Drache nationale
juggling & rain
Premiere in April 2023
indoor & outdoor, in French or Dutch, all ages from 8+
« Drache nationale » is a « popular name given to the heavy rain that sometimes falls on Belgium on the national holiday ». 2020 was full of twists and turns… Like a feeling of waking up every day under the « Drache nationale »… So… How to stay positive when everything sucks?
Tom, Gaëlle and Denis will answer this question in a sensitive and playful way with the conviction that it is in human relations that part of the antidote can be found. In Drache Nationale, there may be juggling, clowning, k-ways, rain and Hollywood effects with two times nothing. This show will be a wink to to the little light in the darkness to the smile under a national flag to the beautiful in the rotten.
Cast : with: Tom Boccara, Gaëlle Coppée, Denis Michiels | Coach : Bram Dobbelaere | Dramaturgy : Gaël Santisteva | Clowning : Christine Rossignol-Dallaire | Lights : Thibault Condy | Costumes : Héloïse Mathieu ● produced by Cie Scratch ● Coproductions & residencies: Maison de la Culture Tournai (BE) | Perplx, Kortrijk (BE) | Latitude 50 – Pôle des Arts du Cirque et de la Rue, Marchin (BE) | UP Circus & Performing Arts, Bruxelles (BE) | Festival International des arts de la rue de Chassepierre (BE) | Centre Culturel Wolubilis, Bruxelles (BE) | CCBW- Centre Culturel du Brabant Wallon, Court-Saint Etienne (BE) | Archipel 19- Centre culturel de Berchem-Sainte-Agathe et de Koekelberg (BE) | Centre Culturel d’Uccle (BE) | La Batoude, Beauvais (FR) ● supported by Risotto, network for theater and art in public spaces at Île-de-France ● funded by: Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles | Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre-Danse
Contact : Chantal Heck
Fiche technique
Duration : Environ 50 minutes
Space : 8x6m
Minimum height : 4m
Audience : max 300
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La compagnie
Cie Scratch [Be]
La compagnie Scratch est née en 2013. L’univers de la compagnie se base sur le jonglage, le scratch, les chorégraphies idiotes, les anticlimax et le surréalisme belge. La manipulation d’objets est au centre des recherches de la compagnie. L’équipe artistique de la compagnie Scratch est composée de 9 jongleurs et 1 jongleuse qui interviennent sur les différentes créations : www.ciescratch.eu
Historiques des créations Scratch : « T.N.T » (2013), « Split » (2017), « Mousse » (2020),
« Akokiya » – création en cours (sortie printemps 2021), « Drache Nationale » – laboratoires en cours (sortie printemps 2023).
