Je suis une montagne

In Je suis une montagne (I’m a mountain), the stage is physically inhabited by heat, rain, wind, deep rumbles, and the scents of plains and deserts. Rain falls, light pierces through the clouds to create dawns, halos, and radiant suns; it envelops bodies with its strength before withdrawing to make way for the night.

Placed directly on this stage, suspended above the ground, the spectator is invited to let the elements pass through them—not to be active in shielding themselves or attempting to control these forces but rather to allow them in. With closed eyes, they become a tree, a rock, a mountain. The elements will exist around them, through them, and within them. Je suis une montagne invites us to experience our world differently, through a lens other than our own.

What would our perception of the world be if we were a tree, if we were a mountain? Another world emerges—a different relationship to time, the elements, space, and ourselves. By encouraging a sense of surrender and communion and through a choreography that brings together the bodies of the elements and the spectator’s own, Je suis une montagne offers an experience of the present moment.