PANACHES is an intimate odyssey into queer parenthood, and an ode to strange families in general. With mischief and strangeness, Panaches is a poetic fiction: how to invent family in the black hole of the abyss ? How to create your own light ? How do we reproduce? How to invent magical kin ? Dancing marine monsters, submerged songs, alien gestations, Panaches attempts to translate the creative power of black, teeming waters.

Choreography, performance: Pau Simon.  Sound design, performance : Clément Vercelletto. Feed back, dramaturgy: Matthieu Blond & Emma Tricard. Stage manager: Geoffroy Daguet.

Creation 12 mars 2026, scène nationale de Chambéry.
Supported by Buda KunstenCentrum, (residency, coproduction, diffusion) CND, Centre National de la Danse, Pantin (residency, coproduction) Klap, Marseille (residency, diffusion) Ballet National de Marseille (research residency, coproduction) DRAC Ile De France, La Soufflerie, Rezé (research residency) Théâtre de Vanves, (coproduction).

Images : Renata Pires