LE JOUR DE LA BÊTE (THE DAY OF THE BEAST), a group portrait, is a project born of my observation over the years of the practice of castells (human towers), a cultural event that takes place in several Mediterranean cities.
These human towers are multi-storey architectures and constructions created by a multitude of people. This spectacular festival and practice is the representation of a living monument that could answer the question of self-representation and self-celebration of communities. With these questions as a starting point, I wanted to explore the idea of the festive ritual as a living organism in this piece for 5 dancers, and to draw choreographic material from the various rituals that communities invent to gather and celebrate themselves.
What gestures, physical energies and collective acts do we create to find common spaces? to invent celebratory rituals?

Spatial configurations and movements inspired by popular festivals such as certain Mediterranean celebrations, but also carnivals and other contemporary collective events, rhythm and breath are the driving forces behind this ephemeral community built around different polyphonies and polyrhythms carried by voice and body.
LE JOUR DE LA BÊTE (THE DAY OF THE BEAST) depicts the organic, “on-sight” development of a group, its emergence and advent, and questions the notion of festive ritual as a place for gathering, sharing energy and empathy, but also as a space for purgation.