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With this writing workshop, organised as part of her artistic residency at the Kufa (more info here), Laure Roldàn invites you to pick up your palette of colours and write down your happiness. Agnès Varda's film and its form will be used as a pretext to explore its different facets and feed the writing for this project. Participants will be looking for dialogues that oscillate between wordplay, puns, quotations and maxims, and will work from the sensations produced by Mozart's fugue, a photo of a memory of happiness, a painting that gives them a sensation of happiness, a moment that captures it, an accumulation of their impressions to better draw its outline.

This workshop is open to everyone, whether you're 7 or 77. Feel free to bring along a song, a souvenir photo, an object or an image that tells us what happiness means to you.

Laure Roldàn

Laure Roldàn, which is Franco-Spanish and Luxembourgish, trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris. Her theatre credits include work with Muriel Mayette, Hélène Vincent, Arthur Nauzyciel, Christian Benedetti, Silviu Purcarete, Vincent Goethals, Carole Lorang , Laura Schroeder, Laurent Contamin, Matthew Lenton, Myriam Muller, Pascale Noé-Adam, Laurent Guttman, Fabio Godinho, Yann Colette, Frederic Maragnani and Jean Boillot. In film, she has worked with Jean-Michel Ribes, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, Artus de Penguern, Pascal Bonitzer and Catherine Castel. In 2011, she directed Voilà donc le Monde based on Illusions Perdues by Balzac at the Théâtre 13. She presented "Dolce inferno", an adaptation inspired by Fellini's Dolce Vita at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg as part of the Talent LAB. She was assistant to Yves Beaunesne on Victor Hugo's "Ruy Blas" and to Calixto Bieito at Birmingham's Repertory Theater for "The string quartet's guide to sex and anxiety". She worked with Gaëtan Vassart on "Anna Karenine, les bals où je m'amuse n'existent plus pour moi" at the Théâtre de la Tempête with Golshifteh Farahni in the title role.

She created "Petit frère, la grande histoire Aznavour" (Little brother, the great Aznavour story) based on Aïda Aznavour as part of Capucins Libre, which went on tour in France and Armenia. She will be co-directing "La rue des fleurs n'existe pas" alongside Aude-Laurence Biver and Christine Muller for the talent show lab goes city at the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg in September 2020. In spring 2021, she will be designing, writing and directing a musical and poetic touring performance based around the city's most emblematic landmarks: "Les bancs publics", in collaboration with author and composer Camille Rocailleux. In 2021 she will write a short film, "1 heure 30", currently in production. .In 2022, she will be taking part in the "Ekinox" cross-border project orchestrated by Sophie Langevin and Alexandra Tobeleim at the CDN in Thionville and performing in Brice Montagne's participatory project "Nos vies seront heureuses" as part of Esch 2022, the European Capital of Culture..

In October 2021, she took part in the CITF project incubator held in Hammana, Lebanon, where she met artists from the French-speaking world with whom she forged strong artistic links.  She is currently working on "Les murs parlent", about the unofficial history of frescoes in cities, and will be in residence in Lebanon, at the Kulturfabrick, before premiering in October 2024 at the Biennale des arts d'Aix-en-Provence. Her show "Petit frère, la grande histoire Aznavour" represented Luxembourg at the Avignon Festival from 7 to 27 July 2023 at the Caserne des pompiers. A show supported by Kultul.Lx, LE CENTQUATRE -PARIS and le Carreaux du temple.