Research-creation project exploring the text by Québec poet Mireille Gagné. BOIS DE FER is an ambulatory performance in which music and poetry interact, creating images in trees. The spectator's immersive journey tells the story of a tree-woman (it is ambiguous throughout whether she is a linden tree or a woman) caught in the asphalt at the foot of a suburban house, or perhaps it is told by a bedridden woman gazing out of her window - from the moment of the appearance of worrying marks on her bark, right up to the moment that it falls. We witness her struggle with necrosis, anxiety, wounds and parasites. Her confessions invite us to question our relationship with nature and time, and urge us to care for the living. Threatening to crack under the weight of life, she nurtures the hope that a part of her can be saved.

​It revolves around three characters:
- the woman being treated
- the arborist who is trying to treat and care for the tree
- a little girl who loves to climb

The piece will take the form of a journey, following this figure who is both human and arboreal. The spectator plunges into her dreams, moving with her through a wooded area, whose different trees represent "snapshots" of her healthcare journey: from the chiro session to phytosanitary injections, to pruning, storms, hair loss, the cracking trunk and the fear of disappearing.

Created in collaboration with Théatre à corps perdu (Geneviève Blais), Compagnie Digestif (Jennifer Skolovski, Carina Pousaz), Jérôme Tossavi, and Kim Farris-Manning.