When It Falls: L’Enfer, C’est Les Autres
is a powerful interdisciplinary dance performance inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos, delving deeply into themes of perception, identity, and movement within an immersive environment. This contemporary piece provocatively highlights existential confinement, using imagination as an essential creative tool. For the dancers, imagination unlocks the potential to break free from rigid movement structures, fostering a profound sense of creative freedom and fluidity. It allows the audience to shift perspectives, reimagine space, and deepen their understanding of the performance. In this way, imagination becomes an instrument that reshapes identity and interpersonal relationships.
To think about our bodies is to think beyond the individual; it is to acknowledge the entanglement of people, environments, and the invisible currents that shape our interactions. This performance is an encounter between performers and a collective act of inhabiting space together—a commitment to presence, reciprocity, and permeability.
This project is rooted in a strong multidisciplinary collaboration between Baden-Württemberg artists and international partners, fostering a creative dialogue between regional and global perspectives. By engaging artists from diverse backgrounds, When It Falls: L’Enfer, C’est Les Autres builds an artistic bridge that transcends borders, generating a dynamic exchange of ideas, methodologies, and aesthetics.
By centring fluidity, we challenge fixed hierarchies and normative ways of relating to one another. We create a space where movement is not imposed but emerges, where identities are not defined but felt, and where boundaries are permeable. This inclusive approach ensures that everyone—performers and audience alike—feels not only welcomed but integral to the experience. The work unfolds in shared time, propelled by a current of connection, making visible the invisible forces that bind us.
