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A mix of new technologies, art, and circus, this work explores the reality of circus and the possibility for it to interact with objects. Thanks to new or developing technologies, this performance is able to examine the link between scientific progress and the circus artist.
On a stage that resembles a laboratory, three protagonists test the physics of a sphere. Informed by philosophy, computer engineering, and empirical data, these researchers conclude that the complexity of the substance isn't entirely represented by its form. Either consciously or by chance, they begin to test the limits of these spheres and realize the physical properties don't meet their initial hypotheses.
Les Sphères Curieuses tells the story of these scientific researchers who begin to question their fundamental beliefs after making new discoveries. They advance in their work, they discover new things, and they begin to innovate, all while facing the absolute unknown with a bracing innocence. In this way, they manage to create new interpretations of the inherent poetry of these unique objects.
With dance, juggling, and clowning, the performers accentuate all that is beautiful, funny, and touching in these objects.
Staging and performance Antoine Clée
Technical development and performance Adrien Fontaine
Development Benjamin Kuperberg
Engineering and performance Juliette Delfosse
Technical development and performance David Lemarechal
Engineering and performance Jérémy Morelle
Costumes Vaissa Favreau
Coproductions and support Lille Ville d’Art du Futur and Maisons Folie Wazemmes/Moulins/Le Flow/Beaulieu (59); Les Subsistances, Lyon (69); Archaos, Pôle National Cirque (13); University of Bordeaux, Scène Nationale de Meylan and the Experimenta salon (38); Festival FACTS and OARA, Bordeaux (33); EPCC La Barcarolle, Audomarois Arques (59); Centre Culturel Georges Brassens, Saint Martin Boulogne (62); La Ferme d'en Haut, Villeneuve d'Ascq (59); Maison de l'Art et de la Communication, Sallaumines (62); Le Centre Régional des Arts du Cirque de Lomme (59); Le Quai des Savoirs, Toulouse (31)
"On stage, there are two acolytes dressed in black, their faces impassive, standing as if nothing is going on. And yet! With clubs and white ball that appear from nowhere, the duo once again displays that the art of juggling is a perfect complement to clowning and burlesque."
Review of Piste & Love by Stéphanie Barioz, Télérama
"Provoke laughter! Two simpletons find themselves on an unlikely stage and each wants more than their share of the spoils. All is fair as they pursue this objective: juggling, diving, jumping, dancing. It is a matter of using surprise to their advantage, of transforming their partner into the subject of an experiment, of playing both the executioner and the condemned, all while laughing at themselves and each other and making sure the audience is complicit this joyful massacre."
Review of Piste & Love, Lille la Nuit
"The circus carries the audience along in a game that is practically silent and a world that is inspired by Tex Avery or Laurel and Hardy. This is a performance rich in double meanings where both the young and the old can laugh, but not always at the same moment."
Review of Piste & Love, Ouest France
The Cirque Inachevé was founded by Antoine Clée and Thomas Dequidt in 2007. Their work is based on a desire to give juggling a more corporal dimension where their body movements express a new artistic vocabulary. They also seek to inject a theatrical element to their performances with inspiration from the worlds of silent cinema and clowning, as well as through their relationship with the absurd. Le Cirque Inachevé embraces all forms of exchange and uses this philosophy to enrich their artistic practice and give their creations new facets. This multidisciplinary approach results in creations that combine both games and dance. In 2009, they created Piste and Love, a burlesque performance without music or scenography that emphasizes humor and technical virtuosity. This show was awarded the Prix du Public (audience prize) during the Festival au Bonheur des Mômes in 2010 and is still touring. Afterwards, the two began experimenting with solo performances, which provided a new perspective on their complementarity: Thomas focused on juggling and dance using recorded music with Go On (2015) and IWanDé (in progress), while worked on juggling and the digital arts with Les Sphères Curieuses (in progress).