Directed by Julie Tenret, who graduated from INSAS, the company Focus from Brussels creates shows combining theater of objects, puppets, actors and video. The scenic language she proposes is essentially visual metaphorical, poetic, artisanal, very close to a cinematographic writing. Her shows are aimed to all audiences and deal with social issues starting from the intimate, the infra-ordinary to reach the universal. In 2009, in collaboration with Isabelle Darras and Agnès Limbos, she created the show “Fragile”, which received a prize for its sensitivity, its strength and its commitment at the Rencontres de Théâtre de Huy in Belgium. To this date more than 250 performances have been presented around the world. In 2011, in collaboration with Isabelle Darras, she created “Silence”. Silence was presented at Avignon Festival in Théâtre des Doms in 2014. The show received numerous awards: the Maeterlinck Prize for the best young audience show in 2015 as well as the press crush and the Youth Minister's Prize. To this day Silence has been presented 350 times.

Trained in the gestural arts, Sicaire Durieux and Sandrine Heyraud created Chaliwaté company in 2005. Based in Brussels, they defend a visual language without words, poetic, physical and artisanal, mixing gestural theatre, object theatre, circus and dance. For them, gesture is a singular means of creating evocative, suggestive and metaphorical images. Present and active on the Belgian and international scene, Chaliwaté Company creates shows that are accessible to the greatest number of people without language barriers. The company has won numerous international awards and honors and has given more than 1000 performances in all around the world.

Their first show "Joséphina" was created in 2009. The show won various awards in Canada, Mexico and Spain and was nominated for the Maeterlinck Prize in Belgium in 2013 in the "Discovery" category.

In 2011, their show for young audiences "Îlo" was presented at the Rencontres Jeune Public de Huy in Belgium where it received several awards. It was selected by the Théâtre des Doms for the 2012 edition of the Avignon Festival and toured for 6 years in Belgium, France and internationally. The show has been performed more than 350 times.

In 2015, Sicaire Durieux and Sandrine Heyraud teamed up with Loïc Faure to create the show "Jetlag", combining movement theatre and circus. It was nominated for the Maeterlinck Awards in the category "Best circus show" in 2016. "Jetlag" was presented at the Avignon Festival in the OFF in 2018. To this day it continues to tour in Belgium, France and internationally.

In 2018, Sandrine Heyraud and Sicaire Durieux were awarded the SACD Belgium Prize in "Gestual Theatre" for all their shows.