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Premieres - Automn 2027

An intimate cabaret-gallery, the theatre of an invisible correspondence: a letter addressed to madness, written with the body, with stammered words, with music or with deafening silences. A true distillation of theatre in which live performance, visual arts and the spirit of arte povera intermingle.

The audience in close proximity, Volmir Cordeiro’s solo, in complicity with DJ Loup Gangloff, opens a space of resonance for the history of madness in art and elsewhere — close by, that other whom we misjudge or who reflects us. A crossing through imitation, the summoning of ghost artists, cited in their expression, their gesture, their posture. A madness that expresses itself here in numbers, in episodes, as a living and subversive force: that of the jester who speaks the truth through laughter and grimace, that of a person living with mental disorders whose off-kilter gaze, raw visions and disordered outbursts become the very material of creation.

It is a space where madness is neither pathologised nor romanticised, but explored as a radical artistic language, a distorting mirror held up to the spectator, between grating laughter and poetic vertigo.

The performance thus reveals how imitation can be an act of decentring, a way of shifting implicit hierarchies, of blurring the expected order of representations, and perhaps of inventing, in the space of a movement, a less fixed, more porous relationship between identities that seek and nourish one another.

Creation calendar
5–16 October 2026, research residency at Buda, Kortrijk / 19–30 October 2026, research residency at La Briqueterie, CDCN Val-de-Marne / 16–20 November 2026, research at Arts Fabrik, Montpellier / 18–23 January 2027, residency at Agora-CCN Montpellier / 15–20 March 2027, residency at Mille Plateaux, CCN La Rochelle → residency showing Saturday 20 March at 6:30 pm / 10–21 May 2027, residency at Pavillon Noir, Aix-en-Provence → residency showing Friday 21 May at 6:30 pm / 22–25 May 2027, residency at Klap, maison pour la danse Marseille → WIP on 25 May at 7 pm / 20 September to 1 October 2027, CCN Grenoble / 4 or 11 to 22 October 2027, technical residency at CCN Tours / 25 October to 8 November 2027, finalisation residency at Espace Pasolini, Valenciennes.

2 November, Cher Fou/cault at the BnF, in partnership with the Centre Pompidou

Premieres between 9 and 13 November 2027 at the Next Arts Festival, in Valenciennes and in Flanders.