les Indolents is a choreographic performance consisting of four actions: a solo, a duo, a tableau for five dancers, and a final duo. In the spaces of the museum, the performers trace a subjective history of the body, inspired by an iconographic corpus featuring figures posing in frozen attitudes that are in turn dreamy, obscene, indolent, lascivious, morbid or erotic.

From Balthus’s languid young women to Christ on the Cross, from the incubus to Saint Sebastian, a repertoire of images are amalgamated for their postural interest, a priori to any practice of movement. Playing on the body’s sporting, aesthetic and choreographic forms, the performance questions the commemorative and suggestive power of gesture, and the evocative charge it carries.