Compagnie Maguy Marin

UMWELT, conceived as an environment with rules of its own, makes use of perceptive staging composed of doors and mirrors, openings and closures, which organize our fleeting vision. Within this vibrating framework, made possible by the amplified sound of three guitars, moving bodies go back and forth, appear, disappear, and embark on instants of everyday existence. They might brandish an object, hug, walk, eat or disappear. The machine gradually starts to go out of control, cuts out, repeats itself and then starts up again. The different bodies in the space split apart, repeat themselves, positioned on the brink of their own existences. UMWELT hollows out the future of our own environment - in all its vanity and fragility.


Maguy Marin was born in Toulouse to Spanish parents who fled the Franco regime. Marin has been creating since the 1970s socially conscious dance pieces that have made her one of the most important figures of new French dance.