Mousse
Juggling & theatre
on tour
All places (theaters, streets, ships, castels, attics…) – in English, French or Dutch – All ages from 6
“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 aboute the friendship between Gaëlle and Denis.
It’s a punk juggling show, sad and funny at the same time.
Cast: Juggler : Gaëlle Coppée, Technician : Denis Michiels, Coach : Bram Dobbelaere, Clowning : Christine Rossignol-Dallaire, Dramaturgy : Gaël Santisteva, Diffusion : Chantal Heck – La chouette diffusion, Juggling and friendship advices : Eric Longequel ● Partners : Coproductions : Latitude 50 – Pôle des arts du cirque et de la rue [BE], Centre Culturel du Brabant Wallon [BE].
Residencies : Espace Catastrophe – Centre International de Création des Arts du Cirque [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]. With the support of : Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre-Danse, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Wallonie-Bruxelles International WBI [BE]
Contact : Chantal Heck
Technical rider
Duration : 50 minutes
Stage : 10 x 6 m (less is possible) – outdoors: 6 x 6
Minimum height : 4 m
Set up: 6h ( indoors) – 2 h (outdoors)
Take down: 2h ( indoors) – 1 h (outdoors)
Audience: max 300
His work, but also Jesse himself, embodies a message of hope that our society needs: a life is not defined by one’s limitations but by how one faces his obstacles.
Jesse’s story is very impressive, but his new production contains more then his personal story. In a period in which mankind is literally and figuratively gasping for air A 2 mètres will be a fresh breeze, a performance of hope.
Cystic fibrosis patient makes extraordinary acrobatic performance ‘A deux mètres”
Jesse, a CF patient from Edegem (BE), will make an extraordinary acrobatic performance. ‘A deux mètres’ it is called. These two meters refer to the oxygen tube of two meters he has to carry.
But it is also the mandatory distance that we have to maintain from each other to prevent viral or bacterial cross contamination. For Jesse it is also a physical challenge.
Between dance, acrobatics and juggling, in balance between rivalry and cooperation, each one crosses the other’s gestural universe, pushing him/her towards more synchronized movements. Carried by a minimalist percussive music, the two artists then draw a plastically perfect choreography.
For the spectator the magic works! Young spectators, mature enough not to be frightened, can see this journey with its sometimes squeaky soundtrack, populated by dancing spectres and androgynous figures emerging from cupboards. With humor often called for, but also archetypal childish fears, omnipresent, which transport us. This distorted reality, absolutely fascinating, lets us tell ourselves stories: waking dreamers, to be seen!
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 performance was a wonderful and entertaining experience, with incredible feats of acrobatics, juggling and coordinated skills.
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 take us to the confines of adult tales. Between dream and reality, absurdity and anguish, a remarkable show.
…] The young women dash out, graze the ground, embrace eternity and grab us. At the limit of flight, they explore this fleeting state of floating, inexhaustible space of research. All in grace. This circus is a hallucinating cinematic ballet of beauty.
For a long time, it inhabits you, it haunts you. Love, glory and beauty: nothing like it to feel alive!
No cultural or linguistic borders here, just human, sensitive, visual. The show played internationally. If you see it programmed somewhere, I can only encourage you not to miss the opportunity to dive into this universe of performances and mixed emotions.
A successful and clearly mastered artistic proposal.
A physical ballet, but also poetic, will then lead the two men to touch and graze each other.
And so it is that several moments follow one another where the imagination is nourished by poetry, dreamlike and sophisticated sequences that highlight both the individual physical performance and the fluidity of certain collective choreographies of these circus artists who populate or haunt, it is according to, the ramblings and other mental escapes of the sleeping beauty … a world where it is not surprising to see incredible kites flying in all directions, unicycles in goguette, random juggling, athletic lifts, slender pyramids or perilous voltiges …
The images follow one another, with their share of aerial acrobatics, steps over the void and extending balances. Unheard-of bounces on the surface of this random mirror.
The circus arts infuse the piece, in a dimension never seen before, so new is the inclusive lan-gage of Lapsus.
An explosive show with subtle light effects, which combines juggling, acrobatics on the ground, hand to hand and unicycle. The Lapsus Company offers a performance that reminds us of pieces such as Oh les beaux jours or En attendant Godot.
Sometimes, in a soft light, around fragile eggshells that looked like dead leaves, the troupe created 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 doesn’t hesitate to take up the foundations of the circus, without seeking innovation at all costs, without seeking performance at all costs. It sounds simple, so simple. What’s important is what it says about human beings, about their ever-renewed capacity to destroy, to tear to pieces. And then, on a pile of rubble, a work of art is born. It’s as beautiful as a field of ruins.
The stage had become a playground for all the human dimensions: friendship, love, group behavior, and the pleasure of being together. The show was like a moment of grace, even a fusion with a very enthusiastic audience who applauded them warmly.
Being able to connect with the innocence, beauty and courage of childhood is a truly precious experience.
The couple work in perfect harmony and end up combining their skills in an artistic and beautiful way.
The whole show is a refreshing and uplifting cool breeze, a spritzer for the soul.
The performance was a wonderful and entertaining experience with incredible feats of acrobatics, juggling and coordinated skills.
Company
Cie Scratch [Be]
Scratch Company is founded in 2013 by 7 jugglers. Their first creation T.N.T. was created the same year. In 2017, the company created SPLIT!
The company’s universe is based on scratch, juggling, silly choreography, anti climax and Belgian surrealism. They have fun staging everything and anything, always remembering that anything is possible but not just everything.
After two collective creations, Mousse is a solo or almost a solo. Gaëlle is accompanied on stage by Denis, the technician. Denis is his best friend.
GAËLLE COPPÉE
The juggler – likes to listen to the “old” French song that everyone finds old-fashioned, wash dishes in hot water, want to take a bath, ride a bike when the ground is flat and not too long, watch people through the bus or tram window, seeing this lady running and not arriving before the doors close, watching her reaction, doing backcross and three-ball sholder, thinking that the lady who missed her bus is going to get cold because it’s raining and wondering why she was in such a hurry, finally not take a bath, eat cheese, eat pasta, eat cheese pasta, eat cheese pasta, think that if she opened a cheese pasta restaurant and only that, she could make a fortune in this concept, fall in love, go to the supermarket and imagine the life of people waiting in line by analyzing their shopping cart, thinking that this person who buys only yogurt and croquettes for his cat seems to have a sad life, the smell of gas stations, be alone and swim until his head turns.
The juggler – doesn’t like to empty the dishwasher (but that was especially when she was a little girl, now she’s going to), open the fridge and see that there’s no food, that it’s too hot or that there’s too much sun, finding clothes to get dressed and go to a wedding, thinking you have to be both chic and cool at the same time, remembering the time she gave everything to be chic and still looked out of line, doing her hair and going to the hairdresser.
DENIS MICHIELS
The technician – likes to drink coffee in the sun, walk around, tinker on a computer, generally tinker, have a drink, do blue Chimay, juggle, be a clown, the county, talk for hours to change the world without the world noticing, learn about nature, Herman Hesse, do debates for the sake of debate, being a godfather and knitting slippers, playing chess with a good friend, going to a bar, his little habits, french fries, scouts, looking at the horizon, taking a port on a boat, sailing, being stuck on 10m2 with his best friends in the middle of the water, his orange tree, doing magic in front of his mirror, imagining algorithms, thinking of a free internet, procrastinating.
The technician – doesn’t like: having to propose a list of what he likes and doesn’t like.
Upcoming events
MOUSSE – Scratch (en néerlandais)
Carcassonne (Fr)
Le ventre de la Baleine, Liège (Be)
La Batoude, Beauvais (Fr)
