Theatre - Extreme Swimmer, Portrait of an Ice-Cooled Young Woman

6 route d’Ingersheim

Two women, two bodies facing their limits. The first is athletic, a swimmer in icy water, the second defies illness in the hospital corridors. Through performance or suffering, they tell the story of a body that has become foreign. Élise Vigier shares this intimate and sororal crossing, with delicacy and modesty. One chooses to abuse her body in a self-transcendence challenge, through sport. The other fights what gnaws at her body and mutilates it. They share the experience of a fragile, diminished, transformed body, and also the fierce joy of feeling alive. By putting e…