What is joy? A question as simple as it is elusive, one that has stayed with Antoine Le Moal since his years of training. Here, it becomes the starting point of a choreographic exploration. The answer may never come. And that is precisely where the piece begins.

Unfolding in three movements, it follows a trajectory rather than a narrative. That of a life in which bodies move forward, resist, rise and let go. Joy does not appear as a permanent state, it springs from momentum and from encounter. It is a force that sets things in motion.

Suddenly, this great question becomes a way of looking at the world. Not to exhaust its meaning, but to keep searching for it. With a kind of naivety that is not a weakness, but a form of courage. Peter Gabriel’s music is its breath and its pulse, flowing through the choreography. The costumes, made by Henri Davila, seem to emerge from the dancers’ skin. Painted by Adrien Sabbah, their motifs surface like tattoos gradually revealed by movement. Suspended in space, his large canvas unfolds like a treasure map that points not to a destination, but to a direction. It invites us to set out on the journey, guided by the intuition that a single drawing can hold both a great mystery and an essential truth.

Perhaps the point is not to know what joy is. It is to feel it, to share it, and to recognise what it sets in motion.