Último Helecho

This sensory performance takes the audience through hidden layers of folklore and myth. Folklore does not appear as a fixed heritage, but as something that lives and changes, full of tensions and contradictions. European influences resonate alongside the often-suppressed history of indigenous communities. Here, virtuosity arises from change and fusion.

Último helecho unfolds in two contrasting parts. In the first, time seems to stand still. Two hybrid figures move slowly through a dimly lit space that feels like a cave or a shelter. Voices and sounds rise from the depths, as if dance itself were emerging here anew.

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In the second part, everything bursts forth. Rhythm and energy take over, footwork makes the floor reverberate. What grew underground blossoms into an exuberant, collective world full of movement.

Throughout the work, the figure of the devil from South American mythology emerges – not as a threat, but as a guide. Último helecho thus becomes a poetic journey through layers of memory, melancholy and longing: a spellbinding experience that touches the soul and opens up space for other ways of feeling and living together.

Original idea, musical and stage direction and scenography Nina Laisné
Choreography, artistic collaboration and performance François Chaignaud
Music consulting, artistic collaboration and performance Nadia Larcher

Live music
Tenor sackbut, serpent, flute Rémi Lécorché
Tenor sackbut Nicolas Vazquez
Tenor and bass sackbut Cyril Bernhard
Bandoneon Jean‑Baptiste Henry
Theorb and plucked strings Daniel Zapico
Traditional percussions Vanesa Garcia

General manager Sara Ruiz Marmolejo
Stage manager Sara Ruiz Marmolejo
Lighting design Abigail Fowler
Lighting technician Abigail Fowler
Sound technicians Camille Frachet, Arthur Frick
Dresser (tour) Cara Ben Assayag, Sarah Duvert

Scenography assistant Julie Reilles
Structure engineer Arteoh - Benoît Brobst and Augustin Brobst
Scenography construction Théâtre de Liège (technical director : Emmanuel Deck ; workshop manager : Cédric Debatty ; carpenters : David Halleux, Ferdinand Durmisovski, Aurélien Defize, Ioannis Katikakis, Philippe Gustin ; metalworker : Gary Gouders ; set designer : Sandra Belloi ; trainee : Felix Pêcheur), Les 2 Scènes, Scène nationale de Besançon (technical director : Emmanuel Cèbe ; builder : David Chazelet) - builder: Gaby Sittler – props : France Chevassut - painters: Sylvie Mitault, Alan Da Silva, Nina Laisné
Costumes design and making Sarah Duvert, Florence Bruchon
Costumes making Théâtre de Liège (cutters : Christine Picqueray and Anicia Echevarria, seamstresses : Agnès Brouhon and Christelle Vanbergen, coordinator : Pierre Matteucci, trainees : Nathan Ludwig and Zoé Jacobs), Opéra de Limoges (costume designer : Nelli Vermel, assistant costume designer : Raymonde Maranay, trainee : Pauline Saintonge) - dyer: Amandine Brun-Sauvant – cabinetmaker : Mathieu Paesmans - false skulls : Rebecca Flores Martinez and Sarah Duvert – wigmakers : Coline Bourdere and Caroline Porte
Make-up design Lou Thonet

Trainees Orane Bernard, Pauline Couturon, Plume Ducret and Léa Warin-d’Houdetot

Dance transmission Rodrigo Jesus Colomba, Maximiliano Colussi, Gustavo Gomez, Carlos González, Ivana Herrera, Pablo Lugones, Petete, Nelson Vega et Yanina Olmos, Jorge Vázquez et Alexis Mirenda

Administration and production Zorongo (Martine Girol, Valentina Salazar Henao), Mandorle productions (Chloé Perol, Jeanne Lefèvre, Emma Forster)
Production and tour Bureau Platô – Séverine Péan

-|-EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION Zorongo in association with CCN de Caen en Normandie

Zorongo is supported by the French Ministry for Culture – DRAC Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region and the city of Besançon.
Nina Laisné is an associate artist at the Quartz, Scène nationale de Brest and at the Grand R, Scène nationale de La Roche-sur-Yon.
The Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie is subsidised by the French Ministry for Culture – DRAC Normandie, the Normandie region, the city of Caen, the Calvados Department, the Manche Department.

Coproductions
Théâtre de Liège and DC&J Création (BE), Les 2 Scènes – Scène nationale de Besançon (FR), Le Quartz – Scène nationale de Brest (FR), Maison de la danse / Pôle européen de création, en soutien à la Biennale de Lyon (FR), PACT Zollverein (DE), Festival d’Automne à Paris (FR), Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse (FR), Théâtre de la Ville – Paris (FR), Berliner Festspiele (DE), Théâtre Auditorium Poitiers (FR), Dans in December Brugge (BE), Le Grand R – Scène nationale La Roche‑sur‑Yon (FR), Charleroi Danse – Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie‑Bruxelles (BE), Opéra de Limoges (FR), Julidans Amsterdam (NL), Le Manège – scène nationale – Reims (FR), La Comédie de Clermont – Clermont‑Ferrand (FR), Malraux – Scène nationale Chambéry‑Savoie (FR), MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble – Scène nationale (FR), Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy (FR), Château Rouge – Scène conventionnée Annemasse (FR), Theater Freiburg (DE), Oriente Occidente (IT), Théâtre Vidy‑Lausanne (CH), Festival Musica Strasbourg (FR), Maillon – Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne (FR), POLE‑SUD CDCN Strasbourg (FR), Filature – Scène nationale Mulhouse (FR), Théâtre Garonne – Scène européenne Toulouse (FR)

The show is supported by the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government and the Inver Tax Shelter
The show is supported by Interreg franco‑suisse Project n°20919 – LACS
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels

Residencies La Ménagerie de Verre, CN D Pantin