Compagnie Babel Brings "Nos Corps désirants" to La Tempête

Compagnie Babel stages "Nos Corps désirants" at La Tempête, a performance built around six interpreters who interrogate the troubled zones of desire. The company's research began with the field of collective representations — pictorial and musical, scholarly and popular — in an attempt to chart a nuanced spectrum of desire in an era of generalized suspicion. On stage, the production moves from the abduction of Proserpine to that of Psyche, and from the birth of Spring in the painter's eye to evocations closer to surrealism, assembling a gallery that dazzles the eyes while harboring more secret monsters. The piece asks how desire can be made desirable again, and how one might dare to take the risk of the other today. Its performers sort through each person's inheritance — a vast memorial attic — asking what should be kept and what should be permanently shelved, and what new relationships might be invented to recover the joy of being together without mistrust. The production is presented as a partner event of the Club Artistik Rezo, with details drawn from a press release.