"The imagination can run wild in every possible direction, from the most gruesome to the most erotic. And no one has yet to do their best to fall in line. The allegory is freed from its chains and runs amok. Liberating anarchy." - Pzazz, 2019

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Louise van den Eede, dramaturgical note: In Benjamin's version of Ballet de la Nuit, we actually wanted to turn Ballet de la Nuit on end, to turn Louis IV's vertically hierarchical Versailles on its head by making the thrilling forces of Night reign victorious. The people of the village prepare the feast, during the day as sleepwalkers, a feast for the king, but once the sun sets they follow mesmerized and awake only the rituals of Moon and Stars, no longer obeying their king. Our Sun King would only appear at the end like a sun that rises and immediately goes out again, it would become a jester, only supposed to serve the nightly feast or perish. We wanted to challenge political decadence, we wanted to translate a metaphysical and cosmic desire of self-liberation by focusing not on Power, but on the power of liberating rituals.