Un animal, des animals
A menagerie of finely cut paper puppets invites us to look at the living world differently. In this black-and-white universe, each wooden box questions the place of the human species in the animal kingdom.
About this event
As part of the Zone Sans Humains collective, Simone and Simon imagine places where human beings can no longer go: autonomous forests, not to protect animals, but to leave them in peace. No to concrete, yes to ants! Clean air for all creatures! they chant before turning their gaze to the species with which we coexist. From wooden boxes, like a giant picture book, a great menagerie emerges. Words are few, and the performers, Chloé Ratte and Simon Moers, fade behind the paper puppets. Black-and-white silhouettes, Birds, Hedgehog, Lobster, and Pigs come vividly and delicately to life to the electronic music of Luce Amoros. The visual language carries the audience into a new order of things, in which humans would take their place among the animals. This show invites us to step aside and consider ethics by opening a window onto other possible relationships with the living world.
