PRODUCTIONS:

That’s twisted (creation 2025-2026)

Baptiste cazaux

The creation of That’s twisted starts from a deep melancholy, the feeling that it is difficult to imagine a joyful future for humanity. A sense of uncertainty feeds my panicked fear of death and the future. The multiple crises (wars and genocides, the rise of the far right, COVID-19, etc.) experienced in recent years give me a paralyzing sense of helplessness that is hard to overcome. In his article "TiK ToK: Post Crash Party Pop, Compulsory Presentism and the 2008 Financial Collapse", Dan DiPiero analyzes the impact of the 2008 economic crisis on pop music at the end of the 2000s. (continued)

Kassia Undead (creation 2025-2026)

Lara Barsacq

This new creation will revolve around the figure of Cassienne de Constantinople or Kassia de Constantinople, one of the first igumens (abesses) of whom we have been able to identify traces and who lived in the 9th century. She was a poet, composer, hymnographer of the Byzantine Empire and was subsequently canonized. She is one of the first composers of the Middle Ages whose scores have been preserved… (continued)

Threshold (creation 2025-2026)

Tumbleweed

After our first group piece A Very Eye (2022) and our interdisciplinary project Dehors est blanc (2023), we wish to return to a simpler and more direct form with Threshold. It’s about resuming physical work as a couple in the studio, and continuing to develop our language, body by body, by connecting our music and dance practices for the first time. We imagine Threshold as a choreographic duo dispersed in time; two performers (Angela Rabaglio and Micaël Florentz) will take turns on stage without ever meeting, like two separate phases of the same signal... (continued)

Piñata Cake (creation 2025)

Gaël santisteva

Piñata Cake (working title) is a trio inspired by the spectacular unveiling technique using fabrics, generally used in the automobile to introduce the public to a new product. A metaphor for scoops and revelations, the project will deal with our relationship to money, consumption, excrement and what we choose to reveal in society... (continued)

GIMME A BREAK!!!

baptiste cazaux

My research is rooted in a personal quest for catharsis and intensity. For this new project, I want to bring together Drum n Bass music, mindfulness meditation, drumming and headbanging. Through these influences, I seek to create a body that is both conscious and intensely physically engaged, as well as an experience, musical and rhythmical for the audience and myself… (continued)

Voie, Voix, Vois

Gaël santisteva, Saaber Bachir, antoine leroy

Voie, Voix, Vois is the result of an encounter between Saaber Bachir, Antoine Leroy and Gaël Santisteva. It was specially designed for the Garden Party program, organised by Théâtre des Doms. It will take the form of a collaborative trio between a musician (Antoine Leroy), a dancer, singer, actor (Gaël Santisteva) and a poet, singer, actor, designer (Saaber Bachir). Taking its primary sources from the art of ventriloquism and its derivatives, it will probe questions of legitimacy, power and freedom, submission and control… (continued)

La Grande Nymphe

Lara barsacq

La Grande Nymphe invites us to celebrate the vulnerability and strength of two female bodies. Dances where the flesh, the discrepancy, the displacement of the self and the fantasized eroticization of bodies would be the search. Between reality and incarnation, abstraction and narration; the myth of the nymph would be approached as a ghost and/or a raw, real presence. The performers will combine sung texts, sound, music and movements to celebrate the fragility of the moment, a hymn to the free body.… (continued)

Dehors est blanc

Tumbleweed

Tumbleweed proposes a choreographic triptych in suspension; an original way to address the question of territory. For this ongoing research, Tumbleweed has developed a specific rigging technique that places the body in a fragile and transitory equilibrium. Through a radical and microscopic movement score, the dancers unfold in the air, reminding that in the vast ensemble of our reality in action, movement remains ungraspable. An attempt of a contemporary human being, who, today more than ever, questions the determinants of its balance and of its territory… (continued)

A Very Eye

Tumbleweed

Inseparable from its own kind, as well as from the constantly changing environment, the individual is plural and always in a process of becoming. (S)he is as much a space in motion, as the distance to the other. The human being is a relation. Inspired by the diversity of collective behaviors found in the living world, A Very Eye is an invitation to change our perspective, to highlighten the interstices, to emphasize the relation to the other and to let the interdependencies appear. Driven by a common stream that seems inexhaustible, five dancers are drifting in and out of each other, … (continued)

Garcimore est mort

gael santisteva

Struggling with a chaotic scenic device in perpetual deceleration, playing with the codes of entertainment, three (or four) performers make their way towards their own emancipation and celebrate the simplicity of the imperceptible glitter of existence. While passing through hand tricks, pop songs, a tap dance solo, physical prowess or dance, they share their thoughts on the power of beliefs and manipulation and try to deploy an ode to decay in dissonance to the complex, over-informed, ultra-fast, profuse, capitalist and demanding world… (continued)

Fruit Tree

lara barsacq

Lara Barsacq is once again turning to the Ballets Russes at the start of the 20th century for inspiration, paying homage to one of its underrated creators, Bronislava Nijinska, who created the choreography for Les Noces to a score by Igor Stravinsky. This ballet stages the marriage of a peasant couple and in particular the preparations of the young bride, in tears at the thought of this future union. Using the art of diversion and poetic digressions, Lara Barsacq takes this story and evokes femininity, rites of passage and the freedom of dancing bodies… (continued)

perfect pitch

baptiste cazaux

With the auto-tune software, no one sings out of tune anymore. Everything is digitally calibrated, adjusted, which allows Baptiste Cazaux to question the notion of virtuosity. The dancer and choreographer applies to the stage this principle of an app that challenges the notions of accuracy and authenticity. Confronted with classical ballet, lyrical singing and a tuba, the performer explores vulnerabilities, awkwardness, amateurism. Truth and lies too… (continued)

IDA don’t cry me love

lara barsacq

The origin of the idea came from Ida Rubinstein, the legendary dancer with the Ballets russes and muse of Sergei Diaghilev who caused a sensation in Paris at the start of the 20th century. One century on, Lara Barsacq is celebrating and singing in memory of Ida Rubinstein and her glory and absence, serving as a continual source of inspiration. Her way of combining the historic and the trivial, the grandiose and the absurd, personal memories and archives, allows the choreographer to compose an ode to freedom… (continued)

EXERCICE DE STYLES #2

baptiste cazaux

The creation of this work was driven by Raymond Queneau’s literary essay, whose title the artist has boldly borrowed. The book tells the same short story in 99 different ways. Together with Akané Nussbaum, Cazaux applies the same variation to a choreographic sentence improvised at the beginning of the performance. On stage, a green background recalls the cinematic device that allows for the insertion of special effects in films, and it is indeed fiction and imagination that are called upon here… (continued)

The Gyre

Tumbleweed

The Gyre is a duet evolving from one basic action: walking. Gravitating around one shared central point, walking accelerates into a whirling, fathoming the mechanics of a relationship. Persistence and steady transformation unfold into a rigorous, yet fragile complementary score. Fugacious shapes emerge along the orbiting trajectory and coalesce with the subtle design of light and sound. In every instant of a turn, the two performers drift in and out of another, the distinct lines and contours of the bodies blur delicately into one… (continued)

Lost in Ballets russes

lara barsacq

As the great niece of Léon Bakst - famous painter, decorator and costume designer of the Ballets Russes -, Lara Barsacq spent her childhood immersed in a revolutionary and prolific work. She is deeply marked by the reproductions of the artist including those representing Ida Rubinstein, the muse, fascinating and exotic dancer. Lara draws from her memory both the paintings of the great-uncle and some artifacts of the 1970s, to create an autobiographical piece as a tribute to her father, envisioning her dance as a ritual that transcends time… (continued)

TALK SHOW

gael santisteva

What is the reality of a life of circus? On the set, disappointments, euphoria, frustrations, confessions and opinions are expressed without any taboo, with humor and lightness. As our lives are made of a succession of failures and successes, circus is here the ideal vector to address questions related to age, obsolescence, evolution, and therefore the success of a turning point in life. The vulnerability of the being and its sincerity take precedence over the physical performance… (continued)