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Mousse
Cie Scratch [Be]
Juggling & friendship
“What is fragile like forest moss and can foam like a good beer.”
Mousse [foam or moss in French] is an ode to doubt. An ode to our moments of solitude, to all those things we do alone in our corner and that we don’t dare to share. In Mousse, there will be a microphone, balls, a gardener, a plant, a grandmother’s k-way, first France Gall and then Barbara, a professional hairdresser and a big karaoke.
Mousse is a performance about the friendship between Gaëlle and Denis.
It’s a punk juggling show, sad and funny at the same time.
Credits
Juggler Gaëlle Coppée Technician Denis Michiels Coach Bram Dobbelaere Clowning Christine Rossignol-Dallaire Dramaturgy Gaël Santisteva Juggling tips and friendship Eric Longequel Bookings Chantal Heck – La chouette diffusion A production by cie Scratch Coproductions Latitude 50 – Pôle des arts du cirque et de la rue [BE], Centre Culturel du Brabant Wallon [BE] Residencies UP! Circus & Performing Arts [BE], Centre Culturel du Brabant Wallon [BE], Latitude 50 – Pôle des arts du cirque et de la rue [BE], Circus Centrum [BE], Festival International des arts de la rue de Chassepierre [BE], Centre Culturel du Wolubilis [BE], Centre Culturel d’Ath – CAR [BE], La Maison des Jonglages [FR], Maison de la création (CC NOH) [BE], Petit théâtre de la grande vie [BE], PERPLX [BE], Lauréat CircusNext+ (Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union), Subtopia [SE], Cirqueon [CZ] Support Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre-Danse [BE], Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles [BE], Wallonie-Bruxelles International WBI Supported by «écriture en campagne» (Latitude 50 – La Chaufferie-Acte1, la SACD et la SSA) et Cocq’Arts Festival
“Totally burlesque and wonderfully endearing, this is a juggling show that is good for the soul… A pure moment of pleasure.”
“Mousse has the freedom of a jazz piece.”
“With Mousse, the Compagnie Scratch offers us a “solo for two”, in which juggling is a source of humour, burlesque, absurdity and poetry. […] More than a simple juggling act, we are witnessing a theatrical performance, with a comforting message: somewhere between the sublime of perfection and simple chaos lies the history of humanity, which is made up of glorious attempts, most of which are doomed to failure, sometimes with the hope of a half-success, without forgetting all the magnificent failures, which spice up our ordinary lives with extraordinary moments. […]”
“Two shows not to be missed this summer: Mousse, by the Belgian company Scratch, programmed in partnership with the Théâtre des Doms, is a feast of audacity both in the skill of the two jugglers and in the narrative inventiveness they demonstrate in this false solo that blurs the lines and brings tears to the eyes against a backdrop of old French songs.
“But without question, the nugget of the day is Mousse, by the Belgian company Scratch. This unique fantasy is often absurd, deliciously inventive in its dramaturgy as well as in its relationship with language. This art of shifting allows juggling to reinvent itself, the show to escape the generic cages. […] Truly charming!”
The company
Cie Scratch [Be]
Cie Scratch was founded in 2013. The company’s universe is based on juggling, scratch, silly choreography, Belgian anticlimax and surrealism. The manipulation of objects is central to the company’s research. The artistic team of the Scratch company is composed of 9 male and 1 female juggler who work on the various creations: “T.N.T” (2013), “Split” (2017), “Mousse” (2020), “Akokiya” (2021), “Drache Nationale” (April 2023).
In 2021, Gaëlle Coppée received the SACD Prize for the author of a juggled creation in France.
