Geneviève Damas - Breathe

By and with Geneviève Damas "The difference between the women in my mother's family and those in my father's family comes down to this. In my father's family, they believe in their capacity for work. If money runs short, they know they are capable of creating more. They let money circulate. In my mother's family, the dowry confirms their incapacity. Women are pretty, fragile things who are incapable of providing for their own needs. Money worries them." On stage, Geneviève Damas tells us the story of a family, the values passed down through generations, the unspoken, money, and the anxieties it arouses. This story is her story. This family is her own. She gives us the gift of taking us into her intimacy, with complete simplicity. With a few projections of old family photos, she traces the thread of the years and tells us about her university-educated grandmother, her grandfather marked by the war, the dowry her mother offered her, her father's library… After delighting us with her previous creations (Quand tu es revenu, La Solitude du mammouth, Perfect Day…), Geneviève Damas returns with a sharp, confessional-style show. With the talent we know her for, she unravels the threads of her family history to better understand who she is today and her relationship with money. Respire is a true story. It tells how our lives are woven from other lives. How my relationship with money is directly linked to the way my mother's family went through the war. (...) It is a small story shattered by the big one. Thursday, April 1, 2027 8:00 PM Quenast Community Hall €18 - €15 (under 26) - Art.27