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Corps tendres
Lucie Yerlès [Be]
Sensitive, acrobatic tales
Corps tendres is an exploration of the sense of touch — touch as a gesture of attention, tenderness, safety, guidance, and sometimes even violence.
In this immersive performance, four acrobats and a musician invite us to experience a sensory and unifying journey. Blending acrobatic feats with collective reflection on notions of trust and consent, this new creation by Lucie Yerlès joyfully sheds light on our relationship to bodies and their interactions.
A performance to be experienced with family, alone or with others, regardless of your age, background, or sensitivity.
Credits
Concept Lucie Yerlès Lighting Design & Artistic Collaboration Gaspar Schelck Performance Félix Rapela, Laila Umeko, Wout Deneyer, (ongoing) Sound Design Loïc le Foll Assistant Director Pauline Corvellec Sound technician Chamsedine Madec Set design Charlotte Lippinois & Charlotte Burgaud Costume design Rose Alenne Artistic advisors Lorette Moreau, Leslie Mannès, Julien Fournet, Albin Warette, Charly Magonza Production Cécile Imbernon – La chouette diffusion Booking Siham Berrada & Lova Randrianasolo – La chouette diffusion Executive Production MARS – Mons Arts de la Scène Financial support Ministère de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service des Arts forains, du Cirque et de la Rue | Taxshelter, ING & Belgian Federal Government Tax Shelter | Wallonie Bruxelles international | Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre Danse Coproduction & Residencies MARS – Mons Arts de la scène | Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles | Maison de la culture de Tournai & La Piste aux Espoirs | Up – Circus & Performing Arts, Bruxelles | Le PALC, Pôle National Cirque, Chalons en Champagne | Chorège, CDCN de Normandie & Le Forum, Falaise | Central, la Louvière | Le Grand bain, La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil Residencies Centre culturel Wolubilis, Bruxelles | La Roseraie, Bruxelles | La Cascade, Pôle Cirque Rhône Alpes, Bourg St Andéol | Théâtre Varia, Bruxelles | Ad Lib – Résidences Belgium’s LIBITUM | La Grainerie – scène conventionnée, Balma
The company
Lucie Yerlès [Be]
Lucie Yerlès has followed an eclectic educational path, combining a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from ULB (Université libre de Bruxelles) with professional circus arts training at the École Nationale de Cirque de Châtellerault and the École de cirque de Québec. These experiences led to numerous professional collaborations across theatre, circus, and dance, alternately as a performer and as an artistic collaborator. She has notably worked alongside Coralie Vanderlinden, Sébastien Chollet, Yvain Juillard, Michèle Anne De Mey, Agathe Meziani, and Médéa Anselin.
In 2021, she created her first lecture-performance combining aerial silks and neuroscience, Le Solo, in collaboration with Gaspar Schelck. The piece explores what happens in spectators’ brains during circus performances.
The production has been presented in numerous venues and festivals, including Théâtre des Doms, the Festival d’Avignon, Festival UP, Festival de Spa, and Festival Propulse.
In 2022, she embarked on two long-term artistic collaborations:
- With Julien Fournet (Amicale de production) on L’Enfance Majeure, a project that brings together her skills as a dancer, circus artist, and educator. The performance and its various extensions—including workshops, PREAC training programmes, activist Kids Blocks, and the opening event of the Festival d’Aurillac—continue to evolve and gradually expand internationally.
- With the company T.R.A.N.S.I.T.S.C.A.P.E on Une anatomie du mouvement (An Anatomy of Movement), a series of choreographic portraits exploring life journeys shaped by physical practices.
In early 2023, she began creating her second performance, Corps tendres, an immersive research-based project exploring the sense of touch. Keen to maintain a diversity of creative and professional environments, she now trains circus artists in act-creation methodologies based on collective intelligence protocols, notably the DasArts Feedback Method, which she uses to facilitate and support creative processes.
Her main artistic inquiries focus on the place of spectators within the performance framework, and on developing connections between sensitive and visual circus gestures and political and intellectual forms of textuality.
