SAT 4 FEB - SUN 5 FEB

Tent Village

Marseille,

23 fragments de ces derniers jours

Le Troisième Cirque / Maroussia Diaz Verbèke & Collectif - En partenariat avec le Collectif Instrumento de Ver

France, Brazil

Aerial straps, fakirism, trapeze, suspended rope, balance board
1h35

Ages 8 and up

Under the big top

Presentation

The show 23 fragments de ces derniers jours [23 fragments of these final days] was created in Brazil and France and it features six circus artists and dancers, six luminous personalities who slice up time and then put the pieces back together again. The group includes a fakir, a trapeze artist, an ex-gymnast, and frevo and funk dancers, and together they wonder how to clean up the debris of the present. How to find the switch for the future because it is up to them to turn on the light. How to find the heroic strength to celebrate the growing number of problems that are also precursors to an equally large number of solutions. How to be optimistic in a stubborn way, how to transform enchantment into hope.

Distribution

Circography* Maroussia Diaz Verbèke
Assistant circographer* Élodie Royer
Performers/creators Lucas Cabral Maciel, Julia Henning, Béatrice Martins, Maíra Moraes, Marco Motta, and André Oliveira DB
General technician Thomas Roussel
Technology desigh Bruno Trachsler
Light design Diego Bresani and Bruno Trachsler
Musical research Loic Diaz Ronda et Cícero Fraga
Scenographic research Charlotte Masami Lavault
Costume technician Emma Assaud
Production manager Marc Délhiat
Head of distribution Marie-Édith Roussillon
Photography João Saenger
Graphic design Lisa Sturacci

Production Le Troisième Cirque Partners L’Agora – national circus center in Boulazac – Nouvelle Aquitaine (residency + coproduction) / Archaos – national circus center for the Mediterranean (coproduction) / L’Azimut – Antony/Châtenay-Malbry – national circus center for the Ile-de-France (coproduction) / Plateforme 2 Pôles in Normandy / La Brèche in Cherbourg and the Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf (residency + coproduction) / CDN in Normandie-Rouen (coproduction) / CIRCa – national circus center in Auch, Nouvelle Gers Occitanie (residency + coproduction) / Espaces Pluriels – national dance theater in Pau (coproduction) / Le Monfort – Paris (residency + coproduction) / Points communs – national theatre in Cergy-Pontoise / Val d’Oise (coproduction) / Le Prato – national circus center in Lille (coproduction) / Le Sirque – national circus center in Nexon – Nouvelle Aquitaine (residency + coproduction) / Le Tandem – Scène nationale Arras I Douai (accueil en résidence + coproduction) / Théâtre + Cinéma – national theater in Grand Narbonne (coproduction) / Théâtre Cinéma de Choisy-le-Roi – national theater recognized for art and linguistic diversity of creation (residency + coproduction) / Théâtre des Quatre Saisons – national theater recognised for art and creation – Gradignan (coproduction) Support Ministry of Culture and Communication (France) / DGCA support program for circus / Institut Français à Paris / Embassy of France in Brazil / SPEDIDAM / Cirque Joie Audace Aventure – Cie Le Troisième Cirque is recognized by the Ministry of Culture and Communication / Drac Ile-de-France

*Circography, noun. (a neologism created by Maroussia Diaz Verbèke in 2015; open source) The specific writing or staging of a circus show. Verb form: to circograph (also means "let's go crazy" in north Brazilian jargon, but that's a coincidence).

https://www.biennale-cirque.com/en/program/23-fragments-de-ces-derniers-jours-653?onglet=distribution

Press

"A desperate cry of love for objects."

– sceneweb.fr

https://www.biennale-cirque.com/en/program/23-fragments-de-ces-derniers-jours-653?onglet=presse

Biography

Maroussia Diaz Verbeke is a circographer (a neologism of her own invention), a director, and a rope acrobat. Since the beginning of her career, she has been meeting and filming people who she discovers have a link with the circus. In 2015, she creatred the company Troisième cirque, then developed Circus Remix, a solo show in the form of a manifesto. She served as the circographer for the show 23 Fragments de ces derniers jours with the Brazilian company Instrumento De Ver. Above all else, she prefers to explore how the circus is a language in itself.

More information

https://www.biennale-cirque.com/en/program/23-fragments-de-ces-derniers-jours-653?onglet=bio