ARCHIVES 2015 / Saison 1 / What the world wants from you is a story

Season 1 / Episode 01 explores the intuitive and addictive relationship mankind has with stories; those we tell ourselves, and those we think we tell others. Florence Minder reveals the various functions of stories: tools of power, survival mechanisms, desperate attempts at communication, or acts of love.Radical, sensual, violent and funny, the text works like a one-night stand—or a life-altering encounter: in an unexpected, ballsy, and slightly quirky way. The instability of the theatre she proposes aims to, during the brief time of the performance, allow us to look together at that without which we could not live; the unspeakable.

Born in Switzerland and based in Brussels, Florence Minder is a writer and an actress. Her writing for the stage is aimed at a radical interaction with the audience. The forms that it produces, Good Mourning!, Vostbil, Calendrier de l'Avent, the koehlerminder manifest, are always part of the specific contexts of their respective performances. Florence Minder works with dancers Thusnelda Mercy, Pascal Merighi, and Fabien Prioville, as well as with writers Karen Köhler and Sarah Berthiaume.