A former collaborator of the Ex Nihilo company, Patrice De Bénédetti has become a long-time friend of Les Tombées de la Nuit. In 2018 he performed this second instalment of what was to become a trilogy. Starting in the northern districts of Marseille, where he spent his childhood, with detours through the streets of Havana (Cuba) and the ghetto of Soweto (South Africa), he used words and movements to draw a map of the forgotten places of the world, making the stories of children, adolescents and young adults the focal point of his show. Again using reading, objects and autobiographical elements based on his brother (after focusing on his father in Jean), he explored the world’s most powerful social ladder: sports.

From two brothers looking for a solution to get out of their neighbourhood by joining the right football club, the piece branches off into baseball and boxing, as Coke cans mark out the performance spaces and the voice resonates with the tragic Mediterranean exiles of today. In this hope for a brighter tomorrow, millions of voices echo from forgotten places around the world. “Vous êtes ici” (You are here) answers back Patrice De Bénédetti in this finely crafted show made of sweat, breath and words that brings contemporary dance to beaches, ghettos, neighbourhoods, wastelands and alleyways.