Stepping, walking, is at the heart of this 40-minute performance. The title pays homage to the rhapsodes, the interpreters of Homer and other Greek authors who went from town to town declaiming their epics. The performer will thus walk, developing the binary structure of the movement of walking, the most basic and natural of human movements. And that Smiley? As she moves her body, Marie-Caroline Hominal composes a series of emotions on her face, evoked today by emojis that owe much to the masks of Greek theater.

Rhapsodie Smiley continues the line of work developed in the other performances for non-theatrical spaces J’hésite entre Croquis et Arabesque et La métamorphose (2024) as well as Eurêka, c’est presque le titre (2021): the totem of drawings and the horse reappear, thus becoming recurring motifs in these performances.