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Six Pieds sur Terre
Lapsus [Fr]
Circus, bricks and eggshells
A trolley creaks.
They, carefree, push.
Together they think up playgrounds made of “bits and bricks”. They build up (wobbly) towers, (weak) bridges, (twisted) monuments. Obviously everything wipes out. Between falling bodies and wasted clouts, juggling clubs fly, unicycle zigzags and eggs crunch.
In a joyful and playful mess, six pairs of feet walk upon this Earth Cause after all, teasing a lot each other means loving each other a bit, isn’t it ?
Credits
With Jonathan Gagneux, Stéphane Fillion, Gwenaëlle Traonouez, Vincent Bonnefoi, Tom Collin, Julien Amiot Stage management Mathieu Macrez , lighting design Matthieu Sampic Sound design Marek Hunhap Direction Johan Lescop Costumes Noémie Letilie Dramaturgy assistance Eric Durnez Photos Spictacle!, Luis Montero Co-producers La Grainerie, fabrique des arts du cirque et de l’itinérance (Balma), L’Espace Catastrophe (Bruxelles), Zelig (Torino), Mirabilia (Fossano), La Central del Circ (Barcelona) dans le cadre du projet TRANS-Mission, avec le soutien du programme culture de la Commission Européenne, École de Cirque de Lyon With the support of Ville de Toulouse – Direction Régionale de la Jeunesse des Sports et de la Cohésion Sociale, Ramdam – lieu de créations et de ressources artistiques (Saint-Foy-lès-Lyon), Le Centre des Arts du Cirque de Lomme, L’Arrosoir à piston Sponsorship Entreprise Megevand, 6ème Sens, Bernard Matériaux
Mirabilia Award 2012 – Young Company Category. Fossano, Italy
Sometimes, in the soft light, around fragile eggshells resembling dead leaves, the troupe gave rise to a beautiful feeling of melancholy bringing us back to our childhood memories, to those days when our simple (but much less virtuoso) games filled us with happiness.
This club of six does not hesitate to take up the foundations of the circus, without seeking innovation at all costs, without seeking performance at all costs. It looks simple, so simple. What matters is what it says about the human being, about its ever-renewed capacity to destroy, to tear apart. And now, on a pile of rubble, a work of art is born. It is as beautiful as a field of ruins.
The stage had become a playground for all human dimensions: friendship, love, group behaviour, and the pleasure of being together. A show like a moment of grace, even a fusion with a very enthusiastic audience that applauded them warmly.
The company
Lapsus [Fr]
The Lapsus Company was founded in 2010 by six circus artists, born out of a friendship trained at the Lyon School of Circus ten years earlier. It presents a sensitive, aesthetic, and committed circus, with a project led by a collective direction. Its challenging yet accessible performances presents powerful universes with refined aesthetics.
Initially, the company creates collective and multidisciplinary performances such as Six Pieds sur terre (2011), Boutelis (2016), and the opening performance of the 41st World Circus Festival of Tomorrow (2020). It then shifts its focus to environmental issues, launching a new cycle of creation with Le Chant du vertige (2021) and Les Grands vertiges (2021), in collaboration with novelist Pierre Ducrozet. The company continues to explore the connection to living beings by developing Ramures (2024), a site-specific project in and around the Grésigne Forest (South of France), in partnership with L’Été de Vaour.
In 2024, the Lapsus Company opens itself to new perspectives and welcomes Florent Lestage as a co-director for the creation of the all-terrain performance Il paraît que (premiere in 2026).
