Vertige, Manhattan Transfert
Théâtre immersif
Information
Vertige, Manhattan Transfer is an immersive live performance adapted from John Dos Passos’s novel. Through an interactive experience incorporating artificial intelligence, the piece transposes into our contemporary era the sense of vertigo sparked a century ago by the arrival of moving images and the telephone. By confronting the human with the machine, Vertige, Manhattan Transfer explores the impact of technological revolutions on the human psyche and on bodies, driven by music and dance.
Credits
Adaptation and staging: LÉONARD MATTON
Staging collaboration: CAMILLE DELPECH
Music and sound design: LAURENT LABRUYÈRE / HOHISSE STUDIHO
Choreography: MARION LEVY
Costume design: CHOUCHANE ABELLO / LE CONSERVATOIRE DU COSTUME
Visual design: STÉPHANE MAUGERI
Scenography assistant: CAMILLE DUHAMEL
Technology design: FRÉDÉRIC TAÏEB
General stage management and lighting: MATHIEU DESBOURDES
Intimacy coordination: JEAN-BAPTISTE BARBIER-ARRIBE
Technology consultant: RÉMI LARGE / TAMANOIR
AI consultant: CÔME DEMARIGNY / X&IMMERSION
AI legal consultant: CLARA BENYAMIN / CBLF AVOCATS
Production management: MATHILDE GAMON
With, during the showcase:
CAMILLE ARRIVÉ
HÉLÈNE BOUTIN
JULIE CAVANNA
MADISON GOLAZ
ALICE PREYSSAS
DIANE RÉNIER
Also featuring:
LÉNA BRÉBAN
YOLANDA CREIGHTON
CHLOÉ FROGET
MARJORIE DE LARQUIER
ALEXIANE TORRÈS
LYMIA VITTE
Artist / Studio biography
Author-adaptor and stage director, Léonard Matton is currently a 2026 Villa Albertine resident, conducting research on the confrontation between live performers and AI. He is also an associate artist at the Scène conventionnée de Nevers with his company, Emersiøn. As a stage director, his work explores the porous boundary between stage and audience during performance. From Molière, Shakespeare, Ibsen and Strindberg to Feydeau, Ingmar Bergman and Dea Loher, he brings into play the coexistence of dramatic texts and contemporary audiences.