2023

Ne me touchez pas

Making touch visible. Making its absence in our societies visible. Dancer Laura Bachman and accordionist Vincent Peirani summon those moments of intimacy, of shared bodily energies and of subtle eroticism, as well as their place in our culture today, sti…

Ma part d'ombre

An extraordinary body defies the rules of dance and the laws of physics. Dancer and choreographer Sofiane Chalal doesn’t mince his words : "You meet me twice, as if my body takes up all the space, including my own". This almost schizophrenic duality betw…

Boudoir

Queer performer and visual artist, the legendary Steven Cohen lives in a small boudoir-like house. Reconstructed for this creation, this cabinet of intimate curiosities houses objects full of so many memories linked to his creations and experiences of th…

Out of the blue

Frédéri and Sébastien, hitherto terrestrial acrobats, immerse themselves in a giant aquarium and invent a new, unexpected circus discipline : free-diving. Taking the plunge is no longer a metaphor. Playing with gravity, rediscovering the sensations of fo…

Tomber du monde

Polar explorer, scientist, skiing champion and Norwegian diplomat, Fridtjof Nansen worked for the recognition of refugee status. Tomber du Monde weaves a rhizomatic quest around this great figure, a riff on questions of the environment, migration, geopol…

Reclaim

More than a show, Patrick Masset aims to create a collective experience, a ritual that we participate in as much as attend. About the origins of the circus, as he sees them: savagery, the ring, strangeness, monstrosity sometimes, hyper-proximity and fear…

Un royaume

It’s summer and Lucie is dreaming. She is an actress on holiday with her daughter and she imagines herself on a horse, in an armour. While she is daydreaming, she meets two lady knights also lost in the same dream. As they wander through the land, all so…

Elles disent

Dancers from all walks of life, women unite around a refined and idealised krump, comparable to sacred gestures and rituals. A krump that dares to push to the point of irrationality of a situation, a relationship, a narrative. They have decided to seize …

White Out

Mountaineering calls for the mastery of movement Harmony and the cohesion of your motions, rhythm and endurance all ensure your balance above the abyss. Yet to portray, on the flatness of a stage, the emotions that arise from the vertiginous verticality …

Merydes - Ce cosmos qui respire avec moi

At the crossroads of circus and magie nouvelle, in her first creation Léa Vayrou makes a living partner of scenography. Resonances, invisible links — the Mérydes — weave between the flying, acrobatic human being, the world that comes alive on stage and t…

L'anatomie du désir

Spectacle inclassable et immersif, L’Anatomie du désir s’inspire des entresorts de siècles oubliés, où des forains déguisés en médecins jouaient des frontières entre désir d’apprendre et désir tout court : au centre du dispositif, une Vénus – que Boris G…

Institut Ophélie

L’Institut Ophélie accueille des jeunes filles, des fous : des dépressifs. Tout sauf ces sujets « performants », battantes et battants, auxquels personne, en temps de crise « des énergies », ne croit plus. Dans ce hors-lieu où l’on cherche à se désadapte…

Foreshadow

After VanThorhout, in which Alexander Vantournhout appeared solo on stage, not standing returns with a group show featuring eight acrobat-dancers. The performers move like gears of a collective body to the tunes of experimental rock music. Together they …