Open My Chest

Presented by Le Théâtre du Merlan. Faced with so much uncertainty and crisis, joy seems to be eroding and optimism running out of breath... " This line becomes the starting point for an attempt at resuscitation.

Ahead of this creation, young adults were invited to share the references that drive them: music, films, video games and YouTube videos, images, novels, poems… Conceived as a digital time capsule, this collective compilation serves as an artefact, a springboard for choreographic, scenographic and musical writing.

The piece offers a subjective, sensory reading of it, in which Julien Lepreux's sound layers and leisurely t's electronic melodies extend the imaginative world of this retro-futuristic construction site.

A landscape where dystopian and post-apocalyptic worlds meet contemplation, where tension sits alongside melancholy, and where, despite everything, the desire for connection persists. Open my chest and place our tomorrows inside is open-heart surgery.

Far from claiming that everything will be fine, it is about testing what still remains possible — not to celebrate hope, but to check that this heart is still beating...