The question they ask themselves appears straightforward enough: What is a group? Whoever tries to answer will discover a series of new questions, far from easy to unravel. Like the question of a group’s strength, which somehow tends to be greater than the collective power of the individual members. Also: the more integrity and individual strength possessed by the members of a group, the more solid their united expression. Why is that? What happens when a person is sucked into a group? And why is it that as soon as you feel seriously at home in a gathering you feel the urge to run away from it?

Perhaps these questions are not just significant for acrobats, but are even relevant in some sense for our fragmented world. Individual initiatives can be both essential and mortally dangerous. No progress is possible without disturbing the balance of a group, but an individual whose challenge comes at the wrong moment can create a catastrophe for all concerned.

In any case, whoever thinks too long about these questions will surely reach a higher level of confusion. So we’re lucky that the twelve passionate trapeze artists in CirkVOST spend almost an hour personifying the problem for flabbergasted audiences.

CirkVOST is a French circus company specializing in colossal shows with challenging, difficult aerial acrobatics. Their goal is to fly high, to fill the empty space, to perform humanity’s eternal struggle to not let go.

Creation: CirkVOST, Benoit Belleville and Germain Guillemot
Performerers: Louise Aussibal, Benoit Belleville, Arnaud Cabochette, Célia Casagrande-Pouchet, Maximilien Delaire, Théo Dubray, Jérôme Hosenbux, Sébastien Lepine, Saphia Loizeau, Elena Mengoni, Elie, Rauzier and Elien Rodarel
Music: Sebastien Dal Palu and Simon Delescluse
Set design: CirkVOST and Patrick Clody
Sound: Sebastien Dal Palu and Adrien Meulien
Light: Simon Delescluse and Clément Huard

Supports, coproductions and help: Ministère de la culture DGCA, DRAC Occitanie, Région Occitanie, Département du Gard, Ville de La Grand Combe, Ville de Mende, Ville de Frontignan , Scènes Croisées de Lozère, scène conventionnée de Lozère, La Verrerie d’Alès, PNC Occitanie, Espace culturel La Berline / Les Lendemains, Champclauson, Théâtre Molière Sète, scène nationale archipel de Thau , Coopérative De Rue et De Cirque , AGORA BOULAZAC PNC Nouvelle Aquitaine.

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