Wet Songs is an experimental musical for five performers coming from different artistic backgrounds – dance, music, spoken word and opera. Steeped in radical science-fiction, the « Wet Songs » emerge from a time of great climatic and emotional drought. 

What has been plundered from us and what has dried us up? What potions can we use to remedy the situation? What dances and songs will we use to stop the anaesthetic
break the barriers, re-irrigate the affects, bring tears to the eyes, let a laughter out, making mouths water?

Wet Songs imagines the invention of a hydro-community in search of gestures, sounds and words to dissolve borders and binaries, to make way for more fluid becomings…

Exhausted by stories of extraction and separation, the members of the community gather around a strange kitchen, mixing stories, moods, eras and aesthetics in the manner of mash-ups, tides or alchemy.

Their fictional bodies create an art of the hybrid in the same way that remedies are made.

CREDITS
Conception and choregraphy	Nina Santes
Creation and performance	Dalila Khatir (singing and danse), Wol (singing, trumpet, beatbox), Sati Veyrunes (singing and danse), Makeda Monnet (lyrical song, harp, danse), Silex Silence (spoken word and danse)
Light creation	Louise Rustan
Sound creation	Aria de la Celle
Accessories	Charlotte Gautier Van Tour
Eco-conception coaching	Annie Leuridan
Technical Coordination	Steven Le Corre
Administration, production, development	Barbara Coffy
Production	La Fronde
Coproductions	Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans – CCNO, Le Manège, scène nationale-Reims, Charleroi Danse – Bruxelles, Tremplin ARVIVA – Sustainable initiatives for performing arts, Carreau du Temple, Lieu Unique in the frame of Libre Usine, La Briqueterie CDCN, Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble (in the frame of the residency ”accueil studio” 2025) (confirmed)
	The project is a winner of the Tremplins ARVIVA encouraging sustainable initiatives in the performing arts, and is supported by the Mécénat de la Caisse des Dépôts.
	Nina Santes benefits from the Associate Artist programme set up by the Ministry of Culture, at the Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans from 2021 to 2023
	Nina Santes and La Fronde are also associated artist with the Manège – Scène nationale de Reims, from September 2021 to June 2024

CALENDAR	Public performances
September 2025	Premieres – Festival Excentriques – CDCN La Briqueterie
September 2025	CDCN Dancing – extérieur
February 2025	Preview – Festival Parallèle, Marseille (under discussion)
7 dec 24	Dancing and singing conference on Wet Songs, Festival Le Grand HUIT, Nantes, Fr.
15 nov 24	Presentation of the work-in-progress for professionals, Charleroi-Danse, Brussels, Belgium
12 oct 24	Wet Songs – Performance and end of association, CCNO, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans
4 July	Presentation of the work-in-progress for professionals, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris
14 apr 24	Wet Songs, practice sharing, CCNO, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans
14-16 mar 24	Wet Songs, practice sharing, El Caldo Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
6 mar 24	Wet Songs, practice sharing, Manège de Reims
02 dec 24	Wet Songs, practice sharing, Manège de Reims
04 nov 23	Wet Songs, practice sharing, CCNO, Orléans

CALENDAR	Residencies
8-13 september 2025	CDCN La Briqueterie
2-7 june 2025	Writing residency, CDCN La Briqueterie
12-17 may 2025	CCN2 Grenoble
13-18 Jan 25	Libre Usine, Lieu Unique, Nantes
24 nov – 06 dec 24	Writing Residency, Honolulu and Maison trouble, Nantes, Fr.
12-19 nov 24	Charleroi-Danse, Brussels, Belgium.
07-18 oct 24	CCNO, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans
23-27 sept 24	Writing residency
01-5 july 24	Le Carreau du Temple, Paris
27-29 june	Writing residency, CND, Paris
14-21 apr 24	Fondation Royaumont
26 feb – 6 mar 24	Manège de Reims
16-19 janv 24	La Libre Usine, Lieu Unique – Nantes
27 nov – 02 dec 24	Manège de Reims
23 oct – 04 nov 23	Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans