FANTÔME, MON BEAU FANTÔME

Description

Music: Françoise Albelda
Text: Virgile Elias Gehrig
Direction: Joëlle Valtério
Dancers: Audrey Bestenheider, Yannaëlle Loo, Audrey Albelda
Actors: Léonard Bertholet
Lighting Design: Jean-Etienne Bettler
Sound Design: David Barras
Costumes: Laetitia Burcher-Forclaz
Administration: Solange Schifferdecker
Production: Association T'Y (Sion)

Are ghosts perhaps those beings who resist the fate that the living have in store for them? They "break out," escape oblivion, and call themselves to memory. And sometimes it happens that those who have left us return. The boundary between reality and mystery is fluid. Based on three texts inspired by anthropological narratives, the play stages these transgressions, these encounters. When the boundary between the living and the dead crumbles, unusual spaces emerge at the edges of our conventions and beliefs. The performance integrates a dancer with Down syndrome into a team of professional artists. Inclusion is not a symbolic gesture: physical uniqueness becomes a dramatic richness. It shifts the perspective. This inclusive approach also includes a dancer over the age of 55. Her body carries memory, experience, and a strong presence. Between narrative, musical vibrations, and visual poetry, the audience is invited to enter a world where it is no longer clear who – the living or the ghosts – actually populates the stage.