Nos cœurs en terre

David Wahl and Olivier de Sagazan

In a breathtaking performance, David Wahl and Olivier de Sagazan take us along on the trail of vertiginous questions. What if there was such a thing as the sexuality of stones? Louis XIV's anatomist, Pierre Borel, claimed to have irrefutable proof of this in a century when those who believed the Earth to be inert and those who thought of it as a gigantic living organism were pitted against each other.

Our two artists, each as whimsical as the other, each obsessed with metamorphoses and transformations, plunge headlong into these controversies and enjoy 'kneading' the motifs, both literally and figuratively! Olivier de Sagazan's material is clay. He sculpts it, turning it into a new skin, a body for writing.

David Wahl's material is stories; stories that are often unknown, sometimes incredible, but always true and full of humour and poetry. In Nos coeurs en Terre, a troublingly beautiful show, they shape clay and words in a single gesture, offering us the chance to explore the origins of our world. It's a breathtaking work that's as much visual as it is spiritual!

In partnership with the Paris l'été Festival 

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DURATION - 50MIN

At the start of their performance, David Wahl and Olivier de Sagazan arrive in black suits. By the end, they have become a single clay being, born of the union of expert hands and agile words. These words are those of David Wahl, a playwright who goes his own way, completely indifferent to fashion, but totally inhabited by his passion for science and extravagant characters.
Le Monde - Brigitte Salino

In Nos cœurs en terre, the playwright and actor, accustomed to extraordinary stories about science, and the sculptor, who tends towards performance, come together on stage in a lascivious way to tell the story of our relationship with stone and the origin of minerals.
Libération - Eve Beauvallet

You'll feel closer to a plant than a telephone! (...) The performers and staging evoke the close affinity between biology and geology. In any case, the questions are raised.
Radio Nova - Marine Farrugia

A gripping poetic performance about our mineral origins.
Sciences & Avenir - Andreina De Bei

Conceived and performed by David Wahl and Olivier de Sagazan

Text David Wahl

Stage direction Gaëlle Hausermann

Lighting Jérôme Delporte

Stage Manager Anne Wagner dit Reinhardt

Sound Manager Alexis Dedieu

Photo Christophe Raynaud de Lage

Production : Incipit Coproduction SACD, Festival d'Avignon, Le Quartz - Scène nationale de Brest, Théâtre du Champ au Roy (Guingamp) - With support from the City of Brest, Région Bretagne, Conseil départemental du Finistère du Ministère de la Culture - DRAC Bretagne as part of the Plan de relance 2022 and the ONYX, Théâtre de Saint Herblain - Scène conventionnée d'intérêt national Art et Création pour la danse et les arts du cirque for the 2022/2023 revival - With the support of CENTQUATRE-PARIS - David Wahl is an associate artist of Océanopolis Brest, the National Centre for Scientific Culture dedicated to the Ocean. The text of the show is published by Premier Parallèle, under the title Le Sexe des pierres. photo Christophe Raynaud de Lage