Les cavalières de l'Apocalypse

Sabrina Sow, Léa Dubois, Serge Lazar BE/FR

Creation
Dance, physical & equestrian theatre
Chapel
90'
14+
Texts FR, NL
Depiction of physical and verbal violence
Nudity

The incivility

The Apocalypse heralds the end of a cycle. It has had such a profound impact on the Western psyche that the term has become synonymous with cataclysm, with the end of the world.

Four great tableaux unfold like a gigantic tapestry woven from blood, fire, humus and swords. There are cries and caresses; there is racing.

There are two horses and three figures on the edge of humanity.

A Black woman, often on horseback, creates confusion: is she the horsewoman, or is she fleeing? What does the intimacy she shares with the animals mean? Does she know the codes, or is she making them up as she goes along?

A slender, blonde, white woman embodies Donna Haraway’s cyborg world; at once perfect and repulsive, smooth, confrontational and aggressive, she seems to be both the cure and the disease. ‘I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess’, she claims.

Off to the side, sunk into a battered armchair, sits a weary, ape-like demiurge. He has the baldness and beer belly of certain ‘outcasts’; he observes, comments, mocks and even throws cans onto the stage. He is their exhausted, withering god.

And then it begins.

Sabrina Sow is a Belgian dramaturg, poet and horsewoman, trained as a neuropsychologist. In 2006, she founded her company La Négresse à Cheval in Brussels, before moving to France in 2013. Following Salopette (2015) and Dresse-toi (2018), which drew parallels between women and horses, and Espèces d’Espaces (2021), which explored our relationship with time, space and animality, the artist brought her horses onto the theatre stage in La Bête et l’Animale (2024). An ecofeminist fable, it tells the story of a Black woman who chooses to become an animal.

Trained at the Royal Ballet School of Antwerp, Léa Dubois is a Belgian dancer who has worked with, among others, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus and Laura Bachmann. In 2024, she created her solo Le goût du drame at Les Halles de Schaerbeek: a race for joy, combining the pushing of one’s own limits with surrendering to the pure pleasure of dancing.

Serge Lazar is a Belgian actor and aerial acrobat, trained at the Brussels Circus School. He has performed, among others, with Feria Musica, and for Christophe Huysman and Rasposo. He remains a circus artist with the company Inextremiste and is also co-author of Sway (2008), a cult production by his company Les mains sales, and O let me weep (2018), an excerpt from which was performed that same year at Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles.

Représentations

Wed. 16 Dec. 2026
20:00
Thu. 17 Dec. 2026
20:00
Fri. 18 Dec. 2026
20:00
Sat. 19 Dec. 2026
19:00

Concept, performance Sabrina Sow, Léa Dubois, Serge Lazar
On a proposal by Charles Vairet

Delegated production Equinoctis
Co-production Les Brigittines
With the suppport of Mairie de Bergesseri (FR), La Roseraie - Espace Cré-Action - Saint-Gilles

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