NATURA ELECTRA

On the occasion of the exhibition “Théodore Rousseau. La Voix de la Forêt”, the Petit Palais, COAL and Les Nuits des Forêts present the exceptional evening Natura Electra!

Join us on Friday, May 24 from 7pm for a festive, committed evening in the heart of the museum garden until 11pm.

On the program: a sensory and meditative experience with Malena Beer in the garden, “La Clef des Chants” choir, a performance by The BadWeeds and a concert by Toh Imago!

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► Eclipse: a sensory and meditative experience for an intimate connection with nature
Hosted by Malena Beer
Choreographer, dancer, sociologist and yoga teacher Malena Beer invites visitors to reconnect with a perception of reality that passes through the body before the mind, to plunge into an introspective, sensory experience of waking sleep. The invitation is to slow down and listen. The sense of sight will be eclipsed, in order to open up, refine and sharpen the other senses and immerse ourselves in the world of the invisible. Using her voice as a guide, Malena will gradually take you into a modified state of consciousness by suggesting new perceptual correspondences: breathing an image with your skin, savoring a sound with your chest, listening to a temperature with your feet…. Through this prelude, Malena Beer aims to create an intimate and unusual ambrosial experience between the outside and inside worlds.

► “La Clef des Chants” choir
Under the direction of Benoît Reeves, the Choeur & Orchestre La Clef des Chants Ensemble (a Parisian student choir) will bring together some 50 choristers, a number of instrumentalists and 2 guest speakers to tackle the issues surrounding today’s forest ecosystems in a sensitive and scholarly way. The choir’s repertoire combines sacred songs (Mozart, Bach, Handel) and the most contemporary/popular songs (Britney Spears, Camila Cabello, Dua Lipa, musicals, etc.), and will be punctuated by spoken word from Ronan Moinet and Claire Damesin.

► Performance by The BadWeeds / Rocio Berenguer
They grow out of oblivion, out of cracks, out of the most inhospitable, wild and anarchic places, coexisting with us, between us, their existence a gesture of resilience, living proof of resistance. THEBADWEEDS is a group of wacky weeds, a trans-species group, half human and half plant, who have come from the plant kingdom to share their message with humans!

► Toh Imago concert
DJ and producer Toh Imago presents his “Refuge” project (InFiné). Recorded in the forest of Mormal, the largest forest in the Nord department, the album skilfully combines bird song, wind noise, synthesizers and drum machines. The album was recorded on the 432 Hz frequency described by scientists as the natural frequency. Oscillation at 432Hz is considered the resonant frequency of atoms and molecules in nature, including water. By extension, it is considered to have the power to cleanse negative energies.