All audience from 6 years old performance
Composition and direction: Denis Fargeton
Performers: Hsin-Hsuan Wu (percussions) and Denis Fargeton (juggling)
Outside view: Minh-Tâm Nguyen
Lighting designer and stage manager: Claude Mathia
Duration: 45 minutes
Production: Les Percussions de Strasbourg
Creation: 29-30-31/03/2023, Hautepierre schools, Strasbourg (FR)
The encounter between juggling and music is first made through the use of deliberately simple 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 and the one of a ball begin to form one body.
The character’s bodys also start to move. Especially the head. The arrangement of heads that turn and look is a vast choreographic and theatrical terrain. It is the promise of a dance.
On a stage reminiscent of a circus ring, we oscillate between the detail of a precise writing and the thick line of fairground eccentricities. The musical composition allows a thorough virtuosity to emerge within poor, bare structures.
In these hybrid situations where disciplines merge to create an unidentified aesthetic object, an automaton -programmed within the score itself- fills out this court of miracles with a little humanity.
This show is supported by the Collectivité Européenne d’Alsace.
Next performances :
15 December 2023 — Salle Grassegert, Wittelsheim, FR
16 December 2023 — Espace Rhénan, Kembs, FR
17 December 2023 — Cinéma Le Cercle, Orbey, FR
27 November 2024 — Art’Rhéna, Vogelgrun, FR
28 January 2025— Conservatoire de Caen auditorium Jean Pierre Dautel, FR
29 January 2025 — Théâtre du Champ Exquis, Blainville-sur-Orne, FR
27 February 2025 — Salle polyvalente, Wolfisheim, FR
28 February 2025 — Gerstheim, FR
