Since 2002, circusnext has been involved in the emergence of innovative and unique artists. In 20 years, more than 100 companies and 1000 artists of 30 nationalities have been accompanied by circusnext. To celebrate this great journey and to look forward to the future and the opening of the Ferme Montsouris (Paris), circusnext is putting together its “20 Years” Season.
Part 1 – Spring off-site
This first part of the season features former circusnext supported artists at our partners’ venues or in public spaces (more dates to come):
• 31.05 – Barks Company/Bastien Dausse – MOON, cabinet de curiosités lunaires – Sainte Anne hospital, Paris (FREE)
Moon is a show imagined as a living and acrobatic exhibition. Like a cabinet of curiosities, Moon has been conceived as an accumulation of surprising antigravity devices, around which are imagined small forms of about ten minutes each. The public is invited to wander from one installation to another, like a guided tour in a museum.
All info & free registration here.
• 07/07 – 1 show, 1 workshop with Lucie Lastella – Place Marthe Simard, Paris (FREE)
2pm – Sélénite – Lucie Lastella (Cers company)
A poetic Cyr wheel solo about the metamorphoses of the Moon. A Cyr wheel, a wolf-woman, paper masks and veils in the diffuse softness of the star for a lunar story.
Duration : 25 min
Public : All public from 3 years old
2:45pm – Circus workshop – animated by Lucie Lastella & an acrobat
Get in touch with a circus discipline through sensations: after a collective warm-up, come and make your Cyr wheel initiation or participate in acrobatic games.
Duration: 1h30
Public: From 1m50 for the Cyr wheel initiation – 15 people maximum / All ages and all sizes for the acrobatic games – 15 people maximum
• 09/07 – 1 show, 1 workshop with Lucie Lastella – Boulard Elementary school, Paris (FREE)
2pm – Sélénite – Lucie Lastella (Cers company)
A poetic Cyr wheel solo about the metamorphoses of the Moon. A Cyr wheel, a wolf-woman, paper masks and veils in the diffuse softness of the star for a lunar story.
Duration : 25 min
Public : All public from 3 years old
2:45pm – Circus workshop – animated by Lucie Lastella & an acrobat
Get in touch with a circus discipline through sensations: after a collective warm-up, come and make your Cyr wheel initiation or participate in acrobatic games.
Duration: 1h30
Public: From 1m50 for the Cyr wheel initiation – 15 people maximum / All ages and all sizes for the acrobatic games – 15 people maximum
Where ? 46 rue Boulard, 75014 Paris
Past events:
• 26.03 – Defracto Company – Croûte, Petite Ceinture of 14th district, Paris
The Defracto Company (laureates 2009-2010) will perform its creation Croûte in situ on the Petite Ceinture at 124 avenue du Général Leclerc. A 30-minute juggling performance that adapts to its environment, Croûte is the fruit of a decade of research into expressive juggling and physical humour.
• 05&06.04 – Julian Vogel – Masterclass restitution, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
With the students of the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris and the Fratellini Academy, 2020-2021 laureate Julian Vogel presents a masterclass restitution articulated around the artistic approach he develops for the creation of his China Series project. The focus is on working with objects and exploring the links between visual arts and circus, particularly in terms of temporal and spatial experience, forms of presentation, performance and installation/exhibition.
• 09&10.04 – Defracto Company – Croûte, La Rencontre des Jonglages, La Courneuve
For the Rencontre des Jonglages 2022, Maison des Jonglages is partnering with circusnext to program Croûte on the Place de la Fraternité, in La Courneuve. This performance of a new unique variation of Croûte confirms a long-standing relationship with the Maison des Jonglages.
Free access. More information soon.
• 14&15.05 – Alexander Vantournhout – Screws, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel
As part of the Circus Week-End at La Ferme du Buisson, Alexander Vantournhout (laureate 2013-2014) will perform one of his most recent creations, Screws. Five dancer-acrobats guide you along a path of micro-performances that echo each other: solos, duets or sharp collective choreographies. The performers take the audience out of their comfortable sitting position and set them in motion – literally. Let yourself be carried away and choose the angle from which you want to see each of the mini-compositions.
• 20.05 – 20 Years Day, Théâtre de la Cité internationale, Paris
European laureates and partners of circusnext gather at the Théâtre de la Cité internationale for a day marked by several highlights.
Think Circus! European conference (FREE). Artists, researchers and professionals of contemporary circus will meet for a dialogue on diversity, aesthetic norms that need to evolve and the new challenges faced by the contemporary circus. The conference will last all day and will be open to the public.
All info and free registration
Alexander Vantournhout – Through the Grapevine. The 2009-2010 laureate performs a duet with Axel Guérin. The two artists take us on a journey through an offbeat performance revisiting the classic pas de deux. With concentration, effort and humour, they play on their differences in morphology and strength. They help each other and challenge each other to discover their strengths and weaknesses, in an agile fluctuation between the one who leads and the one who is led.
Information & reservation here.
Camille Boitel – Fissure. Laureate of the very first promotion in 2001-2002 with his company L’immédiat, Camille Boitel has created a piece based on the figure of the clown. In this tragi-comic one-man show, the clown’s obsession with security systematically transforms the safety objects that populate the stage into sources of danger. King of digression and debacle, nothing stops him. Not even his funny deaths, which tirelessly punctuate the uninterrupted ballet of his mistakes.
Information & reservation here.
New events will be added to the “20 Years” Season program and will be announced soon!
