Creation: March 29, 2023, in schools in the Hautepierre district, Strasbourg
Musicians: 1 percussionist and 1 juggler
Duration: 45 minutes
The encounter between juggling and music begins with deliberately stripped-down forms.
A ball rises and falls. It has its own time. A repeated note is grafted onto it. Then the movement of a mallet and that of a ball begin to form one body.
The characters’ bodies also begin to move. The head in particular. Putting together heads that turn and look is a vast choreographic and theatrical terrain. It’s the promise of a dance.
On a stage reminiscent of a circus ring, we oscillate between the detail of a choreography and the thick line of fairground eccentricities. The musical composition reveals a meticulous virtuosity within poor, bare structures. In these hybrid situations, where disciplines merge to create an unidentified aesthetic object, an automaton – programmed within the score itself – adds a little humanity to this court of miracles.