Ether
Creation 2021
4th International Circus Arts Biennial
Duration 1h
Circus and dance – aerial duo
All audiences from 8 years old
Show for the room
Two planets between heaven and Earth. In a lunar landscape, the two entities face each other, one seeming to be the mirror of the other. Two beings explore the range of possible relationships, alternately allies, enemies, sisters or strangers. Crossing all the emotions emanating from the forced sharing of a territory, they transform space, or space transforms them. Sometimes in fusion, sometimes in hindrance, these women echo our fears and our mutual attractions. The Other experienced as a myth, or conversely as a natural fact, to be apprehended with peaceful simplicity. A fascinating paradox that we are all constantly confronted with.
The company is starting a new cycle around human relationships. The first part, Ether, explores relational mechanisms, plunging two individuals into a closed room where the act of "entering into a relationship" becomes a game with multiple physical, emotional and spatial forms.
If Fractales studied the adversity of a group facing the elements, with Ether it is a question of studying in depth the in-betweens governing the forced sharing of a territory. An eminently topical question: between confronting, supporting, keeping one's distance, merging. What are the choices available to us?
"The rope vibrates, the rope propels, the rope holds. It serves as a bond that imprisons, that alienates. It gives death by hanging, but it is, in other circumstances, the rope that saves, like the rope of mountaineers."
Normand, Henry, Dictionary of universal symbols, Dervy, Paris 2007, Volume 2.
Distribution
Writing Choreography Fanny Soriano
Performers Pauline Barboux and Gaëlle Estève (role created by Jeanne Ragu)
Scenography Oriane Bajard and Fanny Soriano
Light Cyril Leclerc
Music Gregory Cosenza
Costumes Sandrine Rozier
Choreographic collaboration Mathilde Monfreux and Cendrine Gallezot
Machinery design Arnaud Sauvage
General management Vincent Van Tilbeurgh
Lighting and sound director Olivier Schwal
© Drawing: Oriane Bajard / © Photos: Gaël Delaite
Partners
Production Cie Libertivore
Co-productions Theatres in Dracénie National Interest Conventioned Stage Art and Creation - Dance - Draguignan / Performing Arts Center - Friche de la Belle de Mai - Marseille / Houdremont Cultural Center - La Courneuve / Archaos - National Circus Center - Marseille / Châtillon Theater / Le Cratère, National Stage of Alès / La Verrerie - National Circus Center Occitanie - Alès / Jules Verne Circus, National Circus and Street Arts Center Amiens / LE PÔLE - National Interest Conventioned Stage - The Mediterranean Circus Season
DRAC PACA Support / National aid for circus creation from the DGCA / Aid for the operation of the South Region / Aid for the operation of the City of Marseille and the Departmental Council of Bouches-du-Rhône / Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis
Thanks Julie Bordenave, Hélène Hirsinger, Olivier Jambrich, Anne Morata, Bastien Pelenc, François Merchie, Matthias Tempette, Eric André
Fanny Soriano is an artist associated with the Théâtres en Dracénie National Interest Conventioned Scene Art and Creation - Dance - Draguignan.