Peaux - Troisième Hymne
for 7 performers in 2021 – restaged as a quintet in 2023
Zoë De Sousa
Performed by five young dancers and a lighting designer, Peaux – Troisième Hymne traces the geographies of a community striving to feel, experience and embody the world in a different way.
The piece is rooted in our potential for emancipatory intimacy, exploring our relationships with vitality and care within a lifeless space. The challenge is to transform fatalism into a project.
A sense of urgency within immobility, or an attempt at distortion. One vital impulse remains : that of constructing the topography of one’s own body.
© Alexandre Lard
cast
concept and choreography Zoë De Sousa
sound design Philippe De Sousa
lighting design Sophie Lepoutre
lighting technician Corentin Nagler
costumes Camille Halimi
production Claudia Poulsen
with the dancers
Lola Potiron, Esteban Appesseche, Salomé Rebuffat, Lou Lernormand, Zoë De Sousa
special thanks to Sylvie et Fabienne Huygevelde, Myriam Gourfink, Madeline Tual, Noémie Langevin, Lucie Domenach, Loïc Aymé, Marie Albert, Morgane Bonis, Joséphine Boivineau, Pierre Lison, Galaad Quenouillère, May De Sousa, Michel Leray
partners
production – THDT, with the support of Adami, Drac Ile de France, Région Ile de France, Ville de Paris, Spedidam, CNSMDP, Espace Pasolini Valenciennes, Scène 61 Scène Nationale Alençon
residences – Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil, Théâtre de Aulnay-sous-bois, Théâtre de la Commune Centre Dramatique National d'Aubervilliers, Mains d'Oeuvres Saint-Ouen, La Briqueterie CDCN
© Alexandre Lard
« A piece for collective solitudes
in a lifeless space
An experiment under the microscope
the friction of light and skin
amidst the ruins, the depths of urgency
Our bodies
as young dancers
are to be gathered in the palms of our eyes
presences or feelings of living and departing
geographies that always favour the drapes
the chiaroscuro, our game of carefree abandon
It is a promise of dawn
to be beside, to be with oneself
to move amongst others
to be a collective that has not chosen itself
and yet shares history and its shreds. »
Zoë De Sousa