This is a piece for seven performers, freely inspired by the book Les Guérillères by Monique Wittig. They assert triumphantly that every movement is an upheaval.
As a continuation of its research and feminist choreographic exploration, with AMAZONS the company asserts the transition from singular to plural, from solitude to the group, from the untamed figure to the pack, the horde. Drawing on the experience of producing Là, se délasse Lilith… Manifestation d’un corps libertaire (a 2018 production), the Company is now turning towards a symbolic, plural figure through the Amazons.
The Amazons are a legendary, romanticised tribe, which faded away and was reclaimed, as was the case in its own way with the character of Lilith. They also represent a symbol of freedom which is embraced and displayed, requiring the radical independence of a female group. This kind of independence, which was intolerable and unthinkable for a societal model rooted in a patriarchal system of beliefs, morality and actions, earned them as much mockery as admiration, as can various modern feminist initiatives today.