Jean-françois Pauzé - Les Amours De Seconde Main

Transbordeur welcomes Jean-Francois Pauze with Les Amours de seconde main

At Transbordeur, we are delighted to open our stage to Jean-Francois Pauze for Les Amours de seconde main, an intimate creation that explores love’s afterlives, the traces of feeling that remain, and the poetry that flickers in the margins of everyday life. From our vantage point as a live music and performance venue, this evening promises a rare balance of craft and candor: a writer-performer inviting the audience into a living notebook, where narrative, melody, and spoken word intersect. The show’s architecture is deliberately uncluttered, letting Pauze’s voice, guitar, and sharply etched texts take center stage. Expect a set that moves fluidly between fresh, unpublished pages and songs that have shaped his trajectory, all tailored for the acoustics and close-up atmosphere of Transbordeur. We have tuned the room to carry the whisper of a line as clearly as a chorus, so that each confession, each ironical twist, each tender refrain can resonate and linger long after the lights dip.

Recent artistic pulse and repertoire highlights

Les Amours de seconde main arrives at Transbordeur as a vibrant chapter in Pauze’s ongoing artistic story, an endeavor that embraces the contemporary pulse of francophone songwriting while keeping faith with the finely chiseled lyricism that audiences cherish. In recent years, listeners have rallied around pieces like L’Amérique pleure and Ici-bas, titles that exemplify his gift for pairing social observation with emotional clarity. The show at Transbordeur threads that sensibility into a fresh dramaturgy: portraits of lovers and loners, city corners at dusk, the fragile comedy of starting over. Without giving away surprises, the evening invites echoes of familiar signatures in dialogue with new pages written specifically for the stage, sketches that turn on a single image, and melodies that rise almost conversationally before opening into a refrain. For those who have followed his pen, references to Les étoiles filantes or Tant qu’on aura de l’amour function as discreet constellations, guiding lights in a program that privileges presence, nuance, and the living breath of performance. Our team has worked hand in hand with the artist to shape a dynamic flow, keeping transitions cinematic while preserving the spontaneous spark that makes a one-night encounter unforgettable.

As a venue, Transbordeur is committed to creating conditions where storytelling can bloom: sightlines that favor intimacy, sound design that supports clarity over volume, and a room that feels like a confidant rather than a crowd. Les Amours de seconde main is conceived for exactly this kind of space. You can expect a staging that uses minimalism as an amplifier—subtle lighting cues to mirror shifts of mood, acoustic textures that let a single line of verse ring with intention, and pacing that breathes. Between songs and spoken interludes, Pauze sketches a cartography of second chances, finding humor in the awkwardness of new beginnings and tenderness in the artifacts we carry from past chapters. The evening at Transbordeur becomes a meeting point: the performer’s inner landscape crossing the audience’s own memories. Whether you come to meet the new work or to hear familiar themes reframed, the promise is the same—a night grounded in carefully chosen words, melodies that take their time, and the rare sensation of being addressed personally from the stage.