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Actors
Yovan Gilles, Federica Bertelli, Jérémie Piolat
Chorus
Anne Calvel, Tessa Polak, Kathrin Ruchay, Christopher Yggdre
Artistic Director : Marc'O
Musical Director : Jean-Charles François
Communication Director : Cristina Bertelli
1953. MARC'O's film CLOSED VISION is presented at the Cannes Film Festival by Cocteau and Bunuel. He then founds and heads the American Center Theater School in Paris, where he collaborates with percussionist, pianist, soloist and composer JEAN-CHARLES FRANÇOIS, who studied at the Paris Conservatorium and with Australian composer Keith Humble.
Marc'O writes and directs 15 plays, strongly influencing the French theater of the 60's and 70's. He introduces music as the fundamental component of theatrical expression, giving birth to what is called today Musical Theater. The "theater of Marc'O" rests primarily upon the creative potential of the actors and their interactive potential within an open group. Creation being foremost the set up of a space, dynamics and technics of creativity. In 1966, Marc'O's musical play LES IDOLES (and later its screen adaptation) is a great critical and public success. From 1966-69, François co-directs the American Center Music School. After the events of May 1968, Marc'O moves to Italy where he directs a Dramatic Event GUERRA E CONSUMI, several films, and is active in the social struggles of the time. Génération Chaos' members are born then, in between the end of the 60's and the end of the 70's. In 1969, Jean-Charles François leaves Europe, becoming principal percussionist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Australia until 1971.
Marc'O directs theater pieces and the Rock-Opera FLASH ROUGE in France in the late 70's, while François goes on to teach at the University of California, San Diego, where he co-founds experimental improvisation and worldwide touring group KIVA in 1975. 1980-82: François directs the UCSD Center for Music Experiment, and chairs its Music Department from 1983-86.
In Paris, Marc'O completes a theoretical/practical study for I.N.A/Institut National de l'Audiovisuel on the new image, using the electronic equipment available in the late 70's.
Marc'O begins collaborating with CRISTINA BERTELLI, art gallery owner in Italy. Bertelli creates in Rome the COMMUNICATION department at CISI, the Italian Center for Studies and Surveys. Its goal : facilitate researches and projects for a culture in harmony with the new modes of production derived from new technologies. French President François Mitterand listens to Marc'O's ideas on the artistic uses of the new technologies, from which emerges the government-backed project PIXIGRAF : New Technologies of the Image. Marc'O holds Conferences (Italian Deputy Chamber : New Image, industrial and cultural problems, usage of new technologies in the domain of the image,) exhibits of his work (Paris' Centre Pompidou in 1985 : 3D image, artistic and technological problems..., a 10 cities Italian tour organized by Bertelli), and participates to International Congresses (in Bologne : scientific and artistic concept, Worked Revisited with Carlo de Benediti, Anatol Hot, Umberto Eco, George Lucas, John Mac Carty and the Italian minister of Work, Machination at the Massenzio Film Festival with philosophers, scientists and artists, among them Guattari and Virilio). Next is a practical/theoretical study of advanced communication : Industrial Mutation, A new culture ? Problems of the Moving Image Media. He studies the transformation of the organization of work in the moving image media using new technologies and its social consequences, the union in a same space of production, research and training, autofinancing and returns in a process based on a new type of synergy, the new know-hows and professions, image-spectacle and image-symbol. Using these researches, Marc'O and Bertelli reorganize the TV department of the second Italian press agency AG.
The young members of Génération Chaos study music (classical, jazz, rock'n'roll), dance and cinema, philosophy and litterature in various universities around Europe, or skip school altogether. They become increasingly desillusionned with their teachers, their elders and their times. In the early 90's, both Marc'O and Jean-Charles François are back in France, with the same difficulties in working with "normal" professional theater people and musicians, and sharing similar ideas about the current crisis of the art world - and the world. In 1991, Marc'O writes and directs in Paris the musical play GÉNÉRATION CHAOS 1, first part of a trilogy, for the three young people, Yovan Gilles, Federica Bertelli, Jérémie Piolat, who came to him asking for a play that would deal with the situation of youth today. Soon, they are joined by a group of young musicians, students, unemployed youth. In 1992, Marc'O and Cristina Bertelli found the Laboratoire du Changement in Paris. GÉNÉRATION CHAOS is performed across Europe starting 1994, with Marc'O serving as its stage director and François as its musical director. The group expands, with researches and activities now reaching across Europe.
François's articles have been published in a number of magazines, including Percussive Notes Research Edition, and his compositions are published by Smith Publications. His 1991 book Percussion et Musique Contemporaine is published by Klincksieck, Paris.
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