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Holobiontes

(2025)

In these times of ecological crisis, which is also and above all a crisis of our sensitivity to living things, we feel it’s vital to create sensitive experiences that challenge our imaginations, as well as the organization of reality on which our world is based.

The term holobiont refers to the fact that the life of any multi-cellular organism is only made possible by the multitude of other life forms it harbors. In other words, there is no such thing as an isolated form of life: on the contrary, all life is always multiplied by others, by intimate relations of biological cooperation, by indispensable inter-species links.

This piece is therefore focused on the interactions and interspecific partnerships that make up the fabric of the living. At the heart of an immersive installation that will blur the boundaries between the public space and the performance space, the 7 performers will move between different ways of expressing this fundamental multiplicity, of organizing themselves and dancing together, made up of both mutual aid and friction, at the intersection of the molecular, mineral, plant, animal or hybrid planes, as interspecies utopias seeking to trigger in the spectators a concrete sensation of new possibilities.

Premiere : 8+9 October, 2025 – Biennale of Charleroi danse

concept
Florencia Demestri + Samuel Lefeuvre
choreography and dance
Tom Grand Mourcel + Christina Guieb + Hanne Kristine Jensen + David Pallant + Amarine Rignanese + Loü Viret + Florencia Demestri/Samuel Lefeuvre (alternating)
music
Julian Sartorius
lights
Nicolas Olivier
visuals
Laetitia Bica
costumes + scenography
Sofie Durnez – in collaboration with Laetitia Bica
dramaturgy
Arnaud Timmermans
fluidity coordinator
Mathilde Maillard
scientific consultants
Nathalie Delzenne + René Rezsohazy – UCL
assistant
Roy Hankach
technical direction
Antoine Steier
administration
Camille Collard
head of production
Jimmy Geers
distribution
Charlotte Wacker
production
LOG asbl
coproduction
Charleroi danse – Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles + MARS – Mons Arts de la Scène + Théâtre Varia (Brussels) + CCNO – Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans as part of the Accueil Studio program + CDCN Atelier de Paris + in coproduction with La Coop asbl and Shelter Prod
grant
Research-Creation at UCL Louvain La Neuve
support
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles + GRAND STUDIO + 3CL + L’Abri Genève + Teatro do Porto + Pôle Sud CDCN (Strasbourg) as part of the Réseau Grand Luxe + with the support of taxshelter.be, ING and the tax-shelter of the Belgian federal government
residency
Studio Thor, with support from Compagnie Thor / Thierry Smits + Théâtre du Marché aux Grains (Bouxwiller)
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