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11 March 2003: A model from the Alexander McQueen fashion show, whom I imitate in my parents’ bathroom. 3 April 2011: My first bow, after my first stage performance. 18 March 2018 : My meeting with Kate Bush in a weird bush 20 June 2044: A conversation about my father’s Armenian funeral. 21 June 2044:…
Read Morecircé
In Circé, Matthieu Hocquemiller works to reappropriate representations of the sexual, alongside those of nature, in order to present them as a ‘power to repair, console, experience and become’. By invoking the goddess Circe, he offers us a ‘metamorphic’ play, a ritual form of eco-sexual magic from which you leave the theatre a different person.…
Read Morel’arbre qui cachait la forêt
‘Yet, in looking elsewhere, we have a chance to start afresh: we are given a new, unsuspected perspective …’ Vivre de paysage, François Jullien Sophie Sénécaut is known for her work as an actor in various contemporary theatre companies, but here the focus is not on her acting practice. Indeed, in recent years, Sénécaut embarked…
Read Moresirènes
Imagine a vivarium in which three sirens are shown to the gaze of the zoo’s visitors. During this journey, we ask ourselves: What does this hybrid being – half-woman, half-animal – tell us today? How do we escape the moral constructs handed down to us by myths? What do we do with our fictional heritage?…
Read Moresāmara
Sāmara, a Sanskrit word, can be translated as both ‘war zone’ and ‘walk with the gods’. For her new choreographic work, Lila Magnin (aka Lila Magnifique) explores our dualities. Oscillating between anger and celebration. How do we move from one to the other? Alone? Together? How can we form a group in this duality, which…
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