Directed by Julie Tenret, who graduated from INSAS, the company Focus from Brussels creates shows combining theater of objects, puppets, actors and video. The scenic language she proposes is essentially visual metaphorical, poetic, artisanal, very close to a cinematographic writing. Her shows are aimed to all audiences and deal with social issues starting from the intimate, the infra-ordinary to reach the universal.

Trained in the gestural arts, Sicaire Durieux and Sandrine Heyraud created Chaliwaté company in 2005. Based in Brussels, they defend a visual language without words, poetic, physical and artisanal, mixing gestural theatre, object theatre, circus and dance. For them, gesture is a singular means of creating evocative, suggestive and metaphorical images.

Focus company and Chaliwaté company came together to write a collective performance in 2016. For a long time they have been following and appreciating each other’s work. It became clear that they had a similar approach to their art and it was obvious that they shared a common taste for unusual theatrical forms. As if they spoke the same visual, artisanal and poetic language.