Starting With the Limbs

Starting With the Limbs is a collaboration between Annie Hanauer and Cie. L’autre Maison based in Marseille, France.

Annie Hanauer & L'Autre Maison present an interdisciplinary work that takes the experience of wearing a prosthetic limb as its starting point. Starting with the Limbs brings four dancers into a series of innovative choreographic variations, incorporating “wearable and portable sculptures” designed by artist Ghali Bensouda. Using digital morphogenesis and 3D printing, these structures serve a dual function—both as costumes and scenographic elements—rooting the performers within the landscape in a way that is both poetic and organic.

The scenic objects shape the stage into a series of abstract landscapes. Their texture, reminiscent of bone, stones, or prosthetics, creates a sensory and cognitive resonance between familiarity and strangeness. Conceptual and adaptable, these objects become supports, constraints, or play partners, shaping the movement through ongoing interaction.

Drawing from her own experiences and those of the four dancers—both disabled and non-disabled—particularly their relationship with limbs perceived as “non-normative,” Annie Hanauer crafts a series of unique choreographic portraits. Each performer expresses their individuality while maintaining a constant listening to others, giving rise to living tableaux. These unique bodily landscapes redraw the boundaries between body and environment, offering a new perception of movement and identity.

Access: Audio Description available in French, relaxed performance possible

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Premiere: Festival de Marseille 2025

Tour dates:

‍Théâtre National de Bretagne - Le Triangle, Rennes - November 2025

Holland Dance Festival - The Hague - February 2026

• with Annie's participation in Inclusive by Design, HDF's DanceAble Symposium 2026

Mercat de les Flors - Barcelona - June 2026

Festival Oriente Occidente - Rovereto - September 2026

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Choreography Annie Hanauer

‍Dancers Felix Tamm, Sofía Valdiri, Greta Sandon, Coralie Viudes, with research by  Nadia Garrad

‍Artistic Direction of the Company Andrew Graham

‍Choreographic Assistants Anne-Gaëlle Thiriot & Andrew Graham

‍Music Composition Azizi Cole

‍Set Design Ghali Bensouda

Costumes Tasha Labunskaya

Lighting Design & Technical Direction Bastien Lagier

Sound Engineer Jean Cochard

‍Production L’Autre Maison

‍Production Managers Sonia Gaspard & in’8 circle

Production Contact production.lautremaison@gmail.com

‍Co-production Festival de Marseille; Ballet National de Marseille; Scène 55; Mougins; EUROPE BEYOND ACCESS: Oriente Occidente, Rovereto, Italy; Holland Dance Festival, Netherlands; Mercat de Les Flors, Barcelona, Spain – Co-funded by the European Union. EXTRA-ORDINAIRE: Théâtre National de Bretagne, Centre Dramatique National (Rennes), with the support of the Centre National pour la Création Adaptée and the Cercle Culture d’Un Esprit de Famille (Chœur à l’ouvrage fund, Haplotès fund, Milk For Good fund, Guillaume and Charlotte Paoli fund, Regnier fund for creation, Simones fund) / With the support DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur; Le Département – Bouches-du-Rhône; La Ville de Marseille; Cap Emploi / Sponsorship Caisse des Dépôts; Fondation SNCF