Chiens

Chiens is based on a major court case, commonly referred to as the "porn trial". This case calls into question the extreme violence of the mainstream pornographic industry, trivializing serious violations of human dignity.

As for the show, it embarrasses our ideal of justice, as well as the organization and conditioning of the contemporary penal system. It questions the history of our gaze through the prism of the pornographic industry, beyond good and evil.

Chiens attempts to put the inaudible victims of a system of representations back at the center, and to operate tipping points. The oxymoronic confrontation between the liturgical form of music and its dialogue with pornography lays violence bare, ridicules the norm, contests, repossesses its confiscated conflicts, frees itself.

Organized around two Bach cantatas adapted by Othman Louati, to which is added original music he composed, Chiens features a hybrid choir mixed with dramatic and lyrical performers accompanied by the musicians of Miroirs Étendus.