les égarés

In the organizer's words:

"les égarés", those who have lost their way, is the name of the new creation by cie. toula limnaios, which continues to follow the traces of the human condition and is inspired by Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal". In Baudelaire's "The Flowers of Evil" one does not find a general rejection of the world, but on the contrary an autopsy of discomfort, evil and suffering. His poems, which mark the beginning of 'modern' European poetry, are not only about contradictions, but also about the fragmentation and transience of human existence.

Today, we can neither go forwards nor backwards in a world that threatens to perish. "We are on the run, in limbo. We find ourselves in a de-centered life. Our form of existence is the speed and adaptability to the constantly changing conditions of our lives..." (Roger Willemsen)

"les égarés" reads visually like a choreographic essay, interpreted by eight dancers. They are as if trapped in a room, repelled from the here and now. Lonely and together, atomized in a swarm of attention...