The Love of the World 

Synopsis

A sage asks a student:
— “What is the greatest love?”
The student replies:
— “Love for another?”
The sage smiles:
— “No… it is the love of the question. As long as you keep asking, you are alive.”

From this riddle emerges the ZemmourBallet’s new creation: a dive into the love of the world, not as certainty, but as an infinite quest. On stage, four performers throw themselves body and soul into a continuous flow of movement, where each gesture becomes a question. Bodies stumble, rise, cling, and push away, as if balance can exist only on the edge of its own collapse.

Dance becomes a raw language, full of contradictions: the desire for freedom versus the weight of attachments, the need for union versus the call for independence. Every moment carries tension: to stay or leave, yield or resist, love or withdraw. Nothing is fixed; everything is constantly redefined.

In this piece, love of the world is not a peaceful ideal but a storm to inhabit. The performers offer no answers—they pose questions through their flesh, breath, and falls. Love is undefined; it seeks, reinvents, is lost, and found again.

The audience is swept into this organic surge, a journey where physical intensity opens cracks of poetry. One emerges shaken, as after a dialogue where the only certainty is that life is worth dancing, as long as there remains a question to ask.

Nicolas Zemmour: Artistic Director, Choreographer
Marc Zemmour: Dramaturge
Catherine Wilson: Performer
Laura Brisson: Performer
Aria Trotel: Performer
Nicolas Zemmour: Performer

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Ville de Sherbrooke

Centre des arts de la scène Jean-Besré

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