Lymph Blood Story 9424

Choreographer Julie Botet underwent a glossectomy at the age of four following the proliferation of a rare congenital malformation to the tongue. Glossectomy comes from the Greek: glôssa, tongue and ektomein, to cut and thus means to cut the tongue. Lymph Blood Story is a choreographic, photographic and textual solo, which takes this intimate story as its starting point. A phenomenon that has likely disturbed, oriented the artist's relationship to language, words, and voice.

Lymph Blood Story takes the form of an autobiographical freak show, i.e. an exhibition of rare biological creatures, referred to as "freaks of nature" in popular culture. By appropriating and hijacking the codes and staging of exhibition, the choreographer aims to question the nature of the reception of freak shows, on the borderline between fascination and pity, desire and disgust. By underlining the paradox of this form that exposes monsters while making the non-standard existing and visible. This piece takes up the question of the normativity of faces and the complex feeling of being the freak, between fairground beast and textbook case.