Les terres hautes

Creation Modou Fata Touré

Ibrahima Camara, Amy Collé Seck, Andy Mougny, Yasmine Ouadi

External eye in progress

Lighting design in progress

Original music in progress

Costumes in progress

Production - administration - distribution: SenCirk France, in collaboration with the Scène Nationale de l'Essonne

 

Co-productions and artist residencies at the Scène Nationale de l'Essonne - partners currently being sought

Support in progress

 

Created in 2026

Duration 40 min (estimated)

Suitable for all audiences / Outdoors

 

The city is a place of tension. It confines and inspires, constrains and liberates. It is also the product of migratory histories, anonymous arrivals, and multiple displacements. In Les Terres Hautes, we set out in search of those gestures born in courtyards, on rooftops, in streets and parks. Gestures that become dance, circus, speech, memory.
 

Modou Fata Touré, founder of the SenCirk company:
“My starting point is personal. I come from a village in Senegal; I grew up far from the city. When I arrived in Dakar, then in Europe, I discovered urban elements as completely extraordinary and impressive things. I also discovered that, within these spaces often considered dehumanized, an extraordinary creativity was unfolding. Young people without access to institutions were inventing their own language - through dance, through jumps, through telling their world. This project is a tribute to them.”
 

The scenography will be conceived using simple, mobile modules allowing for dance, jumps, and suspension. Bodies rising within confined spaces. And behind each movement, a metaphor: even trapped in a shared room, one can dance. Even trapped in a stairwell, one can create freely.

Les Terres Hautes is also a way of telling the story of those who are not heard. A way of bringing the street onto the stage without distorting it. A way of saying: “We are here. And we have something to show.”

This project, Les Terres Hautes , is not just a creation. It is a journey, an anchoring, a dialogue between artists, inhabitants, places and shared histories.