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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, Remy Benard (en alternance avec Tom Collins), Julien Amiot Stage management, 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 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.
