Pour le meilleur et pour le pire
Cirque Aïtal
Circus
Tent Village - Plages du Prado
Marseille,
Teaser
Presentation
ABASEDOTETODESABA is a Portuguese palindrome that reads "the bottom of the ceiling is collapsing." A house is crumbling and yet, renewal is possible… The performance is inspired by saudade, that word that so many consider untranslatable, an expression of intense melancholy desire for a beloved person or object that we have lost and that may yet return at an unknown time.
This notion of longing that is fundamentally connected to saudade is evoked by the circus techniques of aerial hoops and acrobatic lifting that lead to the question: how can you address the idea of absence in an artistic discipline that, as a starting point, can only exist with the presence of another?
It is through an attachment to the body that the indefinable saudade eventually finds its unique resonance: "Once in contact, our two bodies become our home, the power that reunites us goes beyond the love of a couple. This is more than mere attraction between two bodies: this power is the result of what we have lived everywhere we have been; it allows us to find our home within ourselves, by inhabiting the bodies of one and another. The union of two bodies is our ultimate refuge: we are talking about the present, we are talking about the road, we are talking about a bridge."
Liz Braga and Pedro Guerra creation and performance
Michel Cerda collaboration on the staging
Jean-Michel Guy collaboration on the theatrical performance
Lilou Magali Robert choreographic insights
Diliana Verkhoff light and sound design
Juninho Ibituruna musical composition
Production Association Asin and the Collectif Na Esquina
Coproduction Archaos, Pôle National Cirque (13), Théâtre des Franciscains (Béziers, 34)
Subsidies Ile de France Region - creation grant
Residencies Station Circus (CH), Le plus petit cirque du monde (92), Archaos Pôle National Cirque (13), Théâtre des Franciscains (34), Académie Fratellini (93), AyRoop (35), La Cascade Pole National des arts du Cirque (07), Espace Catastrophe (Bruxelles), City of Vitrolles (13)
“Between acrobatics, singing, and aerial hoops, this Brazilian pair performs a variety of numbers that reflect the feeling of longing for their native country. But this isn't a story of suffering. It contains the hope of meeting once again. The well-considered performance is the result of reflections that began in 2016.” Midi Libre, 3 March 2018
Liz Braga and Pedro Guerra met at Spasso, the circus school in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where they began their circus training. In 2008, they left for Europe together to learn a discipline that was little-known in Brazil: hand-to-hand circus. Having graduated from the Academie Fratellini outside of Paris in 2011, they have since worked for several French circus companies as performers.
In 2012, they joined forces with seven other Brazilian artists to create the circus collective Na Esquina, which they used as a vehicle to produce shows in Brazil and Europe. Their eponymous performance Na Esquina toured in 2015 and 2016, with such notable dates as the first edition of the Biennale Internationale des Arts du Cirque in Marseille, the Festival des 7 Collines, the Academie Fratellini, the Festival Sul Filo Del Circo in Turin, and the Circus Station in Switzerland. The creation of this collective allowed the artists to realize their dream of building a creative bridge between Brazil and Europe.
- Wednesday 23 January 08:30pm Théâtre Municipal de FontblancheVitrolles
- Tuesday 29 January
07:00pm
Performance combined with
Le Fil Rouge - Friday 1 February 07:30pm
- Sunday 3 February 03:30pm Théâtre ComoediaAubagne
- Tuesday 5 February 08:30pm
