u00e9ation, Festival Next (FR \/ BE), Theater Rotterdam (NL), Triennale di Milano (IT), KunstFestSpieleHerrenhausenHannover(DE), Bonlieu Sc\u00e8ne nationale Annecy <\/p>\n
\nSupports: Espace Pasolini\/Laboratoire artistiqueValenciennes, La Villette, Paris \u2013Initiatives d\u2019Artistes, Malraux, sc\u00e8ne nationale de Chamb\u00e9ry Savoie, Les Aires \u2013Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Die et du Diois, sc\u00e8nes conventionn\u00e9es, d\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat national \u201cArt en territoire\u201d <\/p>\n
\nAcknowledgements: Balakumar, Edouard Prabhu, Prune Becheau <\/p>\n
\nL\u2019Alliance New York\u00a0is an independent, not-for-profit organization committed to providing its audience and students with engaging French language classes and audacious multi-disciplinary programming that celebrates the diversity of francophone cultures and creativity around the world. A welcoming and inclusive community for all ages and all backgrounds, L\u2019Alliance New York is a place where people can meet, learn, and explore the richness of our heritages and share discoveries. L\u2019Alliance New York strives to amplify voices and build bridges from the entire francophone world to New York and beyond. <\/p>\n
\nCrossing The Line\u00a0is a citywide festival that engages international artists and New York City audiences in artistic discovery and critical dialogue to re-imagine the world around us.\u00a0Crossing The Line\u00a0is produced by L\u2019Alliance New York in partnership with leading cultural institutions. <\/p>\n
\nSupport for Crossing The Line Air France, Howard Gilman Foundation, Wescustogo\u202fFoundation. L’Alliance\u202fNew York’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the Support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. <\/p>\n
\nSupport for\u00a0Mirlitons Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, Villa Albertine and the Albertine Foundation through the FUSED program <\/p>\n
Venue: Le Skyroom<\/p>\n