L'Habeas Corpus Compagnie

The Habeas Corpus Company, established in July 2012, takes its name from the English habeas corpus ordinance that, in the Middle Ages, guaranteed a citizen would not be imprisoned without trial.

Habeas corpus, from the Latin "you should have the body" (to present it to the judge), is nowadays the fundamental right to have control over one's body (implied against any abusive arrest) and, by extension - this is the meaning that interests us here -,
the fundamental right to have control over one's body (period).

This statement, as the founding act of our artistic approach, gives the body a central position as a creative vehicle of expression, a space of freedom, claim, strangeness, and beauty.

Our approach places experimentation as a meeting point with the public through:

° The staging of the performing and theatrical body
° The confrontation of different spaces and levels of narratives
° The research on the aesthetics of bodies, sets, bodies in a set and their narrative, fictitious and realistic potential
° The constant questioning of limits and preconceived ideas
° The highlighting of uncertain but defensible points of view

Reverso is the first act of this approach, it explores the chameleon body, like a material that can be transformed at will. Free not to fix its appearance to constantly evolve its relationship with others, with objects, with the vertical and the horizontal.