Wet Songs is an experimental musical for five performers from different artistic fields – dance, music, spoken word, opera singing – which invokes and celebrates water as an element that transforms our perceptions, our imaginations and our relationships.

Structured around songs, Wet Songs attempts to recount, through the prism of water, what burns us, dries us out and overwhelms us, in order to outline what we could collectively re-irrigate, whether it be our emotions or spaces of possibility and connection. Wet Songs is an emotional journey, from laughter to tears: an invitation to overflow.

CREDITS
Conception and choregraphy	Nina Santes
Creation and performance	Dalila Khatir (singing and danse), Wol (singing, trumpet, beatbox), Sati Veyrunes (singing and danse), Makeda Monnet (lyrical song, harp, danse), Silex Silence (spoken word and danse)
Light creation	Louise Rustan
Sound creation	Aria “Seashell” de la Celle
Accessories	Charlotte Gautier Van Tour
Eco-conception coaching	Annie Leuridan
Technical Coordination	Steven Le Corre
Administration, production, development	Barbara Coffy
Production	La Fronde
Coproductions	Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans – CCNO, Le Manège, scène nationale-Reims, Charleroi Danse – Bruxelles, Tremplin ARVIVA – Sustainable initiatives for performing arts, Carreau du Temple, Lieu Unique in the frame of Libre Usine, La Briqueterie CDCN, Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble (in the frame of the residency ”accueil studio” 2025) (confirmed)
	The project is a winner of the Tremplins ARVIVA encouraging sustainable initiatives in the performing arts, and is supported by the Mécénat de la Caisse des Dépôts.
	Nina Santes benefits from the Associate Artist programme set up by the Ministry of Culture, at the Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans from 2021 to 2023
	Nina Santes and La Fronde are also associated artist with the Manège – Scène nationale de Reims, from September 2021 to June 2024

CALENDAR	Public performances
27-28 march 2026	Charleroi Danse, BE
9-10 October 2025	Premieres – Festival Excentriques – CDCN La Briqueterie
20 September 2025	CDCN Dancing – outdoor prepremiere, Festival Entre cour et jardin
17 May 25	Work in progress, CCN Grenoble, FR
16 January 25	Work in progress, Lieu Unique, Nantes, FR
15 November 24	Presentation of the work-in-progress, Charleroi-Danse, Brussels, Belgium
12 October 24	Performance and end of association, CCNO, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans
4 July 24	Presentation of the work-in-progress for professionals, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris
14 apr 24	Wet Songs, practice sharing, CCNO, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans
14-16 mar 24	Wet Songs, practice sharing, El Caldo Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
6 mar 24	Wet Songs, practice sharing, Manège de Reims
02 dec 24	Wet Songs, practice sharing, Manège de Reims
04 nov 23	Wet Songs, practice sharing, CCNO, Orléans