Descend
✧ PRIX MAETERLINCK ✧
✧ NOMINATED as BEST DANCE PIECE ✧
✧ NOMINATED as EMERGING TALENT : VIOLETTE WANTY ✧
✧ RENCONTRES DE LA SABAM 2024 ✧
✧ DESCENDRE : AWARD-WINNING TEXT ✧
PRESS
“ While Héloïse Jadoul's voice-over recounts the story in a striking blend of strength and emotion, Violette Wanty dances it without ever falling into the illustration of the facts we are told. Here, the body carries the frenzy of the beginnings, the movement of the waves that capsize us, the hesitations, the sudden flights, the collapses, the attempts to get back up... And this parallel evolution between an intimate story and a dancing body keeps us constantly on the edge of our seats and shakes us to the core.”
★★★ LE SOIR /J.M Wynants
INTERVIEW Eléonore Valère-Lachky
RADIO RTBF / VRT 07/10/24 from 24 min
” Wonderfull text ”
Cindya Izzarelli / KIOSK
"When the symbiosis between sound, text, and movement is perfect, dance never seeks to merely illustrate the message. The intimate story and choreography evolve side by side, weaving together a profoundly moving tale."
★★★★ Didier Beclard/ Le Suricate
INTERVIEW
LA LIBRE BELGIQUE / Stéphanie Bocart
Radio Interview Eléonore Valère-Lachky
KIOSK/RTBF 06/03/25 from 20min
CREDITS
CHOREGRAPHY, TEXT, DIRECTION Eléonore Valère-Lachky
DANCER , SINGER Violette Wanty
ACTRESS VOICE OVER Heloïse Jadoul
MUSICALE CREATIONS Manu Sampaio
SOUND Jérémy Michel
LIGHTS Jean-françois Philips /Anton Lachky
COSTUMS Britt Angé
READERS Sabrine Durand / Marie Valère
SUBTITLES Guido Welkenhuysen
TRANSLATION NL Ann Michiels
PRODUCTION ANTON LACHKY & ELEONORE VALERE COMPANY
COPRODUCTION Les Brigittines - Centre d’Art contemporain du Mouvement de la Ville de Bruxelles
WITH THE SUPPORT OF Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Service de la Danse, La Loterie Nationale
DESCEND is a portrait of a woman standing before the sea. Unsettled by its motion, its waves, she no longer remembers why she shouldn’t jump. Through dance and narration, she explores the dual nature of water: its beauty and danger, its rhythm and chaos. Should we turn our backs on the ocean ? On the inner seas that rise and fall within us ? On the tides that shape our bodies and thoughts ?
Should we silence the sirens once and for all?
In this story, Ulysses is a woman.
DATES
2025-2026
27/10/25 Présentation of the text DESCENDRE at “lundis en coulisse"
02/12/25 DESCEND CWB / PARIS (FR) (PREMIERE FRANÇAISE)
28/02/26 DESCEND STAATSTHEATER/ MAINZ (DE) (PREMIERE ALLEMANDE)
19/03/26 DESCEND ZEPPELIN St-André Lez Lille (FR)
20/03/26 DESCEND ZEPPELIN St-André Lez Lille (FR)
09/04/2026 DESCEND CC Stavelot - Trois ponts (BE)
2026-2027
19/09/26 DESCEND Festial plesnih minijatura /ZAGREB (CR) (PREMIERE CROATE)
19/11/26 DESCEND Centre culurel de Wanze (BE)
2024-2025
13/03/2025 19:00 LES BRIGITTINES / BRUXELLES PREMIERE
14/03/2025 19:00 LES BRIGITTINES / BRUXELLES
15/03/2025 19:00 LES BRIGITTINES / BRUXELLES
DESCENDRE is presented as part of the Festival Puissance seules aux Brigittines at Les Brigittines.
