Résonance
Before the Words Return to the Air - Association KnAM Théâtre
2026
Oct 02 — Oct 08, 2026
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A performative walk through Lyon’s public space, where a small group creates a fragile lexicon of the place from sounds, signs, thresholds, brief encounters and words written on leaves before they return to the air.
Before the Words Return to the Air is a score of attention for public space, created by Théâtre KnAM. The project invites a small group of participants to move through Lyon differently: not to visit the city, but to listen to it, observe it and receive its fragile signs.
Along the way, simple instructions appear: slow down here, listen until a word emerges, wait for the image, receive without taking, carry a fragment. Sounds, smells, thresholds, signs, refusals, silhouettes and brief encounters gradually compose a temporary lexicon of the place.
The collected words are written not on a neutral surface, but on fallen leaves found in the space being crossed. Each leaf becomes a small surface of time: something that has already belonged to the air, the ground and the season. Participants may also record short sound fragments: a few seconds of voice, breath, noise or sensation.
At the centre of the project is a long white tablecloth — road, table and shared page — which gathers these leaf-words. At the end, the group holds the tablecloth together and shakes it. The words rise, fall and settle on bodies and on the ground, like a fragile herbarium in motion. Each participant may take one word away, as a fragment of a shared moment that briefly existed.
Booking required. The meeting point will be communicated to participants after registration.
Audience
From age 12
Duration
01:30