Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté (BE)

At the intersection of dance, theatre, images and animated forms, Nicole Mossoux and Patrick Bonté’s productions explore the dark zones of our subconscious and the contradictions that reveal the complexity of our actions and behaviour. “Les Arrière-Mondes” (Backworlds) is a shimmering tale of fickleness, self-doubt and lustful torment – as if dropped out of history and time. They burst into the light, dishevelled creatures gazing into bottomless mirrors, noble ladies from the 15th century, water-headed twins, a headless woman, a mysterious Medusa, bald angels, twitching dancing mermaids, Shiva’s ghosts or furious lovers in a frenzy. A panopticon between dream and apocalypse. As if they had escaped the mists of time, the eternal survivors of history.

“Les Arrière-Mondes” casts a ghostly light on the enigmas of our present. In splashy images, as elegiac as they are cuttingly lurid, infinitely slow and yet of a rapid urgency, they spill one morality tale after another. Lavish and opulent.

“Les Arrière-Mondes combines the fantastic with the mundane, the tragic and grotesque, humour with horror, the poetic with the trivial moments. Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté delivers a fascinating production that could not be more timeless.” (Le Soir, 2021)