Choreography by Caroline Grosjean
The sentinels are those children who stand quietly in an undergrowth or a meadow, while observing the bark of a charm or the flight of a heron, who venture into the thickets in pursuit of a cricket or kneel at the edge of a pond, a hand in a visor, to have fun with the ballet of the mallards. Choreographer Caroline Grosjean was and remains one of those sentinels of the living. Daughter of a teacher, granddaughter of a professor of natural sciences, she remembers perfectly how the desire to spend time in nature was transmitted to her. She wanted to make this passing from one generation to another the theme of her new participatory show. She invited children and adults (fathers or mothers, most often, but also grandmothers, uncles, etc.) to join the dance. She has taken out of her conceptual toolbox a few choreographic motifs – a way of walking in unison, a very special way of looking, a carry that carries… – that children and adults happily put on. With them, Caroline Grosjean draws in the space of the abbey gardens a journey to meet the living.