January 28—February 7, 2026
Dance, performance, visual arts
Festival of international emerging artistic practices
Marseille and Aix-en-Provence
Marseille and Aix-en-Provence
Romy Alizée & Vivian Allard
Sainte randonnée
2024
Sainte Randonnée begins with a new eponymous text, written by Romy Alizée in 2023 for the art magazine Censored. After collaborating on the musical documentary C(h)œur de sex worker (L’expérience, France Culture, 2024), Romy and musician Vivant Allart/Plus petit que trois team up once again. They imagined the staging and music for the text, seeking to create a hybrid form drawing from both performance and musical theatre.
During this ascent through a hallucinatory mountain irrigated with fluids, Romy confronts a vertigo with multiple resonances. But is vertigo merely the fear of falling? Combining reading, singing, and video, Sainte Randonnée sits on the border of modern fairy tale, where humor and self-mockery nestle in the interstices of highly visual writing, sometimes disarmingly naïve and sincere. Through their Disney-princess-like voice, Romy sings as much about the desire for pleasure as the fantasy of death, exploring more broadly our relationship to human impulses, personal paradoxes, and risk.
Plus petit que trois’s compositions walk a fine line between seriousness and irony, with raw, all-in pieces that amplify the emotions, dissonances, and disarming candor of the text. The result is eclectic, at times drawing on the weight of Nino Rota’s compositions, while also passing through the soundtrack of Peau d’âne, yé-yé pop, and Sonic Youth.
Biographies
A self-taught artist trained in theatre, Romy Alizée creates often collaborative works combining photography, performance, singing, film, radio, and writing, centered on subjects intimately connected to their life. Their photographs have been exhibited at La Nuit de l’Année during the Rencontres d’Arles, at the Rencontres de la Jeune Photographie in Niort, and are featured in a new book: Des choses que j’imagine (Rotolux Press). Currently, Romy is exploring the porous connections between eroticism and mountains through several projects, including Sainte Randonnée and Les sentiers du vertige, a radio work in development for France Culture.
Vivian Allard, also known as Plus petit que trois, is a musician, composer, and sound engineer. He is originally from Brussels and has returned there after spending 10 years in Paris, where he studied jazz bass and drums at IMEP. A multi-instrumentalist, he is primarily interested in composition and arrangement. In the past, he played bass in the band Lomboy and was part of the group/collective Le Colisée. Vivian is also a member of the multidisciplinary artist collective Fortune Collective, active in Brussels, Paris, and Marseille.
Crédits
Distribution
Concept, direction, and performance: Romy Alizée & Vivian Allard
Text and video: Romy Alizée
Musical composition: Vivian Allard
Costumes and set design: Anna Tarissan
Lighting design: Abigail Fowler
External consultation: Bilou & Neysa May Barnett
Residencies: Montévidéo (Marseille), La Soulane (Jézeaux)
Support
Cheville × Point Éphémère program
Premiered on
December 2024 at Point Éphémère, Paris
Photo
© Romy Alizée
