Anyone looking for a unique audience experience should not miss this circus show that takes as its starting point deep reflections on concepts such as the void and the absolute, and uses the languages of circus and dance, in addition to a number of effects, to engage both the senses and the viewer’s unconscious. The audience enters a large cylindrical tent and sits on a rising spiral staircase. The central space, the void, is the stage across which the artist evolves. So is the ground, where a beach of black sand seems to swallow one of the performers. This is a bleak, metaphysical universe in which we’ll be shown what shadows contribute to light, what visible things are born of invisibility and how humankind, aware of its temporary condition, is tortured by its search for the absolute. All of this in three paintings (Le miroir, Le procès, Le sacrifice) that bring us face to face with the void and the infinite, nothingness and plenitude... Optical illusions, an almost cinematographic universe, impossible acrobatics, movement and images that exude poetry, a sound capable of altering the audience’s visual perceptions and lyrical, nostalgic music are highlights of this show.
The company Les Choses de Rien was founded in Paris in 2004 to produce Boris Gibé’s creations, in which contemporary circus meets choreographic writing. The company’s artistic language uses set design, sound, light, machinery and technology to craft shows that raise existential issues, question the human condition and that, by activating our senses and emotions, offer audiences new perspectives.
Produced by Les Choses de Rien, with assistance from Si par Hasard.
Co-produced by Les 2 scènes - scène nationale de Besançon; Coopérative De Rue et De Cirque - 2r2c - Paris; Théâtre Firmin Gémier - La Piscine - Pôle National des Arts du Cirque d’Antony et de Chatenay-Malabry; Cirque Jules Verne - Pole National Cirque et Arts de la Rue - Amiens; Châteauvallon - scène nationale; Espace Jean Legendre – Scène nationale de l’Oise – Compiègne.
With support from Ministère de la Culture - DRAC Ile de France (conventionnement 2015-2017); Conseil Régional Ile de France; Fondation de la tour vagabonde; Lycée Eugène Guillaume de Montbard; SACD - Processus Cirque; L’atelier Arts- Sciences, partnership between L’Hexagone scène nationale in Meylan & and the CEA of Grenoble; Ass. Beaumarchais - Bourse Auteur de Cirque, La Fondation de la Tour Vagabonde.
Residencies: La Gare - Marigny-le-Cahouet, CEA - Grenoble, 2r2c - Paris, Le Château de Monthelon, Les 2 scènes - Besançon.
Gibé is an associate artist at Les 2 scènes - scène nationale de Besançon.
This venue is not accessible for people with reduced mobility.
Audiences should note that strobe lighting effects will be used at one point in the show.
This show is recommended for audiences aged 10 and above.
Conceived and performed by: Boris Gibé. Dramaturgical perspective: Elsa Dourdet. Choreographic perspective: Florencia Demestri, Samuel Lefeuvre. Wardrobe and fabric creation: Sandrine Rozier. Stage and technical management: Quentin Alart. Technical direction: Florian Wenger. Stage design: Clara Gay-Bellile & Charles Bédin. Lighting design: Romain de Lagarde. Sound production and technical direction: Olivier Pfeiffer. Construction of the silo: Clara Gay-Bellile & Charles Bédin (associate architects), Quentin Alart (structure engineer), Clément Delage, Florian Wenger, Jörn Roesing, Richard Rivers (builders). With assistance from Alain Frérot, Alexis Auffray, Armande Jammes, Bertrand Duval, Clara Charlie, Gaël Richard, Gérard Naque, Ikram, John Carroll, Marinette Julien, Sarah Pécout, Suzanne Péchenart, Samuel Bodin, Tiziano Lavoratornovi, Ulysse Lacoste.
