The Weight of a Sponge (Le Poids des Eponges) invites one to cast a quirky – lucid but distant – look at our daily routines.  It gives one the feeling of doing something for the very first time. Perhaps this quirkiness – the surreal touch – is the result of a vision freed from the filter of our own habits? The original aim was to question our perception and interpretation of reality.  

The choreography is a mix of instants and situations where the comical contests with the strange.  The piece comprises three acts. One scene is repeated in every act with only the relevant contingent changes, so that three different paths of life involving the same dancers are sketched out.
This unconventional repetition of an identical reality upsets the perception of the spectator. The choreographer emphasized confusion, illusion, our partial and partisan perception of reality. Dancers slip on a certain image of a fictitious reality and turn our perception upside down. We slide furtively on the mirror of water just as we do in our own lives.