Here Be Lions

For two years Stéphane Olry sporadically shared the daily life of the patients and caregivers at the hospital for multi-handicapped children in La Roche-Guyon. Children aided by complicated apparatuses children without access to language whose inner life remains unknown for us. How can this troubling andnevertheless joyous journey at their side be related?<br/><br/>Stéphane Olry plunges us into a thick fog. Deprived of vision the spectators are surrounded by voices intonations that are sometimes documentary sometimes mysterious and shapeless. They weave a landscape in which the concrete environment of the work and relationships at the hospital is turned upside-down by the sensitive experiences of the dancers and child-bodies. Probing a world deemed inaccessible to attempt to fill a blank space. Like the Latin cartographers who wrote in the spaces of the yet unexplored deserts: hic sunt leones here are the lions.<br/>