Déversoir

How could she give up contortionism when, far more than a technique, it is the bearer of a foundational existential drama? Angela Laurier has not only known happiness in her family, starting with the harrowing madness and psychiatric confinement of her brother; this brother, considered forever dependent on both the family and therapeutic circles, accompanies her on tour around the world. She is convinced that it was in witnessing his confinement that she decided to subject her own body to a form of torture rooted in inward folding and introspection—her own share of madness, her obsession. Déversoir is the culmination of an unusual project in autofictional physical theatre that also incorporates documentary elements. A virtuoso body placed in the service of an intensely intimate and violently personal subject.