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Darkness Picnic • DOM- Performance
Show · Thursday, November 5 · 19:00 · Paris
La Maison des Métallos, 94, rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud
DOM- freely draws on Peter Weir’s 1975 Picnic at Hanging Rock, adapted from Joan Lindsay’s novel of the same name. From this unsettling, dreamlike fiction—the mysterious disappearance of upper‑class girls in 1900s colonial Australia—the Italian company questions the present, marked by a resurgence of conservatism: control of bodies, corsetry… The picnic becomes a transitional space where new possibilities are invented: a way to escape imposed frames, to follow other lines of desire and imagine, together, other ways of being in the world. DOM- turns this familiar ritual into a shared, sensiti…
