Under The Ground

Biño Sauitzvy

With Cyril Combes and Lorette Sauvet

Between dance, theater and circus, Under the Ground explores animist and ecosophist practices. At the heart of this creation: the forest, its inhabitants, its myths and legends.
The character occupying the center of the stage is none other than a tree, taking the opposite view of an anthropocentric approach placing man at the center of the universe. This majestic tree, created by visual artist Lika Guillemot, represents both an individual and a whole, an ecosystem from which other inhabitants will emerge.
It’s a micro and macro cosmos, revealing beneath its long roots and ramifications a whole other subterranean microcosm that we don’t see on the surface, in everyday life, in cities: hybrid living beings, half-human, half-plant, half-animal, fantastic beings populating mythological tales.
Initially in larval form, these beings find themselves linked, like the double beings at the origin of species described in Plato’s The Banquet. They then separate, in a process of individuation. Duality appears, one becomes two, and existential questions arise.
This is the origin of an archaic drama, the separation of complementary opposing principles. And it is through the example of this relationship, like that of the mythical Geminis (Cain and Abel, Romulus and Remo, Omama and Yosi, etc.), of the androgyne, but also of Beckett’s characters such as Didi and Gogo, Mercier and Camier, from their union to their separation in a battle for life, in a trajectory that is a branch of life, that this mythical drama is rewritten.

Distribution:
Design, direction and choreography:Biño Sauitzvy
Scenery: Lika Guillemot
Creation and performance: Lorette Sauvet and Cyril Combes
Music:Bianca Casady (CocoRosie)
Lights: Baptiste Joxe