Armour
Arno Ferrera and Gilles Polet
Creation 6.04.2024 | 60' | 14+
With the ARMOUR trio, acrobats Arno Ferrera, Gilles Polet and Charlie Hession explore issues of masculinity and virility, with the aim of offering a new perspective. How can men evolve today?
Starting with the notion of (over)protection, which leads to violence, they confront the toxic aspects of virility to open up a space of intimacy and fragility that they find essential. By (over)protection, they mean the mechanisms that create relational obstacles and the impossibilitý of entering the realm of intimacy.
In a hexagonal stage space, the three acrobats use armour made from sports protective gear. They question how a suit of armour can be transformed from a tool for keeping others at arm's length to a surface that makes us more available, more able to relate to one another.
During this very physical performance, the three artists will reach states where gentleness, eroticism and self-mockery find their place. This physical commitment is at the service of a relationship with others based on listening, trust and welcoming intimacy. The trio is constantly evolving, like fluid, timeless mythical figures. By slipping into relationships of seduction and redefined masculinity, they offer a performance of a love that is free and generous, universal and plural, in a joyful complicity with the audience seated as close as possible, all around the dance floor.
Anaïs Longiéras +33 617 15 39 38 / diffusion.armour@gmail.com
Tour dates
• Creation 6.04.2024 : La Brèche, Cherbourg (FR) / dans le cadre de SPRING, festival des nouvelles formes de cirque en Normandie
• 12.04.2024 : Le Prato, Pôle national cirque, Lille (FR)
• 16 & 17.04.2024 : Le Bateau Feu, scène nationale de Dunkerque (FR)
• May 2024 : Passages Transfestival, Metz (FR)
• May 2024 : Festival Perspectives, Sarrebrück (ALL)
• August 2024 : Festival Theater op de Markt, Hasselt (BE)
Direction artistique : Arno Ferrera et Gilles Polet
Conception technique : Pierre-Jean Pitou Faggiani
Développement : Anaïs Longiéras
Auteurs / performers: Arno Ferrera, Gilles Polet et Charlie Hession
Support dramaturgique : Bauke Lievens
Regard mise en scène et chorégraphique : Renée Corpraij
Regard jeu : Gaïa Saitta
Regard acrobatique : Frédéric Arsenault
Création lumière : Anthony Merlaud
Création son : Raphaëlle Latini
Costumes : Kasia Mielczarek
Régie technique : Pierre-Jean Pitou Faggiani
Production - Diffusion : Anaïs Longiéras
Production : Steven Cayrasso
Delegated producer : Les Halles de Schaerbeek (BE)
Coproduction : Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Bruxelles (BE) / Le Bateau Feu, Scène nationale de Dunkerque (FR) / Culture commune - Scène nationale du bassin minier du Pas-De Calais (FR) / Central, La Louvière (BE) / Dommelhof, Neerpelt (BE) / La Maison de la Culture, Tournai (BE) / Le Sirque, Pole National Cirque, Nexon (FR) / Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie - La Brèche, Cherbourg (FR) / Viernulvier, Gand
(BE) / Le Prato, Pôle National Cirque, Lille (FR) / Perspectives, Sarrebrück (DE) / Fonds TRANSFABRIK, fonds franco-allemand pour le spectacle vivant
In coproduction with La Coop asbl and Shelter Prod and with the support of taxshelter.be, ING and of
the tax-shelter from the federal Belgium governement
With the support of : LaGeste, Gand (BE) ; Centre culturel suisse - Paris (FR) ; taxshelter.be, ING et le tax shelter du gouvernement fédéral belge