The dance practice is inspired by research into ethology and speculative storytelling.

Ethology is the scientific study of animal behaviour in its environment. It opens research possibilities by connecting our body-subjects to living beings and enriching them with behaviours, sensations and attentions. The exercises are designed to encourage participants to visit a sensory and sensitive space of attention. These connections enable us to be attentive to the postures we take and, from there, to open new narrative possibilities.

Speculative storytelling suggests rethinking the narrative we want to see, individually and collectively. These narratives are those of a politics of attention, sensitivity, fragility and empathy. They are stories of curiosity about other ways of living together.  They open to new ways of thinking, feeling and dancing together.

During the improvisations, individuals meet, their stories interweave and weave new narrative paths. The process of creation and transformation is infinite.

Ref: "Body-subjects" Emma Bigé, Mouvementements

The piece takes as its starting point the need for the performer to find a new path towards the act of dancing and the issues of representation. Inspired by the villainous creatures of classical ballet, the piece seeks a poetics of impure and fantastic figures. Creatures lurking in an unfulfilled future.

Team
Concept and performance Marion Zurbach
Sound creation Zooey Agro
Costume creation Silvia Romanelli

Light design Nils Doucet
Dramaturgy Arthur Eskenazi
Oeil extérieur Johanna Hilari
Producer Maxine Devaud
Administration Raphaël Soleilhavoup
Pictures Simon Courchel

Coproductions
Ballet National de Marseille,Dampfzentrale Bern, Festival Parallèle Marseille, KLAP Maison pour la Danse à Marseille, Centre Culturel Suisse

Partners
CN D Maison pour la Danse Pantin
Tanzhaus Zürich 
SOMA Marseille

With the support of Kultur Stadt Bern, SWISSLOS/Kultur Kanton Bern, Pro Helvetia, Burgergemeinde Bern, Migros Engagement

Les Héritier⋅x (The heirs) is a trio performed by dancers Évo Mine Lambillon and Pierre Piton, and renaissance flutist and electronic musician Stélios Lazarou.

The performance observes Orchésographie, the first manual of dance and choreographic writing, produced by Thoinot Arbeau (1588). It presents the most complete corpus of dances practiced in the 16th century.

The performance seeks to revive the Renaissance ballroom by revealing what goes through these dances. They are interpreted beyond their codified script and human boundaries.

With the support of Kultur Stadt Bern, SWISSLOS/Kultur Kanton Bern, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Burgergemeinde Bern, Fonds culturel de la Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), Migros-Kulturprozent, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS, Gesellschaft zu Ober-Gerwern, Bürgi-Willert-Stiftung.