FABULATION

Creation 2026

Fabulation is a hybrid show combining circus and physical stunts.
It is a piece that explores the boundary between reality and fiction through the prism of two female circus performers and stuntwomen. In Fabulation, we bring together these two disciplines to question our relationship with success, pushing ourselves beyond our limits, and vulnerability.
We want to create a dialogue between these spectacular means of expression and question what brings them together and what sets them apart. Circus is experienced live: immediate and ephemeral, whereas movie stunts exist through a medium. The motorcycle is an apparatus that brings together circus and stunts, and from this common ground we shift from one register to another, from one technique to another.
We also draw inspiration from the human cannonball, a discipline originating in traditional circus, which can be likened to the propulsion techniques used in stunts. Rarely practiced by women, we want to take on these two disciplines and revisit their aesthetics. 
Fabulation seeks to explore the extraordinary while skillfully questioning the fine line between reality, fantasy, and fiction. Playing with the sensational, Fabulation invites us to reconsider our perspective on what lies beyond prowess... As for stunts, it will be both a tool for transformation and fictionalization, allowing us to pretend, to play make-believe, to double ourselves and to divert reality...
Fabulation is an invitation to joyfully fabricate stories in order to make the unseen visible and bring forth new tales of exploits.

With & by Constance Bugnon and Gianna Sutterlet
Dramaturgy : Emmanuelle Nizou
Scenography : Camille Collin
Costumes : Cinzia Derom, Camille Collin
Sound design : Géraldine Belin
Light design : Nelly Framinet
Rigging & human flight : Vincent Van Tilbeurgh
Acrobatic support : Aurelia Brailowsky
Outside eye : Nicolas Fraiseau
Stunt coordination : Barbara Hellemans
Booking : Anaïs Longiéras
Production : Les Halles de Schaerbeek · Agathe Cornez
DELEGATED PRODUCTION : Les Halles de Schaerbeek
COPRODUCTION (in progress) : Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Bruxelles (BE) /  maison de la culture, maison de création Tournai (BE) / Latitude 50, pôle des arts de la rue et du cirque, Marchin (BE) / Le CCN et le Théâtre de Namur (BE) / Collectif Curieux / Hajimé asbl, Bruxelles (BE) / Cirklabo Circuswerkplaats, Louvain (BE) / PERPLX Circuswerkplaats, Courtrai (BE) / Agora, Pôle national cirque, Boulazac (FR) / Le Sirque, Pôle national cirque, Nexon (FR)
RESIDENCIES : Wolubilis, Bruxelles (BE) / Le BAMP, Bruxelles (BE) / Le Plongeoir - Cité cirque, Pôle national cirque, Le Mans (FR) / Les Subsistances, Lyon (Fr) / Latitude 50, pôle des arts de la rue et du cirque, Marchin (BE) / Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Bruxelles (BE) /  maison de la culture, maison de création Tournai (BE) / Le Sirque, Pôle national cirque, Nexon (FR), PERPLX Circuswerkplaats, Courtrai (BE)
WITH THE SUPPORT OF (in progress) : Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service Général de la Création Artistique - Service des Arts Forains, du Cirque et de la Rue / Wallonie- Bruxelles-International / Beaumarchais-SACD, bourse à l’écriture / SACD-Processus Cirque

CREATION CALENDAR
09 - 21 February 2026 // Le Sirque - Pôle national cirque, Nexon (FR) + work stage 20 Feb
24 February - 5 March // Les SUBS, Lyon (FR) + work stage 4 March
11-22 May 2026 // PERPLX - Circuswerkplaats, Courtrai (BE)
17-29 August 2026 // Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Bruxelles (BE)
14-24 September 2026 // Latitude 50 - pôle des arts de la rue et du cirque, Marchin (BE) +
pre-première 25 Sept in the context of Moments de Cirque
9 October 2026 PREMIÈRE // Vitrine,  PERPLX - Circuswerkplaats, Courtrai (BE)