La Vieille Souche

In a dystopian far-future, meet Trebor (a tree in a pot) and Robert (an acrodancer). Intertwined and leaning on one another, these two entities exist in sync, supporting each other throughout the one-hour acrobatic dialogue that is La Vieille Souche. Intimate, minimalistic, absurd, optimistic, and highly physical, the piece places Trebor and Robert on equal footing.

We created both a trailer and did the photography for La Vieille Souche. This piece is also an ode to life, in all its absurdity, and to the walnut tree at the edge of the garden of my childhood home—a tree that held my first “cabanes”, the early sorrows of my heart, and still proudly bears the scars from the swing’s ropes.