Traits d'union
L'Envolée Cirque
Aerial Acrobatics on Quadrisse, Traditional Wire
Tent Village - Plages du Prado
Marseille,
Presentation
L’Effet Bekkrell is a shape-shifting show that plays with the instability of matter and the precariousness of situations. Cables, wires, cords, and boards are the apparatuses that these four women handle with limitless energy, like the rays emitted by a radioactive source. Explosive rock-and-roll, singular poetry, absurdity of situations, this piece of circus theater blows up the frame and invents its own script. Here, the drama of a situation finds its grotesque double, the precariousness of a condition reveals its precious nature, the linearity of our existence expresses the need for change. Who knows if balance will find its source in this chaos?
A Groupe Bekkrell Creation
With and By: Fanny Alvarez, Sarah Cosset, Océane Pelpel et Fanny Sintès
Sound Design: Thomas Laigle
Lighting Design: Clément Bonnin
General Management: Julien Lefeuvre
Sound Technician: Thomas Laigle ou Manuel Pasdelou
Apparatus Set Design: Florent Pasdelou
Costume Design: Lorenzo Albani
Direction Counsel and External Eye: Pierre Meunier
Artistic Creation and Production Direction Support: Anna Tauber
Friendly and Philosophical Outlook: Marie-José Mondzain
Distribution: Elsa Lemoine – l’Avant Courrier
Administration: Louise-Michèle You – l’Avant Courrier
“If Mad Max had to take part in the circus – and had been a woman – he would probably have participated in L'Effet Bekkrell.” – Le Télégramme
The Groupe Bekkrell was born in 2009 when Fanny Sintès briefly left the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique de Paris to join the Centre National des Arts du Cirque de Châlons-en-Champagne. There she met Fanny Alvarez, Sarah Cosset, and Océane Pelpel. The Groupe Bekrell is first and foremost a group of four students, four comrades, four friends, four acrobats, four gluttons, four jokers, four curiosity seekers, four little rascals. They are also four individuals who are fascinated by the instabilities that nuclear physics reveals to us.
This is an artists collective whose name is inspired by the man who discovered uranium's natural radioactivity: the great Henri Becquerel. (And the members of the collective find it rather curious that he had to share the prize with Marie and Pierre Curie whose family name is so close to the French word "curieux".)
But it is also a group that seeks limits and points of imbalance.
It is certainly a chaotic and joyful terrain.
It is above all else an ensemble that has known individual and group tumult.
It is always a matter of hazardous attempts.
It is sometimes the glory of surprising results.
It is sometimes risky.
It is a little sparkly.
And that's just what's needed.
Finally, it is a show that was created at the Elbeuf theater on March 12, 2015.
