A nos Fantômes
Aerial fable
On tour
Indoors – All ages from 6
Gloria was never a Swedish singer or a figure skating champion,
but she dreamed of it.
Hanging in midair, looking uncomfortably overdressed,
she’s waiting for things to happen.
Thud! Free fall entrance. A young woman lies on the ground.
The resemblance is uncanny. Could it be… her?
Distribution: Writers and Performers : Célia Cassagrande-Pouchet, Sarah Devaux, Direction: Tom Boccara, Artistic Management: Mélissa Von Vépy, Sound Designer: Noé Voisard, Light Designer and Stage Management: Thibault Condy, Costumes: Julie Antipine, Production et diffusion : Marion Lesort – La chouette diffusion Une Production de la Cie Menteuses [BE] ● Coproduction & Backing : Espace Catastrophe – Centre International de Création des Arts du Cirque [BE] ● Coproductions CAS / Centre des Arts Scéniques [BE], MA-Scène Nationale du Pays de Montbéliard [FR], SACD processus cirque [FR], Centre Culturel du Brabant-Wallon [BE], Maison de la Culture de Tournai [BE], Latitude 50 – Pôle des arts du cirque et de la rue de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles [BE] ● Residencies : MA – Scène nationale du pays de Montbéliard [FR], Espace Catastrophe [BE], Centre culturel du Brabant-Wallon [BE], Latitude 50 [BE], Théâtre de Baia Mare [RO], CAPI Théâtre du Vellein [FR], La Batoude- Centre des arts du cirque et de la rue [FR], La Grainerie – Balma [FR], Destelheide – Dworp [BE], Château de Monthelon [FR] ● Supports : Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Service Général de la Création artistique -Service du Cirque, des Arts forains et des Arts de la Rue, Théâtre National / Festival XS, SACD Belgique.
Contact : Cécile Imbernon
Technical rider
Duration : 50 minutes
Stage : 9 X 10m
Minimum height : 7m
Set up: D-1
Take down: 3h
Audience : 200-400
A moving and innovative piece of contemporary circus, I applaud À Nos Fantômes for its beauty and its depth. Dark and yet comical, this piece – much like its protagonist – is two sides of an ever-turning coin.
The tableaux follow one another, framed as closely as possible by a work on sound and lighting. Dressed in an eloquent soundtrack, the young women run up, graze the ground, embrace eternity and grab us. At the limit of flight, they explore this fleeting state of floating, an inexhaustible space for research. All in grace. This circus is an incredible cinematographic ballet of beauty.
Célia Casagrande-Pouchet and Sarah Devaux lead us to the limits of adult tales. Between dream and reality, absurd and anguish, a remarkable show presented as part of the Up! 2018 festival.
Company
Menteuses [Be]
Sarah and Celia met at the ESAC (Ecole Supérieure des Arts du Cirque of Brussels) in 2011. Sarah uses the free rope, Celia the cloud swing. The artistic connexion between the two was strong and immediate: a true complicity
on the stage, two distinct universes that meet in a certain theatricality full of absurdity and folly, and a particular reflexion on contemporary circus. In 2012, Sarah and Cecilia took part in the Masterclass « Cirque et Cinéma ».
This experience strengthened their desire of collaboration. They got exciting writing inspirations and ideas of research linked to the cinematographic art. Their already strong interest in cinema became a real artistic project with A nos fantômes. At this point, a young film director, Tom Boccara, joined them. His sensibility, his thoughts and knowledge on this domain brought a turning point for the project. Together, they tried to invent a unique language, at the crossroad of their different specialities.
