Le Salon revisited

Created in 2004, Le Salon is a darkly playful portrait of a family in decline, where four generations confront loss, inherited trauma, and unspoken secrets. Now, more than 20 years later, we pay another visit to this living room that became a mirror of private and collective consciousness.

On stage, we observe a once-wealthy family struck by a financial, material, physical, and psychological decline. The performance first delves into the buried taboos between the family members. Through the simultaneous presence of four generations, the invisible inheritance, passed down from ancestor to their children, becomes tangible through movement.

This unconscious family legacy also brought the creators, as parents, back to a primal fear: the fear of losing a child. Gradually, this becomes a central axis of the project: a story of a couple who loses what is most precious to them, and exploring how they survive the aftermath. They stumble between collapse and resilience, where sorrow and unexpected laughter coexist.

Finally, the space itself plays its own role: as a silent witness, the living room is where everyday life accumulates over time. It stores gestures, routines, and conflicts that outlive their inhabitants, becoming a family archive over time.

20+ years after its creation, this salon is still building on the past and lays bare a hard question: are we learning from the past or are we endlessly repeating history?

Performed by a new ensemble of six artists: three dancers, a singer, an actor and a baby