Judith Zagury and her company ShanjuLab experiment with inter-species cohabitation on a daily basis – a way of living and working with animals outside of the traditional codes of training and performance, by considering their needs as much as their individual personalities and their desires. In the open space in Gimel coexist farm and domesticated animals, a workshop school for children and teenagers, and ShanjuLab – a loabratory for research into animal presence on stage. In just a few years, it has become one of the European references in the matter – ceaselessly questioning itself, its practice and the place of animals in our society.

The riding school’s wooden scenography, ShanjuLab and the animals invent zoochoreographies together. The stage space, as well as the entire site, become a place where our closest relationships with the more-than-human are expressed in a different manner, and whose movements constitute as many attempts at a dialogue between beings. The happy adventure, perhaps, of a living relationship to the living.