Dites-moi (2025) - Gaël Santisteva & Ondine Cloez

Dites-moi (Tell Me) is an immersive, participatory performance that explores the notions of secrecy, truth and fiction through the body, speech and interaction with the audience.

Two people augmented by certain elements of the set are concealed (from beginning to end) under a huge iridescent, changing fabric, almost too beautiful to be true. Invisible but present, they swallow secrets, digest them and transform them. What is confided circulates, moves, metamorphoses or remains spontaneous.

Between confession and invention, honesty and deliberate lies, Dites-moi (Tell me) offers a space for play and listening where intimacy becomes poetic material. Ridicule surfaces, the invisible thickens, and the experience oscillates between gentle ritual, absurd ceremony and moments of shared laughter.

Who has never boasted of being able to keep a secret?

Dites-moi premiered on October 24th, 2025 at Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris), in the frame of Performissima festival.

After TALK SHOW (2017), Garcimore est mort (2021), Voie, Voix, Vois (with Saaber Bachir and Antoine Leroy, 2023) and Piñata Cake (2025), Dites-moi (with Ondine Cloez, 2025) is Gaël Santisteva’s fifth project. In 2026, Gaël will develop the research project Smoothie Songs (and Teen Screams).

Dites-moi - a project by Gaël Santisteva & Ondine Cloez (40 - 90’, 2025)

Creation and performance: Gaël Santisteva, Ondine Cloez
Stage design: Sofie Durnez, Gaël Santisteva
Administration and production: Mélanie Jourdan, Myriam Chekhemani (La chouette diffusion)
Communication and distribution: Quentin Legrand (Rue Branly)
Production: Gilbert & Stock
With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Photos : Ari Bafalouka

 

UPCOMING DATES

Available for touring. Contact us.

PREVIOUS DATES

  • 24.10.2025 | PERFORMISSIMA, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris (FR)

[ Review ] “Troubled, we slip into Dites-moi at 6:15 p.m., the delirious performance by Ondine Cloez and Gaël Santisteva. It is a highly augmented duet on the idea of secrecy. He and she are hidden under a huge iridescent and changing fabric. Their voices are vocoded and their dialogue is full of hilarious clichés, while their bodies become small mountains. The performance is impressively funny and agile.”
Amélie Blaustein-Niddam, cult.news, 25.10.2025