On an ordinary Sunday, a husband and wife are having breakfast at the table, as the old nanny slowly descends the stairs. The family’s normal conversation is suddenly intruded by raging winds and torrential rain. The cups and plates are flying everywhere, and the house is shaking in the storm, but the family completely ignore the absurd chaos surrounding them.

Meanwhile, three wildlife reporters are driving to the end of the world to document the earth’s last living species whose existence threatened by climate disasters. The undulation of the performer’s body forms the mountains, where the toy car crawls in the snowy forest. First appearing from the distant, it moves closer and closer until the three reporters in the car are clearly visible, who struggle forward in a painstakingly awkward but yet hilarious manner.  The staging of the work adopts cinematic techniques, using close-ups, wide shots and tracking shots to visualize the insignificance and fragility of humans in the face of catastrophes.      

One Sunday with two storylines, Dimanche interweaves realistic and fictional vocabularies to depict an end-of-the-world scene as a mockery of how humans intentionally stay unaware of the ecological collapse. 

Dimanche is a three-year collaboration between   Chaliwaté Company and Focus Company. Chaliwaté ompany is known for its use of pantomime, physical, and gesture theatre, while Focusompany focuses more on puppetry, object theatre, and video.   Dimanche  has won numerous international awards and performedmore than 400 performances around the world.

Chaliwaté Company

Founded by Sicaire Durieux and Sandrine Heyraud in 2005, Chaliwaté Company explores the possibilities of non-verbal performance which mixes pantomime, gesture theatre, object theatre, circus and dance to create works charged with physical and visual impact.  

Chaliwaté Company has worked with interdisciplinary artists to co-create numerous works winning international awards as well as worldwide acclaim with its more than 1000 performances around the world.  In 2018, it was awarded the SACD Belgium Prize in "Gestual Theatre" for all their shows.  
 

Focus Company

Focus Company was founded by Julie Tenret in 2018 and has been known for its integration of object, puppetry, and video. The cinematic language Tenret  proposes often touches upon contemporary issues.  Before Focus Company, shecreated Fragile and Silence, both of critical and box-office success with 300 performances around the world respectively.