Résistance

Resistance at Salle Molière

At Salle Molière, we are delighted to welcome Resistance, a bold, immersive stage work that draws its power from the encounter between artist and audience. Our hall’s intimate scale and crystalline acoustics create a rare proximity, allowing every breath, gesture, and inflection to resonate. Resistance is conceived as a living performance, a journey through tension and release, hush and surge, where light, movement, and sound write a shared narrative in real time. In this setting, Resistance becomes more than a title; it becomes an experience of presence. The piece listens to our space as much as it performs within it, harnessing the room’s warmth and focus to place spectators at the very heart of its questions about agency, courage, and the fragile bonds that hold communities together. As a venue that champions artistic risk and emotional clarity, Salle Molière is the ideal chamber for a work that refuses to stand still, that keeps asking, with nuance and beauty, what it means to hold one another up when the world feels unsteady.

Beyond the stage, the artist behind Resistance is engaged in a dynamic period of creation that dovetails with the piece’s themes. The current season finds the team refining a performance language that binds choreography, text, and music into a single, breathing organism—neither dance alone nor theatre alone, but a hybrid form where each element supports and contradicts the others in productive friction. This ongoing research is visible in the way Resistance shifts scale before our eyes: a whisper becomes a chorus, a solitary figure suddenly suggests a crowd, a single motif unfurls into a communal pulse. We are particularly attentive to the work’s attention to detail—its embrace of silence, its sculptural use of light, its sensitivity to how bodies share space—because Salle Molière magnifies these choices with uncommon finesse. The artist’s present focus is on deep listening and meticulous craft: honing transitions so they feel inevitable and building dramaturgies that breathe, inviting audiences to lean forward and participate. This moment in their trajectory is less about spectacle for its own sake and more about care, rigor, and resonance—qualities that align with our venue’s curatorial ethos.

What unfolds on stage at Salle Molière

What can audiences expect from Resistance here at Salle Molière? Expect an evening where form and feeling are inseparable. The performance is structured as a series of evolving tableaux, each one testing the boundaries between solitude and solidarity. A figure holds a line against an invisible current; a group gathers and dissolves; a rhythm is interrupted and then returns with renewed urgency. Live soundscapes—at times percussive and propulsive, at times hushed and atmospheric—cohere with physical scores that use weight, breath, and gaze as compositional tools. The lighting design is a partner in this journey, carving the space into zones of intimacy and exposure, revealing the smallest tremor of a hand or the collective sweep of bodies in motion. In our hall, these choices are felt at a cellular level: the wooden surfaces catch the grain of voice, the room’s proportions balance clarity and warmth, and the sightlines allow each spectator to witness both the individual and the ensemble at once. Resistance invites you not merely to watch but to witness—an ethical posture as much as an aesthetic one. It is this invitation that we, at Salle Molière, are honored to extend: to meet the work where it lives, to feel its quiet urgencies and its luminous refusals, and to carry its questions with you as you step back into the night.