For atla, Louise Vanneste continues the research that she began with Thérians, where literature pervades her choreographic writing. Her reading of Michel Tournier’s Friday, or, The Other Island is not intended to transpose the myth of Robinson Crusoe to the stage. She provides a sensorial experience by conjuring images and mental landscapes. The hero’s confrontation with the desert island, solitude, Friday and the sun are all situations from which the choreographer and her collaborators invent a new narrative. Louise Vanneste delineates a choreographic mapping between installation and stage presentation, and immerses the audience in an intimacy with the environment they are experiencing. The boundaries between interior and exterior, real or imagined geography, open space and a retreat into the self are blurred as the audience wander freely about. To choreograph is to open a road into the territory of the imagination.