ON M’A TROUVÉE GRANDIE

When new magic takes hold of the poetry of uprising, ecstasy, and enigma, the result is a breathtaking phantasmagorical experience. Apparitions, disappearances, levitations: On m'a trouvée grandie unfolds the power of a spectacular visual language for a sensitive dive into the heart of the Salpêtrière in the late nineteenth century.

In 1896, Madeleine, a mysterious patient who would spend her life on tiptoe, claims to rise from the ground. Facing her, a fascinated doctor tries to pierce the enigma through hypnosis and bring her back to reason. Inspired by a dark chapter of medical history, Valentine Losseau crafts a fascinating creation around the poignant destiny of women labeled hysterical, torn between incomprehension and resistance.

In a prodigious stage design, bodies seem to float. Driven by the choreography of Leïla Ka, this theatre of realities becomes a dizzying sensory crossing.