In search of escape lines between past and present, of attempts to express a diversity of points of view - of humans from here and elsewhere, of birds, mosquitoes, rivers... -, Or L'Oiseau (But the Bird / The Golden Bird) invites us to trace the thread of the "Plantationcene" of which the island of São Tomé was the first laboratory.

Emerging on Earth as a new form of violence against living beings, the plantations, created for the exploitation of the essences of some plant traded all over the world, are at the centre of the enslavement of several human populations.

Or L'Oiseau responds to the invitation to question with sensitivity the different
environments that shape the island.

What are the forms of plantations that are perpetuated today?
How do they affect the relationships between species?
What can choreographic knowledge do to narrate these questions?

The thread is pulled, gets tangled, sometimes to rest in the lianas of the forest, which receive it and take care of it.

Creation: Joanne Clavel & Emma Tricard
Choreography and Artistic Direction: Emma Tricard