Try again!

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."  Samuel Beckett, with this often-used phrase in schools, indicates a positive view of failure as a necessary step in learning and improvement.

With this idea, Beckett encourages perseverance and emphasizes the importance of experience, even when it involves mistakes. Every attempt, even unsuccessful, allows for learning and progress. He overturns the notion that failing means faulting: refusing failure is to condemn oneself to powerlessness; accepting it is to give oneself a chance to succeed.

The choreographer Marine Colard invites first-year students to develop a work around this notion as a dramatic axis, taking the counterpoint of performance and skill as a comedic lever: failing with humor, failing with flair!