SOUS LE VOLCAN features five individuals seeking new forms of cooperation and new imaginaries. Caught up in a process of collective transformation, they surrender to the fervor of an endless dance, a dance blending unity and uniqueness, fury and tenderness, as a final attempt to honor the beauty of life. Through this new creation, which favors connection, support, and mutual aid over individualism and competition, Leslie Mannès invites us to a
secret ceremony of healing amid the ashes of our fears. What if this act of ‘being together’ could be a way to face our traumas?
Choreographer Leslie Mannès Dancers Iris Brocchini, Gilles Fumba, Leslie Mannès, Amélie Marneffe (alternating with Eugenia Lapadula), Marco Torrice Light creation Vincent Lemaître Sound creation Solène Moulin Costume design Marie Artamonoff Costumes production Marie Artamonoff & Varia's costume workshop Fabienne Damiean, Lena Henry, Baptiste Alexandre, Isaline Vanlangendonck, Ludmila Krasnobai External advisor Joëlle Bacchetta Assistant Laura Bossicart Administrator and prodution manager Charlotte Lalieu
Visual Laetitia Bica Photography Hichem Dahes & Alice Piemme
Development, communication & tour manager BLOOM Project
Production Asbl Hirschkuh + BLOOM Project Executive production Théâtre Varia Co-production Théâtre Varia, Charleroi danse - Centre Chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, Les Hivernales - CDCN d'Avignon, La Coop asbl et Shelter Prod With the help of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Service de la Danse Supported by taxshelter.be, ING, tax-shelter du gouvernement fédéral belge, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Grand Studio et Studio THOR (residency)
This show was created in December 2024 at Théâtre Varia.
Leslie Mannes is a partner artist of Théâtre Varia.