Empire of a Faun Imaginary

Yearning for transformation and new futures, Empire of a Faun Imaginary is a melancholic world in search of the miraculous, that asks: How can we go on, and how can we dream again? Choreographer Simone Mousset creates a cosmos in which things remain in a state of limbo. Inspired by the experience of the pandemic, she asks about possible alternative worlds. How can a melancholic, elusive experience of the world be reopened to the miraculous and the magical? The piece combines vocal work, visual art, and bodies in movement to explore our tussle with a contradictory, messy, and uncertain world, where horror and beauty carry on a strange dialogue. The four dancers create paths that point through the ungraspable today into a possible future. Their movements give expression to a world that has come apart at the seams. Together they deliver an enchanting meditation on how to deal with an uncanny present.