Kermesse

Company: Collectif La Cabale
The world is in crisis, and we were born into it. It's up to us to change it, it's obvious... What if we started with a caterpillar?
"The caterpillar is a dance in which people who don't know each other take each other by the shoulders, look in the same direction and become a people. - The Cabal
Doing the caterpillar all together on the evening of a performance. It's a simple project, yet this seemingly harmless festive ritual is a source of powerful reactions: rejection, pleasure, euphoria. For some, it even touches on tradition. With the caterpillar as their starting point, La Cabale questions our relationship with ridicule and shame, and turns this dance into a political, sociological and ecological subject.
Kermesse could be a social experiment. Would we be capable of initiating national reconciliation through dance? What if, to save the world, we had to start by saving ourselves?
WINNER OF THE AUDIENCE PRIZE & JURY PRIZE FOR T13 2023

For all audiences aged 8 and over