Presentation
What do we see? A fantastic metamorphosis of nature, consisting of pulleys and counterweights, that people attempt to subjugate? An homage to the perpetual movements of aerial balance? Inspired by the mobile sculptures of Jean Tinguely, the La Migration company juxtaposes the cycles of an odd machine to the fluidity of the tightrope, all against a backdrop of risk and reward. Marion Even studied theatre and dance while Quentin Claude dedicated himself to the circus arts. Together, they imagined a performance where the spectacular gives way to fragile sensibility and where virtuoso acrobatics meet the flight of the passing bird, the caprice of a gust of wind, or the dream of the audience member.
— Lola Gruber for Paris Quartier d’Été
Writing Marion Even and Quentin Claude
Staging Marion Even
Performers Quentin Claude and Gaël Manipoud
Sound design Jean-Christophe Feldhandler
Creative consultant Jérôme Thomas
Production and administration Natan Jannaud & Ameline Baudoin
Coproductions, residences L’Abattoir, Le Théâtre, Le Sirque, City of Caen,CirQ’ônflex, ARMO–Cie Jérôme Thomas, Théâtre Mansart, La Transverse - Corbigny, Centre Social et Culturel du Parmelan - Annecy, Théâtre Gaston Bernard - Châtillon-sur-Seine, Château du Grand Jardin - Joinville, Collège Côte Legris Épernay, La Maison de Courcelles, Château de Monthelon, ENACR in Rosny-sous-Bois, Balthazar - Montpellier, Académie Fratellini - Saint Denis.
With the support of CircusNext - Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe supported by the European Commission / SACD Processus Cirque / DRAC Bourgogne Franche Comté / Burgundy Franche Comté Regional Council / Côte d'Or Departmental Council - recipient Jeune Talent Côte d'Or / City of Dijon / DRAC Champagne-Ardenne and Rectorat de la Marne / Affluences -Burgundy's performing arts network
"With no concerns about gravity, Quentin dances on the wires and on the beam, evoking those New York construction workers immortalized in the photograph taken during their lunch break atop a half-finished skyscraper in the 1930s." Télérama
Started by Quentin Claude and Marion Even and joined early on by Gaël Manipoud, the Migration company is dedicated to the performance arts and the creation of kinetic structures that merge the worlds of circus and visual arts.
With a philosophy similar to that of the land art movement, the company sought to provide a vision of the landscape through acrobatic techniques and movements. It does the majority of its work outdoors and uses the landscape as a creative partner.
"To be" outside is to ask the question of what it means "to be" in this world. The company seeks to go beyond traditional Western notions of subject-object, to no longer confine the state of being to observation or the construction of a landscape, but to be part of it, to nourish it just as it nourishes us, to coexist and to be in dialogue with it.
"To be" outside is also to re-examine the spaces where circuses are performed, and to bring the art form to new frontiers and tfacilitate new explorations.
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