La Zankà Company

Artistic genre: Performance
Year the show was created: 2023

"40 Small Ceremonies to Repair the World: Humans and Bicycles" is an initiative at the intersection of healing, lecture, and ceremony.
The world it unfolds navigates between Tuareg cosmogony and Japanese Kiguchi, celebrates failure and the fleeting nature of life, and explores holistic therapies and the origins of moods. But also many other things..."

Cynthia and Andrei are “guides” who take you into “the zone.” Guided by these two companions, the group will immerse itself in a role-playing game, a ceremony, a healing experience, exploring what might need “repairing” within you. For “the zone” is a “magical” place where one can synchronize one’s inner nature with that of the worlds around us. To get there, the audience will pass through several symbolic, emotional, and phantasmagorical portals… Part street theater, part experiential performance, and part personal development therapy, Cosmic Care serves as an autopsy of the relationship our society maintains with the concept of “care.”

CARE takes place in healthcare settings and explores the generative nature of vulnerability, the atmosphere of care, and the crucial issue of small gestures of kindness. Furthermore, this series draws inspiration from scholars, but we express these ideas in our own words—and sometimes without words—and in multiple languages (including Toki Pona).

CAST AND CREW: Written, directed, and performed by: Zineb Benzekri and Jérémy Morelle / External consultant: Fabienne Quemeneur / Video: Lourent Chourau / Lighting: Guillaume Desnoulet