L'art de vivre

Creation 2026

since I believe
that reality
is not real at all
how could I believe
that dreams are dreams *

To bring imaginary worlds on stage in the fragility of their artifice, and to rub them against the reality of the stage and the bodies in order to summon emotions shared by all of us—this is probably what drives us when we create our performances. Whether through bodily metamorphoses, as we have often explored, or through lyrical singing and the codes of opera—an experience we recently embraced—our subject always remains the same: to shape space and invent new states of the body in order to offer new worlds, if only for the duration of a performance.

We met Guillaume three years ago during the rehearsals of a production by Olivier Martin-Salvan that included the Catalyse troupe of the CNCA. (We were in charge of the set and costumes.)
Guillaume, a member of this troupe, is a young actor and dancer whose fluid and organic physical language, along with his stage presence—both gentle and powerful—carry an astonishing intensity.

Guillaume’s inner world seems to extend beyond him. Perhaps to protect him, but also to absorb part of the world around him and make it his own. By working with Guillaume, we wish—through his magnetic presence and qualities as a dancer—to explore his way of being in the world and of perceiving reality.

Fabien, a young actor trained at the École de la Comédie de Saint-Étienne, has been close to the Catalyse troupe for several years, having seen all of their productions. His hyperactive imagination, wide-ranging culture, and humorous stage presence delight us, as does his natural and genuine way of interacting with actors and actresses with disabilities.

To distort reality, invert the order of things, summon the unconscious and dreams: this is what the Surrealist artists did with such joy. On stage, we want to materialize a mental landscape and, with Guillaume and Fabien, invent ways of inhabiting it—during a dream that is at once within and outside the real world and its hardships.

Dance and the body are at the core of this work, but so too are words—those of Guillaume, with whom, together with dramaturg Baudouin Woehl, we will undertake a process of writing.

Direction, choreography, set and costume design Yvan Clédat and Coco Petitpierre

Cast Guillaume Drouadaine, Fabien Coquil
Sound design Stéphane Vecchione
Lighting design Yan Godat
Dramaturgy Baudoin Woehl
Textile assistant Anne Tesson
Administration, production, touring Iris Cottu & Clémence Huckel, Les Indépendances

Production TWENTYTWENTY

Co-productions Centre National pour la Création Adaptée – Morlaix, Le CN-D Centre national de la danse, Le Théâtre, Scène nationale de Mâcon, Les Subsistances, Le Quartz – Scène nationale de Brest, Théâtre Public de Montreuil – CDN, les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (in progress)

With the support of Fondation Hermès – Transforme

The company TwentyTwenty is supported by the French Ministry of Culture – DRAC Bretagne.

*Jacques Roubaud

Production, administration, touring
Clémence Huckel, Iris Cottu 
01 43 38 23 71 – production@lesindependances.com