«Consider well the seed that gave you birth: you were not made to live your lives as brutes,
but to be followers of worth and knowledge.»
Dante, Inferno, XXVI, 119-120
ODYSSEUS
The show revisits the Odyssey story to place it at the heart of these questions: in the face of the crises we are experiencing, how can we reweave together what has been undone? How can we create the possibility of a gesture of love?
By dint of excess and ambition, Ulysses (Odysseus), in his wandering, finds himself in a dark world where he is confronted with the loss of his own subjectivity, his memory, his own shipwreck. It is through an act of recognition that Ulysses, on his return to Ithaca, ultimately recovers his own lost identity. The strength of this founding act lies precisely in its resilience, its capacity to re-establish values within a community.
Through a scenic set-up that reorders the conditions of the gaze, Odysseus proposes a journey from the fall to regeneration.
Concept and direction
Monia Montali & Francois Bodeux
Performance
Monia Montali
Jef Stevens
Scenography
Francois Bodeux
Light design
Francois Bodeux & Nicolas Olivier
Costumes
Fabienne Damiean
Dramaturgy support
Pascale Gigon
Collaboration :
Kawan Augusto De Oliveira, Dominique Duszynski
Coproduction
Les Brigittines
C-takt
La Coop asbl
Support
Aldes/SPAM!, Charleroi Danse, La Roseraie, La Chaufferie-Acte1, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (commission interdisciplinaire des arts du spectacle), ING, ShelterProd, Tax shelter du gouvernement fédéral belge, Ateliers Melens & Dejardin (Promethea)
Premiere
17-19 february 2022 - Les Brigittines