Description

Going against its own direction, and at the same time, unknowingly, getting closer to its path.<p> Contresens is a clownish piece of gestural, visual, acrobatic, and object theatre, which explores existence and the boundaries between Life and Death in a sensory way, within an "invented society" that is moving towards the extinction of self and the mechanization of the mind.</p><p> The concept of the foreigner, as well as the relationship to identity, technology, and the Other, are examined to the point of absurdity. How can one exist today, in society, while remaining true to oneself?</p><p> The story begins on an ordinary day in the life of Cara, secretary of the Namdal city cultural department, who, like every weekday, spends her 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in her "mobile office," a desk strapped to her body. But as she's heading home, an accident occurs... Disrupting the course of her life and plunging her into previously unimaginable realities, Cara dies.</p><p> She will become the spirit of her angels and the body of her demons in a journey through her own Hades.</p><p> Is this what it means to be dead? Or perhaps alive?</p><p> An initiatory, immersive and existential journey that invites you to become an observer of your own life and to reconsider social codes and norms.</p>