“For almost 20 years, we’ve been sharing and analyzing our personal stories.
All the events that, put together, have made us the people and artists we are today.
20 years together, 20 years of stories and anecdotes about our respective childhoods.
And it was only fairly recently that we agreed on one thing: we spent our childhood running.
We have the feeling that, as children, we were lined up on a starting line.
Drawn by adults, irregular and uneven, it didn’t give us all the same head start.
But it showed us the same objective: to set off in an infinite race to arrive, not first, but ahead of the others.
“Tetanet”, which we later renamed “Preum’s”, grew out of our childhood memories.
It’s a look at the need to be in the limelight, which usually comes through the will of adults.
A need that, inevitably, can never be satisfied, as the finish line only recedes.
Becoming parents has helped us to step back.
We’ve realized that our children’s generation is reproducing the same pattern, but with an important addition: social networks.
Growing up in a connected world isn’t always easy.
Our desire to exist, to gain the upper hand over others, is even greater.
We forget that being on top doesn’t make us happy.
Being happy, however, does.
What if tomorrow everything just stopped?
What if we dropped the networks?
What if we stopped running and started walking together, in the same direction, with no winners, no rankings?
In “Preum’s”, we imagine a bubble without rules, created from scratch by our imagination, blown by our madness and inhabited by two women.
Two artists from very different worlds, combining their aesthetics to create a crazy, burlesque world.
Each puts her energy into a return to childhood and simplicity, in the midst of a set that comes to life in the course of their research.
Circus, dance and mime meet along the way, taking the dancers through a series of outrageous situations, all the way to the finish line: a return to their roots, without a winner.
