• 31st January - 1st February 2017

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Cabaret Électriquecréation

  • Cirque électrique

    France

    [ BIAC Selection ] Multidisciplinary Circus Cabaret

  • 1h10

Presentation

Inspired by the rebellion of the counter-culture, the Cirque Électrique has created a new version of its famous Cabaret. Subversive styles such as glam, post-punk, and burlesque rub shoulders amid glorious disorder. Above all, the Cabaret Électrique is its own universe. Immersion into an underground populated by the casual and the elegant. Circus artists, performers, fakirs, visual artists, and musicians intertwine their work to an untamed rhythm to give the nights their wild and ferocious colors. The noise roars along at 180 bpm to melt spines and unleash disequilibrium, it's rock-and-roll unchained, it's Rimbaud's drunken boat completely lost at sea.

Orchestration: Hervé Vallée and Cécile Mulot
Master of Ceremonies: Kiki Picasso
Musicians: Hervé Vallée, Jean-Baptiste Very, Maria Fernanda de Caracas
Circus Artists and Performers: Lalla Morte, Séverine Bellini, Yannick Gorbalino
Musical Composition: Hervé Vallée and the Cirque Electrique Band
Light Design: Frédéric Perennec
Sound Engineering: Pierre Pleven
Production: Charles Bodin

“There's some extravagance, some rock, some poetry [...] for a performance that bubbles with madness." – L’Express

“On the program is rock-and-roll poetry, absurd or wince-worthy humor, thrills, and burlesque [...] The ambiance is utterly unique.” – Point de Vue 

Le Cirque Électrique is an identity, a way of life, a residence, an itinerant cultural space in motion. It sets up its tents and its red-and-silver caravans in urban zones to trigger moments of experimentation, unexpected meetings, and random encounters. Since 1995, the Cirque Électrique has succeeded in creating a veritable counter culture. Each time it sets up, it's the chance for renewal and to explore new avenues of creation, performance, and artistic research. The group has a lengthy list of shows such as I Am A ManAba DabaSteam, and Cabarets Electriques, not to mention the celebrated Cirques Laboratoires. Since 2011 the Cirque Électrique has been located at the Porte des Lilas on the fringe of Paris in an attempt to construct a heterotopia above the traffic of the city's beltway.

Supported by the City of Paris and the Mairie of the 20th Arrondissement, the group has developed a profusion of cultural activities that are part of an artistic calendar that is both heterogeneous and transgender. The Cirque Électrique also has a circus school and a unique bar and restaurant. The site is now a cultural landmark in France and attracts audiences from across the country, while the company is also building a European and international reputation as a result of its touring shows.

  • Tuesday 31 January 10:00pm
  • Wednesday 1 February 10:00pm

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