Polyester

A play with teenagers made of what constitutes them. Nans Laborde-Jourdàa accompanied by Margot Alexandre invite a group of young students to perform a fictional piece of writing on stage.

You'd think it was real testimony, but it's not: it's all fiction. If Nans Laborde-Jourdàa and Margot Alexandre take the time to meet with a group of young students a few weeks before the performances and interview them, it's to better fit them into the fiction the duo has written. Polyester features excerpts from a literary saga for teenage dance fans entitled Grand Studio. It tells the story of how Rosalia and Timothy meet. She is an apprentice dancer from São Paulo's upper middle class. He is a cleaner at the dance school where the action takes place, and discovers a gift for dance. These kitschy scenes, performed by Nans Laborde-Jourdàa and Margot Alexandre, are interwoven with testimonials from the youngsters about how Grand Studio has changed their lives, but also what it's like to grow up in Aubervilliers. The literary saga, which takes up the codes of teen literature, becomes a pretext for staging how art can reach us and what relationship to the book-object adolescence maintains.