New Circus

Cie O Ultimo Momento: "(Peut-être)"
Contemporary Circus

When: June 14th & 15th – 8:00pm
Where: Aksra Theatre / King Power Duty Free
BTS Victory Monument
Tickets: 1200 / 800 Baht
Student Price: 100 Baht
Booking: ThaiTicketMajor.com (or at the door)

Cie O Ultimo Momento: "(Peut-être)"

Show written and performed by: Joao Paulo P; Dos Santos and Guillaume Dutrieux
Duration: 45 minutes

The audience of "La Fête" knows and appreciates the new French circus. The genre is for any type of public par excellence, this form of contemporary circus made its way to "La Fête" in 2004. After the "La Syncope du 7" from the Cie AOC, "Le Plan B" from the Cie 111, "Interieur nuit" from the Cie W and Cie 9.81 last year, "La Fête" introduced Thai public the Cie O ultimo Momento, performing a combination of acrobatic breath-taking show, acid-jazz and video, entitled ("Peut-être")

"(Peut-être)"

"(Peut-être)" is a duet between Joäo, a Chinese mast-hanging acrobatic entertainer and Guillaume, a French musician. In "( Peut-être)", the areas will be explored by the two artists who will challenge their limitations: play areas for the two protagonists, the top and the bottom, the horizontal and the vertical, the visual space and the space of sound, the real and the virtual, the time zone, are juxtaposed and melted into one. Acoustic music or electronic? Real bodies or virtual ones? Video and electronics blur perceptions of the gravity inversion, multiplication of interpreters though picture and sound. Between the instant (the last one?) and the duration stands the feat and the endangerment, always there, but never claimed.

New Circus

Bearing a certain attachment to the technical rigueur of the traditional circus, the new circus has freed itself from a certain number of conventions such as the succession of shows, the presence of trained animals, and search for feats at any rate or even the lifestyle. The new circus performances are performed more in theatres than in the marquee and some artists perfectionate a single technique: juggling, trapeze, acrobatics or Chinese Mast for example. The new circus performances are not solely directed to children but to adults also, thanks to the intervention of directors or choreographers who have brought meaning and playwriting into it (namely Joseph Nadj). The best known French companies at the origin of the new circus are the Cirque Plume, the Cirque Baroque, Archaos, The Que Circus and Gosh. But over the past decade, Les Arts Sauts, The Johann Guillern, James Thierrés, the Cie 111, Cahin Caha, les Nouveaux Nez, the Cie Anomalie and many more (over 600 troups in France!) present their performances on the major international stages.