STRIP
Les Idoles
Halfway between a cabinet of curiosities and a dissection table, STRIP is a workshop of collective metamorphoses. Les Idoles collective draws on body horror, queer narratives and cyborg thought to imagine a chemistry of bodies at work. Skin stretches, matter seeps, identities blur into one great shared anatomy. Physical, plastic, sonic performance: a skin-deep experience that celebrates the instability of the living.
Biographie(s)
Les Idoles
Chandra Grangean and Lise Messina founded Les Idoles in 2022.
The collective Les Idoles is part of the LA FEAT platform.
Chandra Grangean is a choreographer of French-Venezuelan origin. She trained in contemporary dance at the CRR in Paris and then at the CNSMD in Lyon. She has collaborated as a performer with various choreographers, including Ambra Senatore, La Fabrique Fastidieuse, Ali Moini, Le Pole, Maud Le Pladec, Maguy Marin, and Solène Wachter.
Lise Messina trained in contemporary dance at the CNSMD in Lyon and then at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen, Germany. At the same time, she earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Paris Nanterre, followed by a master’s degree in Dramaturgy from the ENS in Lyon. As part of this program, she completed an internship with Lia Rodrigues at Maré (Rio de Janeiro) before joining the Maguy Marin Company as a dancer. She performs with the Maguy Marin Company and with Leïla Ka.
Distribution
Concept: Les Idoles - Music and sound design: Anaïs Cabandé / final section in collaboration with Alban Mercier and Martin Malatray Ravit - Set design, spatial design, and lighting design: Johanna Thomas - Performers: Anaïs Cabandé, Tom Grand Mourcel, Joachim Maudet, Alaïs Marzouvanlian, Chloé Zamboni, Lise Messina, and Chandra Grangean (rotating cast) - Dramaturgical consultation: Lisa Martinez and Pauline Bigot - Sound and Technical Coordination: Martin Malatray-Ravit
Costume Design: Lucie Grand Mourcel - Stage Manager: Jules Bourret - Mixing and Mastering: Alban Mercier - Production and Distribution: Elise Remy and Mélanie Garrabos - Administration: Elise Remy
Action(s) spécifique(s)
Hoods Flakes Party, DJ Set, Saturday, October 17 at 9:00 p.m.
The DJs from the Hood Flakes collective are coming to the theater to turn the Galerie hall into a dance floor and close out the Transforme festival. Ready to party ? Come as you are.
Echoing STRIP, Les Idoles earlier duet REFACE travels off-site: February 25 at Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Through a series of workshops, Les Idoles collective is exploring the art of transformation with students from Sorbonne Nouvelle University and the DNMADE program at Adolphe Chérioux High School. These ephemeral metamorphoses, at the intersection of the body and space, will be preserved through the art of photography
Production
STRIP premiered on March 25, 2026, at the CNDC in Angers
Produced by La Feat
With support from the Hermès Corporate Foundation
Co-produced by La Maison and the Biennale de la danse, Lyon - European Center for Creation; Boom’Structur CDCN Clermont-Ferrand · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes; Danse Dense; CNDC - Angers; POLE-SUD, CDCN Strasbourg; La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, National Theater; Agora, Cité internationale de la Danse | Montpellier Danse + CCN Occitanie; The National Choreographic Center of Grenoble; The National Choreographic Center of Orléans; The Les Petites Scènes Ouvertes network, with sponsorship from the Caisse des dépôts.
Support for experimental projects from Ramdam, an art center
Support from DRAC - Auvergne - Rhône - Alpes, the Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes, Adami as part of its support for creation
Studio loan: La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne, Le Point Éphémère – Paris, KLAP Maison pour la danse, Espaço do Tempo, L’Assemblée – artistic hub / Cie du Bonhomme Lyon, the DCA Company in Saint-Denis
Théâtre de la Cité internationale × Fondation d'entreprise Hermès
