How would beings arriving from within the solar system and landing on our planet go about entering into contact with us ? “How would they feel, faced with our irresistible urges? Our inconsistencies, our obsessions ? Would they want to be like us ?”, wonders Patrick Bonté who, in accordance with the company’s principle of rotation, has created this new work.
A group of extra-terrestrials visiting Earth tries to adopt humanity’s codes in order to examine our behaviour. Dreams, fantasy and restraint come into play, while the resemblance is finessed, and this strange familiarity veers off into anguish.
An echo chamber for the chaos of our era, and for its ills, these Variations sur les passions humaines pull apart our ruined relationships, and displace our disintegrated dynamics, presenting an opening to embolden “impertinent and unrestricted speech”.
Création 2026 / Conception : Patrick Bonté / Mise en scène et chorégraphie : Patrick Bonté, en collaboration avec Nicole Mossoux / Interprètes : Marion Bosetti, Dorian Chavez, Taylor Lecoq, Frauke Mariën, Shantala Pèpe / Création sonore : Thomas Turine / Scénographie : Simon Siegmann / Costumes : Jackye Fauconnier / Maquillages et perruques : Rebecca Florès-Martinez / Lumière : Patrick Bonté / Scénographie : Patrick Bonté, Nicole Mossoux / Direction technique et régie lumière : Léopold De Nève / Régie son : Fred Miclet
Production : Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté / Coproduction : Charleroi danse, Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Central La Louvière, Escher Theater / Soutien : taxshelter.be, ING, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement fédéral belge, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Wallonie-Bruxelles International