Nos Matins Intérieurs

Nos Matins Intérieurs at Le Toboggan

Le Toboggan is delighted to welcome Nos Matins Intérieurs to our stage, a creation that feels tailor‑made for the intimacy and precision of our venue in Décines‑Charpieu, just outside Lyon. From our vantage point as hosts, this work stands out for its delicate interplay of movement, voice, and light—an ensemble language that invites audiences to lean in and listen to the quiet rhythms of the day’s first moments. Across rehearsals and technical sessions in our auditorium, the performers’ attention to nuance has been palpable: a breath becomes a cue, a pause becomes a landscape, and silence becomes a sound in its own right. Our stage team has worked closely with the production to shape a scenography that privileges clarity and closeness, enhancing the piece’s exploration of inner awakenings, daily rituals, and the private choreography we all carry before the world fully arrives. As with the best contemporary creations, the show does not seek to explain; it unfolds, allowing light, gesture, and music to braid themselves into a living score that feels both personal and collective. We look forward to sharing that feeling with our audience—the sense that morning is not only a time of day, but a space inside us, ready to be discovered anew.

Artistic momentum and what to expect on stage

The team behind Nos Matins Intérieurs arrives at Le Toboggan in the midst of a fertile creative cycle, moving fluidly between theater, dance, and sound composition. Their recent season has included development periods at multiple French stages, invitations to dialogue with visual artists and composers, and a series of workshops that refine the project’s attention to the body’s micro‑gestures. What makes this momentum exciting for us as a venue is the production’s living structure: the dramaturgy breathes with the performers’ presence, threading spoken text with physical scores, and letting the lighting design sketch the boundaries between waking, memory, and imagination. Expect a refined palette of tones—amber mornings that bloom into cooler hues—as well as a discreet sound architecture that lets each step, exhale, and musical fragment carry weight. The creation’s language remains resolutely accessible, yet full of detail: an object becomes a partner, an everyday action becomes ritual, and the stage transforms into a room we all recognize, even if we have never entered it before. By the time the final image settles, you may feel you’ve been witness to an interior daybreak—one that belongs to the performers, certainly, but also, quietly, to you.

Presenting this work at Le Toboggan also means framing the audience’s journey with care. From the moment you step into our foyer, we aim to cultivate the kind of attention the piece deserves: calm transitions, gentle lighting, and a measured pace that allows conversation to drift into anticipation. Our technical crew has tuned the room to the production’s intimate scale—shaping acoustics so that soft dynamics are fully audible, adjusting sightlines so small choreographic details are never lost, and collaborating with the company’s designers to maintain the show’s clean visual geometry. Seating feels close by design; the performance rewards proximity, granting a front‑row sense of presence even from the middle of the house. For those who appreciate contemporary creation that trusts its audience, Nos Matins Intérieurs is a rare opportunity to meet artists in the fullness of their current practice. The piece aligns with Le Toboggan’s commitment to works that open doors—between disciplines, between artists and spectators, and, most of all, between the outer world and the inner rooms we seldom have time to visit. Here, in the shared quiet of the theater, morning unfolds as a verb, and we are invited to live it together.