Baùbo - De l'art de n'être pas mort

It all begins with mourning. A woman is trying to learn to live without the love she once felt. Distraught, she looks for ways to survive in the face of lack, and clings to anything that can help her do so: language, philosophy, or more prosaically, trivial and sometimes comical situations.

Inspired by the figure of Baùbo, a goddess who, by exposing herself, unleashes great laughter in Greek mythology, this theatrical and musical creation plays on the contrasts between desires and realities. Working by association of ideas, as in a waking dream, musicians and actors interpret this organic, sensory ensemble, playing with jolts, ruptures and images of great intensity. Based on Greek myth, works by composer Heinrich Schütz and other material, Jeanne Candel and musical director Pierre-Antoine Badaroux offer us a "passion of today" in which Baroque music and theater intertwine with great freedom and humor.

This show blends sacred and profane like so many contradictory impulses that punctuate our lives in love.