SM (Company) - Morgane Stephan & Magalie Lanriot
AXIS
Vertical Dance

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Show length: 20 min
Capacity: 800
  • Dance
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • people with disabilities
For all ages

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Suspended from a facade, two figures explore the space that connects and separates them. The building becomes an axis—AXIS—that guides their movement and their relationship to gravity. Between closeness and distance, their movements shift points of reference and fully reveal their fragility. Within the verticality of the facade, lines and supports delineate the space of a relationship where balance, tension, and encounter are constantly reinvented. Yet AXIS is simultaneously human and architectural: it manifests as an abstraction that guides the body in its relationship with the other, with gravity, and with the urban space. Purely rational, and yet exposed to the complexity of all that is human.

Suspended on a facade, two bodies navigate the space that both connects and divides them. The building becomes an axis—“AXIS”—guiding their movement and shaping their relationship to gravity. Moving between closeness and distance, they shift the frame of reference, fully exposing their fragility. Along the vertical plane, lines and points of support trace the contours of a relationship where balance, tension, and encounter unfold in a suspended dramaturgy. At once human and architectural, "AXIS" operates as an abstract force—orienting the body in relation to the other, to gravity, and to the urban landscape. It is both rigorously structured and inevitably entangled with the complexity of human experience.

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SM Company

Morgane Stephan

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Phone: +33 6 04 18 18 07
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AXIS

Year established: 2025

Choreographers & dancers: Magalie Lanriot & Morgane Stephan / Rigging: Hartmut Reichel / Music composition: Pierrick Bacher / Technicians: Oliver Selmoni & Ricardo Figueira / Administration: Cie SM / Booking agent: Joao Salgado.

CO-PRODUCTIONS: Mudac – Photo Elysée / PLATEFORME 10, Lausanne (Switzerland), as part of Museum Night 2025.

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