PLATEAU CIRQUE
Cie OCTOBRE 82 · Cie AMA · KAMMA ROSENBECK & QUENTIN FOLCHER FROM MAISON COURBE COLLECTIVE · ANNA TAUBER & FRAGAN GEHLKER FROM L'ASSOCIATION DU VIDE
A new highlight of the season, Plateau Cirque showcases original work by four emerging companies supported by the Espace Périphérique / La Villette – Ville de Paris. Four shows and eight evenings present a fresh, new vision of today’s circus.
JOHAN BICHOT / CIE OCTOBRE 82 · Glissement Opus 2 · INITIATIVES D’ARTISTES
Tue 20 & Wed 21.05 at 8:00 p.m.
Estimated duration: 1 hour
In this metaphysical farce, Johan Bichot plays a character almost out of a silent film who debates the world around him, condemned to trying to catch objects that nevertheless slip out of his grasp, without really knowing why. He employs a treasure trove of gestures, acrobatics, and precariously balanced constructions to clutch malleable clay cubes suspended from hangers. A humorous pursuit of a grail that makes for a stunning choreography.
This performance has benefited from the Initiatives d’Artistes de La Villette program, which supports the creation and dissemination of works, assisting artists throughout the development process until the realization of their performance.
ELODIE GUEZOU / CIE AMA · (Dé)Formation Professionnelle
Fri 23.12 at 8:00 pm , Sat 24.12 at 6:00 pm
Estimated duration: 1 hour
Contortionist Élodie Guézou explains how and why she bends over backwards, literally and figuratively. In this piece combining contortion and theatre, her story incorporates fragments of her own life, dialogues, performances, and scientific insights. They say everything about a journey punctuated by challenges and sacrifices and pushed to the point of exhaustion and a breakdown. This proves the starting point for this offbeat examination of our relationship to our work.
KAMMA ROSENBECK ET QUENTIN FOLCHER / COLLECTIF MAISON COURBE · Le Paradoxe des jumeaux · INITIATIVES D’ARTISTES
Tue 27 & Wed 28.05 at 8:00 p.m.
Estimated duration: 50 min
Quentin Folcher and Kamma Rosenbeck explore our relationship to time in a work where circus, dance, and the visual arts coexist. One person evolves suspended mid-air while the other remains on the ground, balancing on their hands. There in lies the paradox: These twins will not have the same experience of time, nor will they age at the same rate. Movements in slow-motion, that have been accelerated or suspended, with clear or gradual stops, render this distortion palpable.
This performance has benefited from the Initiatives d’Artistes de La Villette program, which supports the creation and dissemination of works, assisting artists throughout the development process until the realization of their performance.
ANNA TAUBER ET FRAGAN GEHLKER / L’ASSOCIATION DU VIDE · Suzanne : une histoire du cirque
Tue 3 & Wed 4.06 at 8:00 p.m.
Duration: 1:20
In its description of Anna Tauber’s encounter with a 1950s circus acrobat, Suzanne: A History of the Circus is a captivating inquiry in the form of a dialogue as she reconstructs her act with modern-day acrobats. Alone on stage, accompanied by a film (composed of archival footage, interviews, images, and sounds recorded with a mobile phone), Anna combines her story with that of Suzanne and the contemporary circus to offer a documentary performance and film as fluid as it is moving.
JOHAN BICHOT / CIE OCTOBRE 82 · Glissement Opus 2 · ARTISTS’ INITIATIVES
Executive production Pahaska production Confirmed co-productions La Verrerie d’Alès, Pôle National Cirque Occitanie – Le Croiseur, Lyon Currently under negotiation Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde, Bagneux – LE PÔLE Arts en circulation, La Seyne sur Mer – Théâtre Le Vellein, scènes de la CAPI Residencies La Verrerie d’Alès – Le Croiseur, Scène découvertes danse – LE PÔLE – Arts en circulation, La Seyne sur Mer – Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde, Bagneux – la Ménagerie de Verre – la Fabrique des Possibles, Noailles – La Halle aux cuirs, Paris With the support of la Ménagerie de Verre as part of the StudioLab program Show presented in partnership with La Verrerie d’Alès / Pôle National Cirque OCCITANIE Artistic direction, staging, choreography Johan Bichot Outside eye, sound design Jamil Attar Lighting design Laurent Patissier Scenographic consulting Domitille Martin Choreographic consulting Marlène Rostaing Consulting on character development and speech Denis Lavant
ELODIE GUEZOU / CIE AMA · (Dé)Formation Professionnelle
With the contortionist Elodie Guezou Technical managers Jules Pierret or Vianney Davienne Text, concept Elodie Guezou Collective staging, sound environment Nicolas Richez and Jules Pierret Outside eye Lucho Smit Writing and dramaturgy consulting Emilie Bonnafous-Armengol Choreographic eye Lisie Philip / Compagnie Antipodes Costumes Elsa Pottier Actor direction Charly Labourier Sociological collaboration Magali Sizorn / sociology researcher and lecturer at the University of Rouen Medical collaboration Dr Michel Ritz / specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation Lighting design Vianney Davienne Scenographic construction Alexis Morsalinne and Félix Debarre Occasional outside perspectives Aurélie Dujarrier, Pauline Sol Dourdin, Alexandra Pavlata / Compagnie N8, and Mathieu Dochtermann Special thanks to Yaqin Deng, Martine Guezou, Danielle Le Pierrès, Daniel Kenisberg, Antoine Tyce and Sébastien Armengol
KAMMA ROSENBECK & QUENTIN FOLCHER / COLLECTIF MAISON COURBE · The Twins Paradox · ARTISTS’ INITIATIVES
Created and performed by Quentin Folcher and Kamma Rosenbeck Outside eye Chiharu Mamiya Composer and musician Sami Dubot Scenography Domitille Martin Choreographic eye Riccardo Pedri Lighting design Carine Gérard Costume design Fanny Gautreau Development / Distribution Marion Marchand Administration Lilamay Benoiton (Védasphère) Co-productions L’Espace Périphérique – Ville de Paris La Villette • Les Noctambules – Nanterre • Le Palc – Pôle National Cirque – Châlons-en-Champagne • Le Plongeoir – Cité du cirque – Pôle National Cirque – Le Mans • Archaos – Pôle National Cirque – Marseille • La Verrerie d’Alès – Pôle National Cirque Occitanie • Residency support and partners Au Brana – Centre Culturel Pauilhac • L’Atelier du Plateau – Paris • L’Essieu du Batut – Murols • La Petite Houssaie Support and subsidies Beaumarchais Grant, SACD 2023 • City of Grenoble • Rhône-Alpes Region • Isère Department • DRAC Auvergne – Rhône – Alpes.
ANNA TAUBER & FRAGAN GEHLKER / L’ASSOCIATION DU VIDE · Suzanne: A Circus Story
Solo performance Anna Tauber Directed by Anna Tauber and Fragan Gehlker Editing Ariane Prunet Recovered frame act Simon Bruyninckx, Marine Fourteau and Luke Horley Safety line none Camera Zoé Lamazou, Lucie Chaumeil and Raoul Bender Documentation Suzanne Marcaillou, François Rozès Costumes and props Marie-Benoîte Fertin, Héloïse Calmet, Lise Crétiaux Final music composition Tsirihaka Harrivel Lighting Clément Bonnin Sound mixing Alexis Auffray Color grading Axelle Gonay General and lighting management Elie Martin For strengthening the narrative Perrine Carpentier, Aziz Drabia and Roselyne Burger Office logistics Adrien Chupin Special thanks to Maryvonne Métrope, Anne-Marie Sanz, Angèle Guilbaud, Marcel Vidal Castells, Arne Sabbe, Scott Noblet, Angèle Besson, Etienne Charles, Julien Fallec, Jörn Gehlker, Coline Chinal, Pernin, Lara Manipoud, Eflam Gehlker, Louis Lamer
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