Chêne Noir

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Chêne Noir ./ biography / *Théâtre du Chêne Noir d'Avignon* / Theater group founded in the late 1960's by Gérard Gelas. In the early 1970's, they also played music. It is also the name of their theater in a disused church in the town of Avignon where theater productions and musical performances from other artists have been presented. As you might guess out of this band’s name, Théâtre du Chêne Noir d’Avignon, Chêne Noir was a troupe of music artists and stars from the town of Avignon in southeast France. Avignon actually is well-known for its many theater companies as well as the name identifies both the functionality group as well as the historic chapel where these are headquartered. Many very similar groups — such as for example Primary Edwards Magic Movie theater, Grand Magic Circus, and Floh de Cologne — in the first ’70s throughout European countries blended rock and roll with movie theater, but Chêne Noir, even more avant-garde than most, deserves particular note because of its mixture of improvised jazz and rock and roll, spoken phrase, dance, and theatrics. Musician and article writer Gerard Gelas founded Chêne Noir in 1968 in an effort to create ceremonies release a the entire potential of mankind and force the performers literally and psychological towards the limitations. Though sometimes the troupe placed on materials by Molière, Alfred Jarry, and additional even more obscure French authors, their main concentrate was on unique materials by Gelas and others in the

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