The Song of the Earth

Born in the wake of several disappearances, this cycle of lyrical poems blends intoxication with melancholy and, like a last embrace in the face of the inescapable, alternately spares fever and contemplation. Today, Chloé Lechat transforms this extraordinary work into a scenic ritual, where the grammar of the body, music and movement tell what words can no longer say.

On stage, two singers wander among the ruins of a world at war, discovering the memories that inhabit deserted homes. How can we pay tribute to these vanished lives? Between past and present, between relics, dreamed visions and reality, this infinitely poetic staging plays with the fragments of memory that haunt the living and attempt to conjure up absence.

Combining music, dancers, animated film and theater, Le Chant de la Terre invites us to find a language to exorcise loss, and to share our sorrows in order to shed them. Because mourning is not just about saying goodbye, it's also about learning to welcome the diffused light left behind by those who have gone...

A sensitive, visceral, essential and profoundly human experience.

Sung in German, with French surtitles.

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