As a child, multidisciplinary artist Magali Chouinard fell under the spell of Jules Verne’s classic book, Journey to the Centre of the Earth. In her latest creation, Nomad Soul, she wished to recreate “that dizzy feeling of going from stratum to stratum, ever deeper, until we reach the child we are and were, that beating heart”. Inspired by the natural landscapes of forest and water and by the spirituality of the indigenous populations of her native Quebec, Chouinard created an extremely personal visual theatre that combines masks, puppets, video projections on translucent screens and short animations. Without the use of a single word, Nomad Soul is an abstract and sensorial fable, in which a guide-wolf and a conscience-crow preside over one woman’s adventurous journey towards her multiple interiority. With its varying scales and materials, Magali Chouinard’s hybrid language brings Nomad Soul into the realm of poetry, enhanced by the sound design and dreamlike black-and-white of her shadow theatre. “What I have constructed amounts to an interior mythology. It is something very rich, and we need to open the door. It is a journey we make… that we must dare make.” Let us dare, then.