This is the latest of three shows created by Romain Bertet, and is first-and-foremost a continuation of the dancer and choreographer’s work on burial and the underground space. In 2016, it started with the archaeological piece, De là-bas, which saw him swallowed up by a massive seven hundred kilo house made of clay. In 2018, there was Écoutervoir, where three people were immersed into a staged representation of disappearing bodies. Now, the radical burial of Underground pushes the boundaries even further by subjecting spectators to a character who is temporarily headless, and therefore without an identity.

The soundtrack, words, noises, voices and music collide imperceptibly and mingle with this moving body. We do not know what is happening below, but the missing head invites us to explore this unknown world and this fascinating, curious and invisible underground. The possibilities of this off-stage focus are endless.

Using a body stretched out on the ground that slowly transitions to vertical before finally standing like a human totem pole, Romain Bertet writes a magnificent choreographic piece about the memory of places and landscapes and the sudden emergence of living things from under our feet, about the boundary created by the ground, and associated imagination, vertigo and fantasies. It is impossible to take your eyes off this unusual performance of choreographed archaeology and a troubling reversal of common sense.