L'Absolu
Les choses de rien
Metaphysical circus
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Circus, dance, visual arts, and music. La Chose is an organic show that plays with our bearings and blurs the materials. On stage, five artists explore our relationship to hair: from our intimate moments to how we present ourselves to the world, the constant is what we grow on our heads... From the cozy nest to the shaggy mess, the bodies transform on stage, as if in a dream – dance and acrobatic lifts, climbing rope, and cloud swing, wooly beasts and hairy tutus.
For Nathan Israël and Luna Rousseau, La Chose is the troubled part that exists inside all of us, that which we cannot name. It is a hand-to-hand combat between social norms and our own oddities. It is a trance, an overflowing of emotion, a furry fiesta. La Chose is the fruit of a process that already explored a variety of contexts, from research laboratories to the ephemeral piece Corps & Crues, created at l’Atelier du Plateau for FERIA 2017. With La Chose, the piece’s writers further their research on monsters and otherness and on the strong relationship we have to matter. Here hair represents a multitude of symbols.
Authors Nathan Israël and Luna Rousseau
Concept, direction and dramaturgy Luna Rousseau
With Céline Brynart (clown and dance), Julien Cramillet (cord), Nathan Israël (juggling and dance), Chloé Mazet (cord), Maëlle Reymond (dance)
Musical creation Théo Girard
Lights Patrice Besombes
Set design Domitille Martin
Stage manager Jean-Marc Beau
La Chose is production by the Le Jardin des Délices and coproduced with Théâtre ARLES, Espace Athic Festival Pisteurs d’Étoile, Obernai, CIRCa, Auch, La Biennale des Arts du Cirque - Archaos, Festival de Mirabilia – Fossano, Italy
Residencies Théâtre ARLES, L’Étang des Aulnes, with the support of the Bouches-du-Rhône Departmental Council - Centre de Départemental de Créations en résidence, Le Réseau Grand CIEL, Cirk’Eole, Montigny-les-Metz, Le Palc / Pôle National Cirque Grand Est for workshopping, Chalons en Champagne, CIRCa - Pôle National des Arts du Cirque, Auch, Festival Mirabilia – Fossano, Italy, La Chaufferie – Saint Denis L’Espace Catastrophe, Centre International de Création des Arts du Cirque – Brussells, Belgium.
“It is all absolutely incredible – the concentration, the determination, the precision, the emotions.” Mediapart, Georges Bonnet, August 2014
“Between dance, the circus, and the theater, the balance is perfectly held.”
Regardencoulisse.com - Remy Batteault - 30 April 2017
“Children and adults alike will be as quick to break out in laughter as they will be to exclaim their wonder before their clownish stunts.” Tribune de Lyon, Samuel Kahn, June 2016
“L’Homme de Boue offers the poignant spectacle of the human condition.”
“A moment of searing poetry.”
Les Trois coups.com, Laura Plas, August 2014
“Confounded by the power of their physical prowess, caught in a halo of mysterious light, the specrator is at times taken, at times lifted, to a higher horizon. An incredible juggling show.” Le poulaire du centre, August 2014
The Jardin des Délices company was founded in 2014 by Luna Rousseau (author, stage director) and Nathan Israël (author, performer). Together they have invented a hybrid, multidisciplinary circus that takes a humorous look at the notion of monsters. A notion that often includes anybody that is a bit out of the ordinary…a definition that certainly encompasses circus artists!
