I studied sociology at university and my first job was teaching sport to disabled children. I wanted to be an educator. I've always wanted to hear what people have to say.

All the subjects I deal with come from this approach, the dialogue with our departed (Dear), loneliness (Robot, eternal love), the failure of our businesses (Battle mon cœur), children's secrets (Le Monde à l'envers) and the sublimation of their wounds (Waré Mono). I approach all this with a great deal of humor, distance and letting go. From these intimate questions, I want to talk about universal and intergenerational issues.

Cultural action is central to my creative process, because it's where I gather first-hand accounts of today's world. These singular words become for me the guide to dramaturgy, where space, objects, music and movement are born, leading us to a transversal form. The involvement of the body is essential in my shows. Through dazzling and necessary gestures, like those of children and young people, I seek out the humanity and the child in us all. We've all been children. Awakening the child in us makes theater an intergenerational place.

I want you to leave the show feeling like an artist yourself.

Kaori Ito