Kermesse - Le Cargo

The collective La Cabale presents its colourful new show "Kermesse" on Thursday 26 March 2026 at 8.30pm at Le Cargo in Segré.

The world is in crisis, and we were born into it. It's up to us to change it, it's obvious... Why not start with a caterpillar?

"The caterpillar is a dance where people who don't know each other take each other by the shoulders, look in the same direction and become a people. Kermesse

Doing a caterpillar together on the evening of a performance. It's a simple project, yet this seemingly harmless festive ritual is a source of powerful reactions: rejection, pleasure, euphoria. For some, it even touches on tradition. With the caterpillar as their starting point, La Cabale questions our relationship with ridicule and shame, and turns this dance into a political, sociological and ecological subject.
Kermesse could be a social experiment. Would we be capable of initiating national reconciliation through dance? What if, to save the world, we had to start by saving ourselves?