We are pleased to announce the premiere of ANNETTE tonight at the Rideau in Brussels. After a long, intense, and inspiring journey, the creation of Clementine Colpin and Compagnie Canicule, in which our dramaturg Sara Vanderieck participated, is ready to meet its audience.

Plunging into the flesh of a 74-year-old woman as entering a forest. Wandering through sensitive memories and the twists and turns of her memory. Feeling the richness and complexity of one’s existence. Meeting Annette.

There are encounters that mark you forever. When Clementine meets Annette, it turns her relationship with the world upside down. Indomitable, filled with an insatiable desire to be elsewhere and for freedom, Annette always ended up leaving the roles in which she was caught (mother, wife, wife) to embrace new territories and to constantly reinvent herself.

During numerous interviews, she offers Clémentine more than 70 years of intimate experience, and she talks to her about her choices, the history of her body, her escapes, even the most violent ones. How can we share the gift of this given memory? By summoning Annette, two actresses and two dancers to the stage, and weaving these memories into fantasy worlds, this portrait in landscape format offers us another look at old age.

Between philosophical exploration and carnival celebration, between testament and collective dance, ANNETTE: a tribute to the multitudes that we are, to our metamorphoses and our rebirths.