In Difference
Jef and Marica find themselves constrained by their differences, their ways of thinking and seeing the world. Their partnership seems unable to find common ground. Too different to align, too connected to ignore each other. At the centre of this duo is an iron wheel, both a dividing line and a meeting point. It is a place of exchange and transformation. Through it, they learn to communicate, fall together, get back up and start again. Their bodies seek a language without grammar, giving life to an intense physical dialogue, both metaphorical and abstract, where the encounter between differences becomes their creative force. What does it mean to be two without merging? Can we coexist without compromise, without fusion, without hierarchy? In Difference does not offer an answer. It performs it.
In Difference is a circus show, designed for two artists and two metal hoops, performed by Jef and Marica.
Jef is pacifist and indecisive, Marica is convinced and confrontational; using their very distinct bodies and personalities, they explore the advantages and difficulties of thinking in antithesis to construct a physical journey within the apparatus that unites them: the Cyr wheel.
They find their meeting point in the wheel, a third entity in the show that allows them to connect through physical and performative language.
Their contrasting approaches to the apparatus, one based on balance, the other on falling, enable them to develop a hybrid physical repertoire around the wheel, combining acrobatic movements and juggling.
Between confrontation and complicity, they offer a constant transformation of the apparatus that highlights the sincerity of the circus. ‘In difference’ is a journey towards a gradual break with the traditional uses of the wheel, going so far as to bring it to life.