“How can I say, we're not alone?
Everybody's phoning, nobody is connected
Is there a little faith in you?
Then say hello to lonesome people.”
Klangstabil “We may start”

 

During the last decades, there is a huge outbreak of social alienation. It is twice as dangerous than obesity and smoking. The number of people who feel alienated is increasing and the phenomenon seems to affect all ages. A person can undergo the consequences of loneliness, even if he of she doesn’t suffer from seclusion. In fact, it is an inner affective state with various -though not always evident-social implications.

“Say hello to lonesome people” dancetheatre performance creates through body movement and video projection, a whole universe which stares loneliness in the face, loneliness inside us or between us, elaborating a scenic process that leads to a deeper preoccupation. Through the constant and dualist process of proximity and distance, of space and emptiness, a question arises : how we can move from the pessimism of thought to the optimism of action, in other words to the “therapy through action”, and to an activism of life than can encompasses ourselves as well as the others.