With Emmanuel Coutris, La Flâme, Saïd Gharbi, Nathalie Milon
The four performers in vision are dancers, singers, musicians, actors and actresses. They are also visually impaired to varying degrees. Blurry, double or peripheral vision, or not seeing at all becomes the inspiration for an installation that proposes a new way of sharing space with the audience, drawing on sound, touch and solidarity.
For many years, Compagnie Shōnen has created collective works bringing together artists from a wide range of disciplines concerned with disability, with the aim of challenging normative ways of seeing and rethinking artistic processes from production through to performance. Choreographers Eric Minh Cuong Castaing and Aloun Marchal, together with dramaturge Marine Relinger, invite audiences into theatre sets that circumvent obstacles and open up spaces for unexpected encounters on stage. Following HIKU by Eric Minh Cuong Castaing and Anne-Sophie Turion, presented at Comédie de Genève in 2025, vision offers a new invitation to shift our gaze and reconsider our point of view.
With Emmanuel Coutris, La Flâme, Saïd Gharbi, Nathalie Milon
Concept: Eric Minh Cuong Castaing, Aloun Marchal and Marine Relinger
Choreography: Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, Aloun Marchal
Dramaturgy: Marine Relinger
Lighting Design: Sébastien Lefevre
Set Design: Pia de Compiègne
Costume Design: Silvia Romanelli
Guest Sound Artist: Anna Holveck
Production Management and Administration: Maxime Kottmann
Producer: Carla Alberny
Communications and Production Support: Dana Galindo
Residency Support: Le Zef – Scène nationale de Marseille, Collection Lambert, Les Hivernales – CDCN d’Avignon
Produced by Compagnie Shōnen
Co-produced by Comédie de Genève, Agora – Cité Internationale de la Danse, Théâtre du Châtelet – Performing Arts Hub, Friche Belle de Mai, Le Carreau du Temple – Établissement culturel et sportif de la Ville de Paris, Les SUBS – a living space for artistic experimentation, Centre National de la Création Adaptée (CNCA), 3 bis f – Centre d’arts contemporains and Charleroi danse – Choreographic Centre of Wallonia-Brussels, ICK Dans Amsterdam
Residency Support: Le Zef – Scène nationale de Marseille, La Collection Lambert en Avignon, La FabricA du Festival d’Avignon, Les Hivernales – CDCN d’Avignon and Agefiph
Studio Support: Marseille Objectif DansE
Public Funding: Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Private Support: With the support of the Fonds Haplotès, the Francis Kurkdjian Endowment Fund and Adami.
Thanks to the participants in the research workshops at Comédie de Genève, the Festival Montpellier Danse 2026, the UNADEV PACA (National Union of Blind and Visually Impaired People), and the association Aix en Vue.
The production premiered at the Montpellier Danse Festival 2026.
