La Tendresse du ventre de la baleine, spectacle de Géraldine Chollet au Carreau du Temple

A blue wave, like a federating movement, washes over the audience in creative gentleness. Where pulse and rhythm become the life forces of a piece of dance, music, and above all, relationships. An act of sharing, sensory and free.

Géraldine Chollet choreographs relationships in transformation, envisioning dance as a way to create bonds, care, and solidarity. Hence the idea of tenderness when she draws free inspiration from the myth of Jonah traversing the sea in the belly of a whale. Jonah ends up being spat out with, within them, snatches of a forgotten dance: the dance of joy, whose deep resonances Chollet explores within each person. This immemorial memory invites sharing and openness, Jonah's journey being mentioned in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Scriptures.

And the encounter takes place. The audience takes their seats in a square space to be surrounded and even swept through by eight dancers, all dressed in blue and arriving in waves, between delicacy and frenzy, alongside a guitarist-singer and a DJ. Winner of the Swiss Performing Arts Award, Géraldine Chollet invites us to an intense, sensory experience that allows the exploration of our deepest inner whirlpools.

As part of Swiss Dance Week 2026

With the Centre culturel suisse à Paris

A show of pure beauty, retinal as much as sensory.

Culturieuse,