Nannto Nannto
Photo: François Schmitt
Nora ARMANI and Aya SAKAKIBARA
A body, a violoncello. The chance meeting of an actress and a musician, brought together by one presence. Who teaches who to speak or to sing? With music and the spoken word, poetry becomes music and music evokes poetry. When the emotion of each word passes on to the cello and when its sounds go through the soul of her who speaks, Babylon is revisited through its languages. When world languages mix their words speaking of exile and love across countries and continents in one and the same voice, the stage fulfils its true purpose.
Sophie Demichel after seeing Nannto Nannto
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Nannto, Nannto
Nora ARMANI Aya SAKAKIBARA
Auditorium Santa Margherita-Venezia
11 Agosto 2000
Programme
| Ryojyo (Voyage) | Sakutaro HAGIWARA |
| Haiku(Selection) | BASHO et ISSA |
| Meeting you at the UG Station | Gillian ALLNUT |
| Ton souvenir (Koo Hishadagt) | Vahan TEKEYAN |
| Canzone d'amore (Siro Yerk) | Missak MEDZARENTS |
| Il disent que ce chemin | Anonyme |
| Tourist | Muhammad AL-MAGHUT |
| Noyau de puche | Nahapet KUTCHAK |
| Ghazaliyat (Lama Gaa Alhobbu) | Nahapet KUTCHAK |
| Silence (Andjadoum) | Paruir SEVAK |
| My Country (Memleketimi Seviyorum) | Nazim HIKMET |
| Je suis armenien (Yes hay yem) | Gevorg EMIN |
| C'est idiot | Anna AKHMATOVA |
| Cheri, ne froisse pas ma lettre | Anna AKHMATOVA |
| We Don't Know How to Say | Anna AKHMATOVA |
| Je n'ai pas eu de lettre | Anna AKHMATOVA |
| Writer's Block | Gevorg EMIN |
| Ce n'est pas ton amour | Anna AKHMATOVA |
| Ya Piou (The Last Toast) | Anna AKHMATOVA |
| La lumière du soir | Anna AKHMATOVA |
| Je pars en quittant cette | Hiroshi SEKINE |
| Bir Yolculuk üstüne (On a Journey) | Nazm HIKMET |
| Absence (Rusu) | Shinkishi TAKAHASHI |
Musiche
| "Sonata for Solo Violoncello" | George CRUMB |
| Suite IV for Violoncello Solo "Sarabande" | J. S. BACH |
| "Improvisations" | Aya SAKAKIBARA |
Nora ARMANI, Aya SAKAKIBARA
Aya left her native Japan with her violoncello, a small suitcase
full of musical scores and her favourite stuffed animals.
Nora had two trunks.
One filled with the Pyramids from her native Egypt,
the other with Mount Ararat from her ancestral land.
But with no money to pay for excess baggage,
she could only carry them in her heart.
They met in Montmartre on the stairs of their building.
The whole blame is on this chance meeting, since Japan from where Aya comes,
Is very far from Egypt where Nora was born,
or even from Armenia where her ancestors came from.
Before coming here to meet you they have each been to many different cities
respectively in various programs.
Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagoya, Yokohama, Okinawa, Frankfort, Sienna, Rome, Assisi,
Paris, Evian, St. Jean de Luz, Valence, Lyons, Nantes,
Avignon, Rambouillet, Cairo, Alexandria, Beirut,
London, Manchester, Edinburg,
Sydney, Washington, New York, Boston, Chicago, Detroit,
Ann Arbor, Los Angeles, Fresno, San Francisco,
Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Nicosia, Yerevan and Istanbul.
Special Thanks to
Prof. Levon Zekiyan (Associazione Padus-Araxes)
Brontis JODOROWSKY (Actors' coach)
François SCHMITT (Photos)
Gérald PAPASIAN
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