The earth is shaking, everything is disintegrating. A child is facing a blank canvas and starts to create a new world with black colour. The child’s only tools are it’s own body and the colour. Bit by bit, a new universe emerges: forests, clouds, birds and whales. Dancer and choreographer Bénédicte Mottart invites young and old to join her on this voyage of intimate discovery. In harmony with the live music specifically created for Humanimal , Mottart confronts the audience with our instinctive physical world relation ship. In each human being an animal is slumbering, and within that animal a whole world – see for yourself!

Four people wake up in an unknown place completely covered in clothes, mountains of clothes. Slowly they build small refuges out of these clothes. Islands emerge and each garment enables the dancers to express a new aspect of their personality. In this new world, the dancers move with great humour and inventiveness, and the clothes become a true mirror of society. People make clothes and clothes make people, and together they take the audience on a fanciful journey full of virtuosity and empathy.