Charles Mounal and Chloé Dorémieux form a duo of performers mainly focused on the question of alterity and connection, both with each other and with the audience. Their work is based on the following principles:
- LOVE: Find the connection
- SUFFER: Find the limit
- Love is real
- Suffering is real
- Set the frame, NOT the path
- Set the frame, NOT the destination
- Draw him towards the body
- Draw her towards the words
AH!
How a single order can transform individuals into a crowd and alter their consciousness.
Crédits photo : Bernard Bousquet @ Le Générateur
« Prevent us from touching at all costs »: from this injunction, the cry is born, continuing until our skins are in contact. Bodies enclosed, he discovers her words, she his, until the next separation.
Presented at Le Générateur, Paris, October 2023
Duration: 10-20 minutes
DESERT
Alone in the world, how to find each other (and is it really necessary?).
Crédits photo : Bernard Bousquet @ Le Générateur
Blind and deaf until we find each other, the audience can guide us, distance us, ignore us, or hurt us. In our heads and words, a single and same desert, where we search in vain.
Presented at Le Générateur, Paris, January 2024
Duration: 1-2 heures
TO THE CLIFF
Our rawest intentions and purest feelings can never fully reach the other.
Crédits photo : PhilS @ Le Générateur
Enclosed, first invisible, the cages prevent us from directly communicating. Even when freed, it’s up to the audience to transmit, execute the instructions, emotions, needs to the other – never exactly as we would want.
Presented at Le Générateur, Paris, July 2024
Duration: 1-2h
BEHIND (water)CLOSED DOORS
As an artist, what is real & who are you, when the public is about to kill you?
Crédits photo : Bernard Bousquet @ Le Générateur
The public can spy on us and listen, while we’re locked behind closed doors. As soon as they decide to, they can interrupt us and force us to perform, choosing the constraints: who, how, for whom. When they choose the ‘for yourselves’ audience, we perform without thinking about the public gaze. Is there a way to make art without thinking about the eyes that undress us?
Presented at Le Générateur, Paris, October 2024
Duration: 1-2h
DETRUIRE, DISENT-ILS
To be born, to love each other, to tear each other apart— and then?
Crédits photo : Bernard Bousquet @ Le Générateur
Love soothes as much as it isolates. When we break free from it, we cross deserts, landscapes, and without searching, we find something in the end.
Presented at Le Générateur, Paris, January 2025
Duration: 1-2h
LOVEISLAVA
When night falls, there is only one heart left to steal.
Crédits photo : Bernard Bousquet, Thibault Paris, JC Dichant @ Le Générateur
In the dark, the participants fight to be the last one standing. Until they must choose—their life, or one of ours.
Presented at Le Générateur, Paris, October 2024
Duration: 1-2h