Le Grand Sommeil

Representing the adult-child bond in a way other than through rivalry or the classic mother-daughter relationship: this was Marion Siéfert's initial project. She wanted to bring actress and performer Helena de Laurens and Jeanne, her 11-year-old cousin, together on stage. However, due to child labor laws, the latter was unable to appear on stage. In the end, Helena de Laurens became a duo in her own right, a hybrid being who questions our relationship with the norm and what we need to transgress in order to grow up. With her slender body, this "tall child" deploys her choreographed movements and grimaces to the extreme to evoke fear, pleasure or malice. Marion Siéfert, author and director, has always explored the way in which children are struck by adults and left to their own devices on social networks.
After Le Grand Sommeil, she also met with great success with jeanne_dark (performed by Helena de Laurens here too), a show thought up for Instagram at the height of Covid, and then with Daddy about pedocriminality in the digital age.