The poetic search for the brief moment where the body and soul are in perfect balance: dance and music that attempt to escape the laws of physics.
Thu. 4.9.
Contributors
- Yoann Bourgeois Art Company
- Yoann Bourgeois performance, concept & choreography
- Marie Bourgeois performance & concept
- Marie Fonte choreography
- Olga Scheps piano
Programme
»The Unreachable Suspension Point«
Performance combining dance and circus, free fall and weightlessness
Featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, and Ludwig van Beethoven
18:45 Pre-concert talk (in German)
Description
Yoann Bourgeois’s poetic performances take us to a world somewhere between circus, theatre, and dance. His goal is to »disarm time«, to overcome gravity and centrifugal force – and to bring the forces, both external and internal, that tug at us all into a fragile equilibrium. On rotating surfaces, wobbling floors, and stairs leading to nowhere, he and his dance partner search for balance. Olga Scheps finds musical analogies on the piano.
Conception, set design and artistic direction: Yoann Bourgeois with assistance of Marie Bourgeois
Choreographic assistant and co-author: Marie Fonte
Performance: Yoann Bourgeois & Marie Bourgeois
Piano: Olga Scheps
Technical manager: Nicolas Anastassiou
Stage manager: Eric Prin & Gwilherm Bevan
Sound manager: Chloé Barbe
Light manager: Jérémie Cusenier
Design and construction: David Hanse, Nicolas Picot, Hervé Flandrin & Christophe Rayaume
Production: Yoann Bourgeois Art Company
Yoann Bourgeois Art Company is financed by the Ministère de la Culture – Direction Générale de la Création Artistique, the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and the Département de l’Isère.