Smatch [1]

We are immediately in a laboratory in which stories about pigs, animal masks, a map of Belgium on which Wallonia is a desert, a face sculpted in slices of ham that is devouring itself co-inhabit... Through these sometimes incongruous, often comical experiments, linked by the words of a philosopher whose discourse on our relationship to animals structures the performance, the director and actress from Liège, Dominique Roodthooft, proposes a response to the ambient negativism expressed by the discourses that permeate our society. By asking the question of our relationship to animals, she casts a renewed look at our relationship with the other, rid of the prejudices that maintain our feeling of impotence and desperation, and makes this laboratory a place for the live invention of "other possibilities". Smatch [1], a contraction of smash and match, is both a light and deep experience, spectacular and reflective, that blends the anecdotal and the philosophical, the poetic and the political.

dramaturg Vincianne Despret
artistic collaboration Anne-Cécile Vandalem
scenographer assistant Claudine Maus
music Pierre Kissling
light Jojo Bosmans

by and with Messieurs Delmotte, Vincianne Despret (video), Raoul Lhermitte, Dominique Roodthooft, Mieke Verdin, le chien Noisette

production Le corridor (Liège)
coproduction Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Bruxelles)
avec le soutien du Ministère de la Communauté française-Service du Théâtre, de la région Wallonne, du KVS, du Théâtre de la Place, de la Ville de Liège, de Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI), de Liège Province Culture, de l'agence Wallonie Bruxelles Théâtre Danse, de la Société Libre d'émulation-Liège, de Imal, de Trans2/Grü/Théâtre du Grütli (Genève)