TOUT VA HYPER BIEN
A collective exploration of harmony in chaos
The big top opens, revealing the murmurs of the first questions.
When does it start? Has it already started? Do you want a beer? The bar is open.
Shall we sit at a table or head up to the balconies?
Electric blue or velvet red — why choose? Let’s invent eclectic blu-red. The tone is set.
P.S.: yes, it has started.
But careful…
Tonight is not a show.
Tonight is merely the budding daydream of a group of individuals. Tonight is not a performance but a research process on collective creation — a becoming, a dream of what artists, spectators, parents, children, individuals and multitudes can experience together.
You will see! Or… you will do. In fact, you will do what you are about to see.
The Audience Area
What we want to create is a space where the audience contributes and takes responsibility for their engagement with the artists.
To do this, we draw on the concept of “Porous Dramaturgy” as presented by Cathy Turner, particularly in these terms:
“A work that engages the audience in co-creation through its underlying concepts and formal structures, notably interactivity, immersion, and site specificity.”
This is our methodology for exploring the plurality of this creation.
This approach allows the audience the possibility of becoming co-creators of the work. The artists’ task is to constantly question the guiding lines of the dramaturgy, shifting the dynamics between artist and audience.
To foster this participatory dynamic, we aim to engage with local actors and integrate them into the performance.
Brass bands, actors, musicians, passersby — we plan long-term, meaningful interventions in the community that allow us to include residents.
This intention will be expressed through diverse forms, opening up the possibilities of a performance with variable geometry: offering on-stage choirs, acts with amateurs, participants with disabilities, etc., depending on what is possible with local associations.
These interventions will be organized in advance through collective work with our partners to prepare our arrival in a community.
There is everything to be built…
© Heroen Bollaert / © Gwenole Le Gal / © Romaric du Champ
Distribution
Artistic Direction:
Simon Bruyninckx, Juliette Correa, Lola Devault-Sierra, Nickolas Van Corven, Vincent Bruyninckx
Artistic Team:
Luke Horley – Frame carrier, dance, singing
Pauline Hachette – Flying trapeze, Chinese pole, aerial frame
Mél Roguier – Frame carrier and Icarian games
Wiennen Silveira – Bassist, singer
Ludwig Papillon – Drummer
Simon Bruyninckx – Steel jaw, seesaw, and lifts
Juliette Correa – Trapeze artist, singer
Lola Devault-Sierra – Aerialist, frame, and Icarian games
Nickolas Van Corven – Keyboard, saxophone
Vincent Bruyninckx – Steel jaw and Cyr wheel
Musical Creation:
Nickolas Van Corven
Sound Design:
Stéphane Mara
Lighting Design:
Olivier Duris
Costume Design:
Solenne Capmas
Final Text:
“Toute douce liste” from
Tartines, Ellia Sulem
Technical Team (on tour):
Stéphane Mara – Sound technician
Olivier Duris – Lighting technician
Benjamin Eugène – Stage manager
Gert De Cooman – Tent technician
Technical Team (creation):
Nicolas Legendre – Technical direction and scenographic design
Maxime Heraud – Construction and scenography
External Eye / Choreography:
Bram Dobbelaere
Esse Vanderbruggen (choreography)
Production and Administration:
Collectif Malunés – Déborah Boëno and Ellia Larès
Partners
PERPLX, Kortrijk – Be
Circuswerkplaats Dommelhof – Be
Theater van Kortrijk – Be
Miramiro, Gent – Be
Équinoxe, Scène nationale de Châteauroux – Fr
Cirklabo, Leuven – Be
Le Palc Pôle National Cirque, Châlons-en-Champagne – Fr
Zomer Van Antwerpen – Be
L’Azimut, Nationaal Circuscentrum IDF, Antony – Fr
Agora, Nationaal Circuscentrum Boulazac – Fr
OARA, artistiek bureau van de regio Nouvelle-Aquitaine – Fr
Hallen van Schaarbeek – Be
Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie / La Brèche à Cherbourg en le Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf – Fr
Archaos, Nationaal circus van Marseille – Fr
Taxshelter, Perpodium – Be