Biography

Sept fois la langue combines acrobatics, movement, object theatre and site-specific writing in public space with a desire to tell stories that people can love and dream about. Committed to mediation and the physical generosity of our shows, we trust springing, dancing and falling bodies to share our joy of play and our desire to be together. 
Sept fois la langue is a French-Swiss company founded in 2022. We strive to be part of a momentum shared by many contemporary creations that seek to cultivate a subversive joy, a joy of resistance to fear and the increasing weight of the world. With this impulse, the stories we tell do not merely entertain us, they expand our shared imagination, and, ever so slightly, make us more free.

Artistic project

Jumping, rolling, falling together and hanging on. Chutes libres will be a rhythmic and visual piece written for public space and performed by 6 actors and acrobats. Urban furniture will be used as a means to explore the links between physical imbalance and inner, emotional imbalance. Doors, lampposts and staircases will be included in a non-verbal site-specific piece, which will unfold in 3 different locations.

We will combine movement and play to create a poetic, visual and rhythmic piece mixing choral writing, movement, stunts and acting. 
Our research will stem from an observation: in the street as elsewhere, and in a thousand ways, we are falling. Not just because of the unexpected lamppost that leaves a lasting impression, or the petty sidewalk that ruins all chances of being respectable. We also fall from within: our joys, our darkest angers, our excessive love, and our fear of not being good enough. In one of the last spaces to welcome us all, we pass each other by, unaware that others are also falling, that they are falling like us, perhaps even falling with us. Chutes libres uses public space to shed new light on what we have in common and what makes us human: our falls.

Format: non-verbal site-specific piece

Size of audience: from 1 to 400 people

Specific location: urban space, walkabout through 3 different locations

Timing / duration: day performance of one hour