The Vaud-based choreographer and dancer Géraldine Chollet, winner of the 2025 Swiss Performing Arts Prize, makes her debut at the LAC with La Tendresse du ventre de la baleine, a production which, by exploring the theological narrative of the Book of Jonah, weaves together dance, music and human relationships.
On stage, the dancers of the Compagnie Rahu LaMo – founded by Chollet herself in 2011 – surround the audience and move through them, generating with their movements a dense, visceral flow in which energy, power and presence merge. Amidst repetitive movements, choral dances and live music with pulsating, almost club-like rhythms, the audience is immersed in an intense sensory experience, where delicacy meets frenzy, like a wave that shakes and envelops.
A carnal and emotional experience, in which chaos and wonder echo one another. The intensity of the movements invites both introspection and sharing, sustained by pulsation and rhythm as vital and unifying forces, capable of generating a moment of community: something affectionate, tender and vulnerable.
