The young French dancer and choreographer Clara Delorme, who has made Switzerland her home, presents Le repos, a work about sadness and pain, often experienced in solitude due to self-censorship or social conventions.

Designed for four performers, the show becomes a sort of collective lament, an invitation to cry together, to share the mourning for those we have lost – even those we have never known. For an hour, four women accompany sadness without wanting to resolve it, but choosing to experience it to the full, transforming it into a choreographic gesture of sharing.
Pain, accepted and experienced together, becomes dance, breath, presence. Farewell becomes a secular and necessary ritual, capable of restoring meaning and space to absence.
“Aesthetically,” says Delorme, “I am inspired by the very specific colours and sensations of the blue hour and dawn. I want to recreate that suspended calm, that openness, that connection with the unknown that I feel at those times of day. The cry is open: whoever wants to join in, do so.”