Creation 2026 for 4 performers and a live actor-musician

On stage, five performers and an actor-musician search together for a momentum that never relents, a suspension that dodges the end. Driven by a powerful desire for the moment, LE MARGHERITE composes, between disguises and metamorphoses, a playful and sensitive ode to the ephemeral in which inefficiency is brandished as resistance, a way of thwarting finitude.

On stage, a space emerges as if ‘on the edge’: between lightness and intensity, their gestures and trajectories oscillate between the temptation of an abyss – that of our violent news, of passions that are too strong and of the consumption of our lives – and the need for suspension, thought of at once as desire, recommencement and deviation.

Like a daisy from which its petals are gradually plucked, they play with the intensity of chance, affirming together and in front of us a poetics of the ephemeral as much as of eternity. Desiring, loving, doing and beginning become the variations of a single gesture, the affirmation of a vital movement that has not yet finished being written.

Conception, choreography  Erika Zueneli

Performers  Charly Simon, Benjamin Gisaro,  Matteo Renouf, Louis Affergan, Charlotte Cétaire

Artistic collaboration, scenography Olivier Renouf 

Sound creation, live music  Sébastien Jacobs 

Sound management Alice Spenle 

Lighting design  Sylvie Mélis 

Costumes  Silvia Hasenclever, Léa Simon in collaboration with the performers

With the voices of Michel Foucault, Christophe de Hody (Le chemin de la nature), and sounds, music and songs (broadcast or performed live) by Sébastien Jacobs, Niagara, Charles Gounod, Alessandro Mazza / il Coro Licabella, Henry Purcell, Riccardo Cocciante, Igor Stravinski, Serguei Rachmaninov. Text excerpts Frédéric Forte from the book De la pratique – Scènes et machines / Anthologie de la poésie japonaise classique.

Production, administration Des Organismes Vivants & Ta-Dah!

Distribution, development Chiara Christoffersen 

Production  Tant’amati & L’Yeuse 

Coproduction, residencies Charleroi danse, Les Brigittines, Théâtre Le Colombier – Bagnolet, Festival Faits d’hiver, CDCN Les Hivernales d’Avignon (fr) & Théâtre  des Doms / le Centre WallonieBruxelles à Paris 

In co-production with  La Coop asbl et Shelter Prod

With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Session danse (Contrat de création 2024–26), CG93 as part of a territorial residency at Théâtre Le Colombier-Bagnolet, Des Organismes Vivants (with the PAC program of the Région Île-de-France), WBTD/WBI for touring, and taxshelter.be, ING, and the Belgian federal government’s tax shelter.

The company is supported by le Grand Studio.

For more informations: diffusion@erikazueneli.com

photo credit: Oriane Trably