Dear audience, you’re attending the Awards ceremony, no more and no less, compared to which the Palms, Césars, Lions, Ours and Oscars look like cheap trophies. Virtuoso circus performers, the nine members of the Back Pocket company serve as masters of ceremony, prizewinners and magnificent losers in this show evoking a cinema gala. Except that the glitz soon gives way to manifest jealousies, and the glamorous smiles are supplanted by the most rewarding low blows. The awards ceremony goes out of control, the humour fizzes like champagne, and the red carpet then becomes the stage for high-flying acrobatic prowess!
Les nouvelles hallucinations de Lucas Cranach l’Ancien
Patrick Bonté and Nicole Mossoux achieved their European renown with a memorable show around the prominent Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach – a show that the two Belgian artists are reinventing today, 35 years later. In this work of cumulative illusions, dancers emerge from behind frames, like characters touched by a grace as strange as it is sensual. Whether they’re called Adam, Eve, Judith or Lucretia, these resurrected figures afford us the guilty pleasure of joining with them, five centuries later, in transgressing the rules and eating the forbidden fruit.
An introduction to the show by the artistic team will take place on the 26/03 at 7.15pm (FR).
Fair Play
As unstoppable as Usain Bolt in the 100 metres, two men who are complete opposites, but driven by the same desire to show off their muscles and reach Olympic heights, will have the audience shaking with laughter. On the programme: warm-up, boxing, swimming and a range of other sports performed according to the rules … of the clowning art! Patrice Thibaud and Philippe Leygnac borrow from the best of Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy to combine music, mime and running gags. Between rivalry and hits below the belt, these two sporty cocks of the walk offer a show whose audacity, eccentricity and comedy know no boundaries.
Moya
Aerial straps, trapeze, Cyr wheel, juggling and somersaults: ten artists from South Africa let loose in a display of liberating, acrobatic and colourful élan. Moya celebrates the footwork of two dances full of life and hope, performed in protest against apartheid: gumboot, inherited from the slaves who beat their rubber boots in the mines, and pantsula, a kind of house dance born in the black ghettos of Johannesburg. On a world tour, the Zip Zap company puts its boots back on and twirls, with an insane energy, between contemporary circus and South African melting pot.
Les gros patinent bien
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Il quitte les plaines du Grand Nord, maudit par une sirène pêchée par accident. Il s’évade en patins, à trottinette, en avion. Il découvre l’Écosse, repart vers le sud à dos de mulet, cherche l’amour, toujours. L’histoire serait digne d’une épopée shakespearienne si cet homme-là ne restait pas assis, tout du long, en costume trois pièces. Il est accompagné d’un acolyte en maillot de bain brandissant des centaines de cartons peints, pour faire avancer l’aventure ! Les pancartes défilent, les boites en carton volent et les étapes de voyages s’enchaînent à un rythme survolté. C’est tout le génie de ce road movie poétique et jubilatoire, qui ne s’arrête plus de multiplier les représentations à travers la France.
Dans le cadre du Festival Clowns in Progress de la Kulturfabrik
Molière du théâtre public 2022
Goodbye Stracciatella
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In Goodbye Stracciatella begegnen sich zwei ungleiche Menschen, die sich durch Tanz großen Fragen widmen: Was heißt es, Verzicht zu üben? Wie viel brauche ich, um glücklich zu sein? Zu Beginn tragen die zwei Tänzer allerlei Kleidung – eigentlich haben sie viel zu viele Klamotten an! Mit jeder Schicht, die sie ablegen, und mit jedem Tanz, den sie anstimmen, werden sie freier und offener. So kommen sie auch zu einer Antwort auf ihre Fragen: Wir brauchen weniger, als wir denken. Vor allem brauchen wir mehr Verständnis und mehr Zusammenarbeit.
Feste
With an inimitable mime artistry and tours all around the world, German company Familie Flöz gives life, without a word, to a tale without any bittersweet words, where magic occurs. In a villa looking like a fortress, by the sea, a family is celebrating the daughter’s wedding. In the shadow, the pressure on the domestic servants is at its peak. Social labels are at play when, all of a sudden, a pregnant and homeless stranger shows up. The order of things becomes disrupted… Those naively human but sublime characters carry us away in their wake with humor, poetry and tenderness, with no distinction whatsoever.
Makom
Where do I come from and where am I going? Those questions are tackled by the 10 dancers of the Vertigo Dance Company, an Israeli company. In Makom, this troupe appears as torn between two ends, shaken by the magnetic forces of repulsion and attraction. Successively sensual and contemplative, eruptive and contained, their bodies swing through branches separating them, supporting them and end up, like a bridge, bringing them closer. In a world where every person is looking for a safe position, choreographer Noa Wertheim pits an artistic world of reconciliation and openness opposing walls and isolation.
50 years
The Mummenschanz show up… and so does the audience, everywhere in the world. The Swiss company is more than a name: it is an art form that has left a durable mark on the world of theater with unprecedented and unique shows. Filled with dreams, absurdity and tenderness, those acts give life to universes full of little stories and big creatures. Made of moss, clay, metal or toilet paper, those funny silhouettes perambulate silently, carried by virtuoso artists invisible to the naked eye. Surrealistic situations always end up getting out of hand, bringing about laughter and poetry.
Le Grand Bal
Euphoria, exhaustion and pleasure… An intensity of each moment – of each movement – is conveyed by The Great Ball. 8 dancers come to look for what society does not have to offer: quenching a desire to touch and to be touched, a joy that does not need words and the ecstatic feeling of letting go. Their emotions are easily identifiable and are called anger, desire and compassion. From traditional Occitan melodies to exhilarating electronic beats, choreographers Souhail Marchiche and Mehdi Meghari set an increasingly quick and contagious pace carrying away all this crowd into a mesmerizing collective trance.