Jean Michel Bruyère / LFKs








	vitaNONnova


PHOTOS		LFKs wished to establish in the time a series of creations investigating the link between America of the sixties and current segregated French cities. This series is entitled VitaNONnova (in reference to Dante) and will contain essentially three scenic and film works, carrying each the name of one of the leaders of the Black Panther Party, a revolutionary and reformist political movement, built in the energy of the riots of the sixties and disappeared at the beginning of the seventies, once the American black community better represented in the field of the traditional politics. Each approaches the history of the fight of the population of the American black ghettos under a different angle and with means andvery different mediums: theater and performance, opera, cinema and arts media. vitaNONnova is composed by: • *vNn #1 / Eldridge Cleaver* (2011-2013) Premiered on 28 September 2011 at Théâtre Garonne à Toulouse (FR) • vNn #2 / Une Situation Huey P. Newton - contemporary opera (2012) Premiered on 7 July 2012 at Festival d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence (FR), as part of Marseille-Provence 2013, European Capital of Culture. •*vNn #3 / Polyptych Bobby Seale* - Film in 4K resolution onto a giant screen, videos, exhibition and performances in a 50,000 square feet hall (2013) Premiered on 28 March 2013 at Grande Halle (Former French Railway plant) in Arles (FR) as part of Marseille-Provence 2013, European Capital of Culture vitaNONnova #3 / Bobby Seale is co-funded by the European Union • vitaNONnova #4 / Tribute to Fred Hampton (2013) Creation on 4 December 2013 at the University of Chicago (US) • vitaNONnova #5 / It's now, Baby! - application for IPAD (2013)