The project
AGAPÉ is a 50-minute choreographic and sound-based conversation between three hybrid, microscopic figures exploring the power of friendship. It is a fable about love for the sake of love, a cellular kind of love rooted in modern biology. This empathetic and whimsical trio forms a tiny, vibrant microcosm.
AGAPÉ follows on from EUPHORIA, Caroline Breton’s previous work, sharing the same cocoon-like, dreamlike, and modular aesthetic. She crafts singular, lightweight, and flexible choreographic objects that open portals to the imagination, the poetic, and the mysterious spaces where the ego fades in favor of the collective.
At the heart of AGAPÉ is a deep attention to the living world: its rhythms, textures, and invisible forces. This artistic research becomes a sensitive experience in which movement becomes a cellular language, and wonder a driver for transformation.
The creation schedule spans 2025 to 2026, with residencies in prestigious venues such as the Watermill Center (New York), the CND in Pantin, Les Hivernales in Avignon, the Atelier de Paris CDCN, and La Chaufferie – DCA / Philippe Decouflé, which will host the light creation. The premiere is planned at La Ménagerie de Verre in Paris during the Les Inaccoutumées festival.
The project also marks a key stage in the structuring of the company, which is partnering with Collectif Overjoyed specialists in live performance production and communications. It’s a way to bring professionals together around a work at the crossroads of art, science, and sensation.
By supporting AGAPÉ, the Francis Kurkdjian Endowment Fund celebrates a unique choreographic fable where the infinitely small opens into the poetry of the living, invents a cellular language of movement, and brings forth a tender, joyful, and profoundly collective art form.
Caroline Breton is a choreographer and performer. Trained in dance and philosophy, piano and singing, she notably dances with Marco Berrettini in My Soul is my Visa at the Théâtre national de Chaillot, iFeel2 and reactivates 3 pieces by Simone Forti at the Watermill Center in New York. In 2018, she founded the Karol Karol group with Charles Chemin. They conceived a series of living danced portraits, I Hope in 2019, figures in 2022 at the Ménagerie de Verre and Watermill Center. She is the winner of the Bourse écriture danse from the Fondation Beaumarchais-SACD for EUPHORIA, a duet on the meaning of wonder to be premiered in March 2025.