SATURDAY 6 JUNE
7:00 PM – Big Hall, Pogon Jedinstvo
UN LOUP POUR L’HOMME (FR): GRAND-MOTHER PROJECT
Performance
Recommended age: All ages
Duration: approx. 60 min
GRAND-MOTHER PROJECT
or “Mum, I Will Always Have Dreams”
You do not simply surrender yourself into the arms of a stranger. It takes time, a gentle search for intimacy, and special care.
Alexandre Fray and André Rosenfeld Sznelwar, acrobatic porters, take turns meeting women of grandmotherly age. Together with these older women, who have never or only rarely been carried, the acrobats question the very essence of a discipline whose pursuit of virtuosity often leaves the most important things in the shadows. In each performance, they invite four to five new women, aged between three and four times twenty, into fragile aerial duets, exploring relationships of trust and dependence while persistently pushing the limits of the body’s possibilities.
This performance is an ode to surrendering to the unknown — to those extraordinary moments in which women old enough to be grandmothers agree, for the first time, to be lifted from the ground.
Artistic Direction: Alexandre Fray
Concept: Alexandre Fray, Miriam Kooyman, Cathy Blisson
Performed by: Alexandre Fray or André Rosenfeld Sznelwar with 4 to 5 local grandmothers
Sound Design and Work with Grandmothers: Cathy Blisson
Outside Eye and Spatial Design: Christophe Bergon
Video and Music: Karim Zeriahen
Technical Direction: Pierre-Jean Faggiani (or Romain Antoine)
Production, Distribution and Administration: Lou Henry, Emma Lefrançois, Chloé Vancutsem
Public Relations: Estelle Laurentin
Special Thanks: Caroline Cardoso
Production: Un loup pour l’Homme
Co-production: Le Manège, National Stage of Reims (FR-51); Centre Culturel Jean Houdremont, La Courneuve (FR-93); Théâtre d’Arles, a venue dedicated to art and the creation of new theatrical forms (FR-13); Cirque Théâtre d’Elbeuf, National Circus Centre of Normandy (FR-76); Ay Roop, regional venue for circus arts, Rennes (FR-35).
Support:Lavrar o Mar – COSANOSTRA, Aljezur (PT); Festival de La Cité, Lausanne (CH); La Faïencerie de Creil (FR-60).
