The Burning Feet Company was created in 2019 around a first project, Ceci est une Rencontre. Under the impulse of Marthe Krummenacher, Artistic Director, and co-produced by the Association for Contemporary Dance (ADC, Geneva), this first creation concretized the artistic, aesthetic and ethical proposals that still guide its work today: sometimes eclectic encounters between artists coming from different universes (contemporary dance, music, contemporary art), the meticulous search for a space of improvisation in which an artistic encounter becomes possible, the exploration and the questioning of what makes our link to the other, of what animates it or prevents it, in the world as we perceive it.
These concerns are reflected both in Marthe Krummenacher’s creative method, which excels in establishing a highly participatory climate in which each person can give the best of his or her art, and in the proposal that each show addresses to its audience. It is a place of Erlebnis, of existential experience, which is offered to the spectator by this art that both touches and asks questions, an art that has the delicacy to stop, always, before imposing an answer.