les dauphins et les licornes

Like a journey into Utopia… that goes off track! On stage, a child, neurotypical dancers and others from the neurodivergent community. Together, they divide the world into two playful and ridiculously arbitrary categories: on one side, dolphins, and on the other, unicorns.

What follows is a kind of fascinating ritual, like an attempt to create a performance together, collectively, constantly disrupted by the frantic search for the other’s gaze, for their approval. At times, the performers also allow themselves the luxury of being authentically themselves: embracing their flaws, their fragility, turning their skin inside out like a glove to examine its seams and loose threads. These frantic back-and-forths between Self and Other place the dancers in a precarious balance. And we, the spectators nestled in the shadows, become privileged witnesses to their beauty, their humanity, and their monstrosity.

Once again, Les dauphins et les licornes bears the company’s choreographic signature: contemporary dance, jigging, uninhibited spoken word, performative theatricality, all languages necessary for the emergence of a true dramaturgy of diversity. With this new work, choreographer Maïgwenn Desbois allows herself to be guided by her performers, creating a great punk and kitsch ball where rainbows are sometimes splattered with blood.