Cie Point Zéro

Point Zero is an artist collective formed around the approach of Jean-Michel d'Hoop, a director and initiator of projects. Point Zero has always wanted to prioritize the search for authors who are too little present on our stages: this is how we have traveled from Gombrowicz to Carole Fréchette, passing through Fassbinder, Hugo Claus or Witkiewicz to end up at Alejandro Jodorowsky.

The director Jean-Michel d'Hoop always intends to question the work method itself: by approaching each project with the assumption that every text requires a unique artistic approach. Beyond the questions that seem essential to him to ask through the art of live performance, he believes it is indispensable to question language itself. If one were to weave a dramaturgical thread between the shows, it would be stretched between a dreamlike universe and raw reality; it would certainly take us to the borders of laughter, where human tragedy becomes grotesque.
In recent years, the director's work has been particularly focused on "the animate and the inanimate". Through the use of puppets, he explores the unique relationship that can be formed between an actor and a double. He advocates for a theater for a wide audience, while being decidedly modern and innovative. He bets on the possible alloy between a bold stage approach and intelligent entertainment based on the immediate pleasure of the encounter between the actor and the spect-actor.