Variations sur les passions humaines
If beings from the farthest reaches of the solar system were to arrive on our planet, how would they make contact with us? Through what means—what language, what signs, what tools of understanding? How would they respond to our irresistible impulses, our inconsistencies, our obsessions? Would they wish to become like us?
In this fictional stage piece, five visitors attempt to become human in order to explore our behaviors—reimagining and performing them as light and playful at times, yet often complex, both unrestrained and restrained at once. And it is precisely when they begin to truly resemble us that their strangeness becomes unsettling.
Concept Patrick Bonté
Direction and Choreography Patrick Bonté in collaboration with Nicole Mossoux
Performers Marion Bosetti, Dorian Chavez, Taylor Lecoq, Frauke Mariën and Shantala Pèpe
Sound Design Thomas Turine
Set Design Simon Siegmann
Costumes Jackie Fauconnier
Make-up and Wigs Rebecca Florès-Martinez
Lighting Patrick Bonté
Technical Direction and Lighting Management Léopold de Nève
Sound Management Fred Miclet
Production Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté, in co-production with Charleroi danse – Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles; Théâtre Les Tanneurs (Brussels); Central (La Louvière); Escher Theater (Esch-sur-Alzette).
With the support of Taxshelter.be, ING and the Belgian Federal Government’s Tax Shelter scheme, the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (dance department), and Wallonie-Bruxelles International.
