Origin of a Tale

Between dance and storytelling, and all while manipulating sounds and clay, the actor-sculptors will tell a story of the fables, and take you on a journey through time and space. It is as if they are going back in time, digging into the origins of the first stories, perhaps even before words, borders, rules and obstacles existed.

As the stories bring us together, the actors make and create shapes: a donkey, a turtle, a cow, a tree “that thought it was stronger than all”, a frog, an elephant, a man in a canoe.

And what if the first fable was born of clay? Artists Aurélien Zouki and Eric Deniaud knead and continue to create, inviting us to travel with them through time and space, on a poetic expedition into the strata of speech.