NOTE OF INTENT

In my work, everything revolves around space: the center, the edge, the frontier, the periphery. Trash Hall positions itself in the margins and attempts to make them the center. It is a group piece for five to six performers, set within an evolving environment that acts upon them: a ceiling that lowers, a wall that pushes bodies outward, gradually shrinking the space like an hourglass. Time passes, the pressure tightens. Bodies fall, are pushed aside, are rejected yet they also search for ways to reinvent how they exist.

This project is rooted in my personal and collective experiences. As someone from French Guiana, a territory marked by colonial history, I grew up with an acute awareness of what it means to be on the margins. I have also lived the reality of working-class neighborhoods in the Paris region, where urban space often reflects segregation and exclusion. Still today, events related to immigration, borders, and social and racial inequalities continue to fuel the same question: what does it mean to be pushed aside ? How do rejected spaces reshape our bodies and identities?

Certain encounters have deeply shaped my understanding of exclusion. During an intervention in a nursing home, I once danced for an elderly woman, isolated in her room. Her rejection of me was immediate, tied to her perception, to her history. That moment confronted me with a harsh truth: at certain times, we are all someone else’s excluded person.

This experience feeds my desire to create a space for dialogue and transformation around marginalization. Trash Hall will also be nourished by encounters with newly arrived migrants, with women and children, with elderly people, thanks to the support of Théâtre Louis Aragon. These exchanges will enrich the fabric of the piece, open new perspectives, and embody this intention to bring the margins to the center.