Un Fauteuil pour l'Orchestre
Autotherapie: Unbolting Colonial Statues from Our Consciousness | Nicolas Thévenot | 2026
Selected excerpts
Original
« Il faut le voir pour le croire. »
« Une nouvelle écriture du corps, épiphanique, où l'archive n'est plus représentée mais incarnée. »
English
"It has to be seen to be believed.”
"A new, almost epiphanic writing of the body, where the archive is no longer represented but embodied."
Critical abstract
In this extensive review, Nicolas Thévenot interprets Autotherapie as a work of revelation rather than representation. The performance is described as a carefully constructed environment in which choreography, text, music, and visual composition gradually uncover obscured histories. Particular attention is given to Bergile's choreographic language, which the critic sees as a new form of embodied writing—one capable of carrying historical memory without illustrating it directly. The review praises the work's exceptional visual precision and its ability to transform the stage into a site where personal experience and collective history become inseparable.