28th January - 2nd February 2019

Different locations

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Bruit de couloir

La Main de l'homme

France

juggling, dance
40mn

Ages 10 and up

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Presentation

Inspired by the stories of people who have survived comas, the solo show Bruit de Couloir [Hallway Noises] offers a metaphorical vision of death in the form of a juggled dance that looks back on life's events with a certain melancholy. Clément Dazin, immersed in a form of shadowy light, performs a surgically precise form of gestures that move from the brusque to the fluid to the weightless, all to create a unique form of juggling where the balls come to life.

With an intertwining of juggling- and hip-hop-infused contemporary dance, the performance evokes fragments of emotions and life through body movements, balls, and juggling. Bruit de Couloir is a creation that is entrancing and tender, aerial and profound, in which the white balls develop a form of autonomy and create their own entirely separate relationships. The juggling becomes a choreography while the play between light and body accentuates the performer's back muscles and agile hands… Bruit de Couloir hypnotizes audiences by the poetic power of narrative and the delicate technique of the performer.

Distribution

Juggling and dance Clément Dazin
Light design Freddy Bonneau
Sound design Grégory Adoir
Sound technician Mathieu Ferrasson
Choreography consultants Bruno Dizien, Aragorn Boulanger, Johanne Saunier
Light technician and administration Tony Guerin

Production La Main de l’Homme
Support La Magnanerie
Executive producers Les Migrateurs - préfiguration Pôle National des Arts du Cirque Alsace
Institutional support French Ministry of Culture and Communication (DRAC Alsace, DRAC Champagne- Ardennes/Rectorat de Reims), Ville et Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg
Coproduction and residencies Les Migrateurs–Espace Athic, Pôle National des Arts du Cirque Alsace, Le Parc de la Villette–Résidences d’Artistes 2013, La Brèche, Pôle National des Arts du Cirque de Basse Normandie, the CND de Pantin, the Centre National des Arts du Cirque, Le Manège de Reims, Scène nationale
La Main de l’Homme is supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication – DRAC Grand Est, the Grand Est Region, the City of Strasbourg and the SACD.

https://www.biennale-cirque.com/en/program/bruit-de-couloir-124?onglet=distribution

Press

"Clément Dazin casts his white balls like so many luminous spells in this unreal performance entitled Bruit de Couloir." Rosita Boisseau, Le Monde

"Precise and sincere, Clément Dazin has created an original and moving meditation on that intangible entity that keeps us all moving." Lucy Ribchester, The List

https://www.biennale-cirque.com/en/program/bruit-de-couloir-124?onglet=presse

Biography

Clément Dazin has been fascinated by the movement and the mastery of the body since an early age. He began as a gymanist before turning to the circus at the age of 16 with the Point Bar company. After receiving a Master's in management, he joined a circus school in Lyon, before entered Centre National des Arts du Cirque. In 2012, he presented his thesis performance This is The End, staged by David Bobée.

In 2013, he created Bruit de Couloir, a show that he still performs across Europe. He has had production support for his projects from organizations such as La Brèche, which is the branch of the national circus center in Cherbourg, and La Magnanerie. In 2014, he created R2JE for the Avignon Festival/Sujets à Vif, which was a blend of dance and juggling performed with Chinatsu Kosakatani. It was in 2016 that he founded the company La Main de l’Homme in Strasburg. His most recent creation, Humanoptère, is a contemplation on the nature of work and features six supporting jugglers.

Reflecting on this work, he has written, "For me, juggling is an artistic medium, just like painting or sculpture. What I like about this form is its fragility. It is extremely difficult to address existential themes using juggling and it is this complexity that fascinates and thrills me."

website

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