Reflets dans un oeil d'homme
Le Diable au Corps
Acrobatic lifts
Different locations
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Teaser
Presentation
Acrobatic lifts infused with mobility, fluidity, flexibility, energy; the acrobat is a being that adapts and overcomes the challenges of a given moment in order to allow the pattern to evolve over time. Rare Birds is an example of this that combines the respect and precision of bodies in search of the “perfect imbalance”. On stage, six artists arrange their bodies, entangle their arms and legs, seek to create curious shapes, continuously push back moments of imbalance, try, fail, start over, try a little more, with a little extra complexity, maybe even a little more strangeness…
They take advantage of the obstacles and make use of their capacity to avoid, divert, and absorb them and to transform them and use them. Loops repeat themselves, cyclically, but they are always a little different. All attempts to conserve a stable state are illusory. Nothing is permanent but instead there is constant transformation. The question here is not to remain frozen in balance or in a position, but its opposite: to always seek to make a movement evolve, and to be actors in that evolution. The patterns are in constant transformation and provoke chain reactions with a virtuosity that expresses itself on a plane that is beyond the merely spectacular.
Creators/performers Alexandre FRAY, Arno FERRERA, Mika LAFFORGUE, Sergi PARES, Frédéri VERNIER, Špela VODEB
Artistic direction Alexandre FRAY
Artistic coordination Miriam KOOYMAN
Outside view Floor van LEEUWEN
Dramaturgy advisor Bauke LIEVENS
Sound creation Jan BENZ & Steffen LOHREY
Light creation Florent BLANCHON
Costumes Jennifer DEFAYS
Management Pierre-Jean FAGGIANI & Laurent MULOWSKY
Administration Caroline MAERTEN
Distribution Lou HENRY
Special thanks to Jan STEEN, Jozef FRUCEK & Linda KAPETANEA / Rootlessroot.
Un Loup pour l’Homme is a member of Filage.
Production Un Loup pour l'Homme company
Coproduction Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie / La Brèche in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin – Cirque-Théâtre d'Elbeuf; Culture Commune / Scène Nationale du Bassin Minier du Pas-de-Calais; CIRCa, Pôle National Cirque, Auch Gers Occitanie; Tandem Scène Nationale; the Bateau Feu - Scène Nationale Dunkerque; Théâtre Firmin Gémier / La Piscine – Pôle National des Arts du Cirque of Antony and of Châtenay-Malabry; Le Manège - Scène Nationale Reims; Theater op de Markt – Neerpelt; Cirque Jules Verne - PNC / Pôle National Cirque et Arts de la rue / Amiens; Fabrik – Potsdam; Festival Perspectives - Festival Franco-Allemand des Arts de la Scène – Sarrebrück; La Villette; Association Rue des Arts, with support from the DRAC Bretagne; Festival Pisteurs d’étoiles / Espace Athic, Obernai.
Support from the French Ministry of Culture and Comunication; DGCA; DRAC Hauts de France; Région Hauts de France; Ile de France Region; Fonds Transfabrik; ADAMI.
“Beginning a new cycle in a circular ring, Rare Birds revises its terms and emancipates itself from its Icarian search to find a new freedom of being and of action."
“A theater of the body that highlights precise gestures, Un Loup pour l’homme cultivates a sensitive understanding of human beings.”
VEP, Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace, ‘Reflets’, December 2017
“Six rare birds seeking to liberate themselves from gravity through communication.”
“The Un Loup pour l’Homme company has created a show about altruism and the fragility of the present moment whose nearly Zen aesthetic invites contemplation.”
La Vie, Naly Gérard, 21 September 2017
“Like Icaruses suspended in their attempts to fly, Alexandre Fray and his companions occupy their in-between state with grace.”
“By giving up on the ‘prowess of the present’ in order to favor a ‘pattern that evolves over time’, the artists humbly come closer to the essence of their art.”
La Terrasse, Anaïs Heluin, May 2017
“An impressive and meaningful artistic process.”
Sortir Télérama, Stéphanie Barioz, March 2018
Through its practice of acrobatic lifts, the Un Loup pour l’Homme company is commited to defending its vision of humans as social creatures that are as different from each other as they are dependent upon each other. It was founded in 2006 by two acrobats, lifter Alexandre Fray (CNAC of Châlons) and flyer Frédéric Arsenault (École Nationale du Cirque de Montréal). After two creations with the stage director Guy Alloucherie (Les Sublimes, Base 11/19) and a collaboration with David Bobée (Warm), they began their specific research into hand-to-hand balance in 2005.
More than a technique that can be shaped into a performance, for them this practice is a veritable language and a breeding ground for human relations, an art of action rather than one of demonstration in which virtuosity allows for an understanding of humanity. At the heart of their work are physical and artistic risks that stem from an insatiable curiosity and the search for innovation.
After nearly 600 performances of Appris par Corps (which won the 2007 Prix Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe), Face Nord, and Rare Birds, the company is now renowned on both a national and an international level.
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