FROZENMolière for Young Audiences 2023
Comédie-Française - Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier
Based on Hans Christian Andersen | Directed by Johanna Boyé | Choreography by Johan Nus | Music by Mehdi Bourayou
CRÉATION 2022 | On stage 2022 | 2023 | 2024
This creation is an opportunity to return to Andersen's original story: Gerda and Kay are inseparable playmates until the day when, wounded by two shards of a broken mirror, the young boy undergoes a change of character and becomes hot-tempered. He then disappears, kidnapped by the mysterious Snow Queen. With no news of him, Gerda decides to embark on a journey around the world in search of her beloved brother...
My Intentions
In Frozen, the dance aims to be both narrative and dreamlike. It is never gratuitous but always based on a purpose or situation. There are major numbers called "Choreographed Songs" such as the Trolls' air, the brigands' number, or the rose duet between Gerda and Kay. There is also the implementation of a more everyday language, like the encounter path where characters glide on ice.
Additionally, a more contemporary style is incorporated through the use of sign language for Kay's gestural calculation.
Movement aids in the fluidity of magical effects and theatrical actions. The important thing, as I mentioned, is to have movement in service of the narrative.
EST-CE QUE J'AI UNE GUEULE D'ARLETTY ?2 Molières, including Best Musical Theatre
Play by Éric Bu, Elodie Menant | Directed by Johanna Boyé | Choreography by Johan Nus | Music by Mehdi Bourayou
CRÉATION 2019 | On stage 2020 | 2021 | 2022
Four actors bring to life 35 characters, each one funnier and more endearing than the other. They dance, sing, and immerse us in a contagious euphoria through the true, fascinating, and inspiring story of Léonie Bathiat. Accompanied by three actors and a musician, she takes us to her home in Courbevoie, then to the music hall, theater, and cinema. We traverse the Belle Époque, World War I, the Roaring Twenties. We sing, we dance, everything is aglow, a whirlwind of success, a triumph over her past and a modest life, guided by one thing: freedom!...
My Intentions
In this work, dance helps create connections between the different characters, both in love and camaraderie. It respects the style of the era, including the Charleston, tap numbers, and grand chanson performances...
JE NE COURS PAS JE VOLE5 nominations at the Molières 2023
Play by Elodie Menant | Directed by Johanna Boyé | Choreography by Johan Nus
CRÉATION 2020 | French Tour 2023 | 2024
Twenty-three characters for six actors excel on the athletics track, within the family circle, or under the spotlight of the Games. Laure Manaudou, Nadal, or Bolt are invited to tell their stories of self-improvement, discouragement, and victories.
My intentions
The narrative of sports unfolds through dance. How can one show the muscular and dreamlike work of running when the mind surpasses the physical, when running in its momentum transcends its own reality? For this creation, I relied on the physical qualities of the performers while resonating with the story of their multiple characters.
Press reviews...
★★★★ A rhythmic tale. A lively, funny, and sensitive show.
Le Parisien
The play overflows with strong emotions, featuring very precise staging, brilliant choreography, and the direction of the talented director Johanna Boyé.
Le Point
Virtuoso actor-dancers, an ode to an inspiring life.
Franck Ferrand | CNews
L'INVENTION DE NOS VIES
Adaptation of the eponymous novel by Karine Tuil | Adaptation by Johanna Boyé et Leslie Menahem | Directed by Johanna Boyé | Choreography by Johan Nus
CRÉATION 2022 | Avignon 2022 | Théâtre Rive Gauche 2022/2023
With a lie, one can go very far, but not come back..."
When Sam Tahar took on the identity of Samuel, his former best friend, to go to New York and pursue a brilliant career at a prestigious law firm, marry the daughter of the main partner, and thus integrate one of the most powerful Jewish families in the country, he did not imagine that his past as a rebellious, violent child from the suburbs, without direction or future, would cross the ocean to catch up with him and reveal the fragile house of cards of his existence, in which he believed he was safe...
My intentions
From the first scenes, we are purely in the energy of traditional dance.
THE MOUSETRAPMolière 2020 Révélation Masculine
Author Agatha Christie | Adaptation Pierre-Alain Leleu | Directed by Ladislas Chollat | Choreography by Johan Nus
CRÉATION 2020 | La Pépinière Théâtre | French Tour
London. A murder has just been committed... Meanwhile, the emotional Mollie and the ordinary Giles Ralston open a guesthouse in the countryside near London... As a snowstorm immobilizes them with their 5 lodgers... the meticulous Inspector Trotter informs them that the murderer is among them.
Thus rises the curtain on the greatest success of the queen of crime, Agatha Christie. Written for Queen Mary's 80th birthday, The Mousetrap has been running continuously in London since 1952.
Press reviews...
★★★★ A delightful and tremendously joyful version.
Le Parisien
A comical joviality... It enchants audiences from 7 to 77.
Elle
A mischievous adaptation with uninhibited humor, and a careful cast: one leaves with a smile on their face from this delightful murderous trap.
Les Échos
Remarkable.
Le Figaro
LES FILLES AUX MAINS JAUNESMolière 2023 Nominee for Best Female Revelation
Author Michel Bellier | Directed by Johanna Boyé | Sound universe by Mehdi Bourayou | Set design by Olivier Prost | Choreography by Johan Nus
CRÉATION Avignon 2020 | Théâtre Rive Gauche | French tour 2022 | 2023
men, will have to confront the world of work and endure the injustice reserved for women. But in this seemingly frightening universe, exchange, solidarity, and the possibility of having an opinion emerge. Louise, a militant journalist for the suffragettes, embarks on a libertarian journey that questions each of her friends and offers them a new vision of Woman: independent and free.
A powerful and sensitive play about the birth of feminism, the power of commitment, and the strength of action!
My intentions
The dance captures the daily movement of women in the factory. It is intended to be mechanical, percussive, and physical... We observe, wash, and rub these hands that are tinged with yellow.
ALL MAD
Directed by Alex Goude | Music by Raphaël Sanchez | Choreography by Johan Nus
CRÉATION 2013 | Palais des Glaces | French tour
Just before the arrival of an apocalyptic storm, a provincial pharmacy brings together a smooth-talking pharmacist and his gullible assistant, a saleswoman whose teeth scratch the floor, and a stranger with horns touching the ceiling, a seductive rapping priest, and a classy mother-in-law who goes off the rails.
Everyone believes they are safe in this ultra-secure store because no one knows that the real cyclone is inside and goes by the sweet name... Marie-Louise.
LA GRANDE MUSIQUE
Author Stéphane Guérin | Directed by Salomé Villiers | Set design by Georges Vauraz | Music by Raphaël Sanchez | Choreographic Support by Johan Nus
CRÉATION 2022 | Comédie Bastille | 2022 | 2023
From a wedding ball to a television studio, from Munich to Mauthausen, six characters will try to decipher the secrets of their family drama through psycho-genealogy.
Between the present and the past, between Austria and France, Marcel, Nelly, Georges, Esther, Pierre, and Hervé attempt to piece together the scattered fragments of the same puzzle.
And what is this great music that sends shivers down the spine and can simultaneously bring beings together?
The body has a memory that we are not always aware of.
THE LADY FROM MAXIM'S2 nominations at the Molières 2018
Author Georges Feydeau | Adaptation by Johanna Boyé & Pamela Ravassard | Directed by Johanna Boyé | Set design by Jeanne Boujenah | Choreography by Johan Nus
CRÉATION 2017 | Théâtre Actuel | Théâtre 12 ï Théâtre Rive Gauche
The Lady from Maxim's is Feydeau's longest and most important play, with a gallery of twenty-seven characters. The great success of the play lies in the variety of portraits painted by Feydeau, as well as in his incredibly effective writing. This choral piece still resonates today because it presents a tableau of the manners and concerns that agitate a bourgeoisie very concerned with appearances and comfort, but willing to do anything to indulge in pleasure. The Lady from Maxim's also plays with clichés and the divide between Paris and the provinces. Johanna Boyé and Paméla Ravassard have adapted this farce for only seven actors and a musician, who, in a burlesque ballet, will interpret all the characters.
The press...
Here is a little gem of Feydeau to be savored immediately! It is wonderfully crafted, even unraveled, unhinged, with a touch of madness, solidly choreographed and sung!
Vaucluse Matin
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
Based on Conan Doyle | Adaptation by Miren Pradier & Gwen Aduh | Directed by Gwen Aduh | Choreography by Johan Nus
CRÉATION 2023 | Théâtre 13e Art
the most naive souls. Once upon a time, there was the vengeance of a terrifying beast with red eyes that spewed fire. Once upon a time, there were six actors who would embody the 15 characters from Conan Doyle's famous novel, as well as a monstrous dog, the horrific killer from Scream, and perhaps other characters!
Once upon a time, there was The Hound of the Baskervilles.
