Le crayon blanc

("The White Pencil")

The Crayon Blanc (“White Pencil”) is an experiment aiming at giving a visual dimension to the universe created by poets and musicians in the context of live performances. A white pencil gives a changing visual existence to poetic readings, characters, feelings, music. It writes, erases, multiplies patterns. These drawings tell a poet’s pain, a culture’s soul, a story’s wonders. The pencil’s motions, like a dancer’s, constantly renew its creations: every instant the combination of audio and visual compositions varies and offers new meanings, new sensations. Creations and senses dialogue and blend into a “total” artistic experience.

This project started in spring 2008 by performing "La conquete du Jardin", poems from Forough Farrokhzad (a contemporary Iranian poet). Later it continued with a tribute to Sayed Bahodin Majroh, a contemporary Afghan Philosophe. In 2009 it will continue by adding two performances: "Je t'aime comme du pain et du sel", a selection of Nazim Hikmet pems (Turkish poet), and then with poems from Wislawa Szymborska a contemporary polish peot.

25 Février 2009, Le Crayon Blanc, "La conquête du Jardin" performed at Espace Harmattan, Paris, France

21 November 2008, Le Crayon Blanc, "Homage to Sayd Bahodin Majrouh" (Afghan philosoph and writer) performed at Café Djam, Paris, France

27 October 2008, Le Crayon Blanc, "La conquête du Jardin" performed at La Maison de l'Europe et de l'Orient, Paris, France

6 Juillet 2008, Le Crayon Blanc, "Homage to Sayd Bahodin Majrouh" (Afghan philosoph and writer) performed at Dijon, France

18 June 2008 , Le Crayon Blanc, La conquête du Jardin" (Iranian Poet) performed at Café Djam, Paris, France

21 mai 2008 , Le Crayon Blanc, La conquête du Jardin" (Iranian Poet) performed at Café Djam, Paris, France