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Boutelis
Lapsus [Fr]
Sleepless Circus
She lives in a place with no exit doors, as if to leave this room was invariably to enter it. To escape, she’ll dive into her imagination. Vertiginous rise. Dive towards those who inhabit her dreamed everyday, as so many inner demons, so many images of her. Dive into the unknown, to better take flight.
In a sleek and intriguing aesthetic, the Lapsus company presents its latest creation tinged with a captivating dreamlike quality. The seven circus artists invest a timeless space, where the lightness of a kite’s flight can be interrupted by the fight of three titans or the appearance of an animal man: a universe dominated by strangeness that shows a distorted and fragile reality. Like them.
Credits
Cast Gwenaëlle Traonouez, Stéphane Fillion, Julien Amiot, Vincent Bonnefoi, Ronan Duée, Dorian Lechauxn, Jonathan Gagneux Stage management, lighting design Matthieu Sampic Sound design and sound management Marek Hunhap Stage direction Christophe Payot Direction Johan Lescop Costumes Amélie Feugnet Photos Lighuen Desanto With support from the Direction Générale de la Création Artistique, the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées, the Occitanie region, the Adami and the city of Toulouse, the Quai des Arts, as part of the regional cultural relays – Argentan, l’Atelier A – scène conventionnée de l’Agglomération du Pays de Dreux pour l’accompagnement artistique – Vernouillet, La Faïencerie – Creil, La cie Lapsus is a companion artist of La Faïencerie – Théâtre de Creil-Chambly, La Cascade, pôle national des arts du cirque Ardèche / Rhône Alpes – Bourg St Andéol Residencies CIRCa, Auch – Pôle National des Arts du Cirque, hosted as part of the FabeR initiative with the support of the Midi-Pyrénées Region, La Cascade, pôle national des arts du cirque – Bourg St Andéol, L’Ilyade – Seyssinet Pariset, La Batoude – Beauvais, La Grainerie – Balma, La Faïencerie – Creil, pôle Jeune Public, scène conventionnée – Le Revest Les eaux, Woluculture – Brussels, La Gare à Coulisse – Eurre, La Cité du Cirque – Le Mans
For the spectator, the magic happens! Young spectators, mature enough not to be frightened, can see this journey with its sometimes grating soundtrack, populated by dancing spectres and androgynous figures emerging from cupboards. With humour often summoned, but also archetypal childish fears, omnipresent, which transport us. This distorted reality, absolutely fascinating, leaves us telling ourselves stories: daydreamers, to be seen!
And this is how several moments follow one another where the imagination is fed with poetry, dreamlike and sophisticated sequences that highlight both the individual physical performance and the fluidity of certain collective choreographies of these circus artists who populate or haunt, as the case may be, the ramblings and other mental escapes of the sleeping beauty… a world where one is not surprised to see incredible kites flying in all directions, unicycles on the move, random juggling, athletic lifts, slender pyramids or perilous aerobatics…
The images follow one another, with their share of aerial acrobatics, steps above the void and extended balancing acts. Unheard-of bounces on the surface of this random mirror. The circus arts infuse the piece, in a dimension never seen before, so new is the inclusive language of Lapsus.
The company
Lapsus [Fr]
The Lapsus Company was founded in 2010 by six artists who met ten years earlier at the circus school in Lyon. After the creations of Six pieds sur terre in 2011, of Boutelis in 2016 and the opening tableau of the 41st Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in 2020, they have decided in 2019 to join forces with the novelist Pierre Ducrozet to create a triptych that aims to question our place in the living world, and our way of inhabiting the world, at the time of the anthropocene. This triptych consists of a novel (Le Grand vertige, Actes sud – August 2020), a circus show (Le Chant du vertige – December 2021) and a hybrid form mixing circus and literature (Les Grands vertiges – September 2021). After more than 250 performances in a dozen countries, the Lapsus company continues to create a sensitive, aesthetic and committed circus. The successive shows inscribe over time an artistic identity that is the result of several commitments and choices: a refined aesthetic, powerful universes and the multidisciplinary nature of the creations, supported by a collective artistic direction.
