The workshop is based on speculative narration practice. As a movement-improvisation tool, it is built with the participants, with the aim to develop alternative embodied stories.

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The monster is the sum of values attached to a civilization which crushes bodies, disconsiders certain postures and ecosystems. The Romantic ballet’s villains and the animals known as pests belong to this category of unwanted, negligible beings, or those to be fought.

Inspired by these creatures on the margins, the performer sets out to find a poetics for impure and horrific figures. She draws on her past as a ballet dancer a system of embodied values that have become essential to get rid of. Suffering from a chronic illness, she is looking for ways to secede from an oppressive norm on which she no longer wants to depend.

To become harmful, to sabotage, to corrupt, and to enjoy this battle.

Concept and performance Marion Zurbach
Music creation Zooey Agro
Costume design Silvia Romanelli
Oeil extérieur Arthur Eskenazi
Pictures Manon Tombe

Les Héritier⋅x (The heirs) is a trio performed by dancers Évo Mine Lambillon and Pierre Piton, and renaissance flutist and electronic musician Stélios Lazarou.

The performance observes Orchésographie, the first manual of dance and choreographic writing, produced by Thoinot Arbeau (1588). It presents the most complete corpus of dances practiced in the 16th century.

The performance seeks to revive the Renaissance ballroom by revealing what goes through these dances. They are interpreted beyond their codified script and human boundaries.