MOI AUSSI !

THE SHOW

The acrobat is never more than a big child who continues to explore the full possibilities of his body, in direct contact with the material.

His playground : the stage. The starting toys are a Hula Hoop and a small trolley. Unstable situations are provoked through those objects in relation with bodies, and then, it becomes all about the fundamental question of acrobatic : alterity. Wiggling, pushing or supporting each other, he and she discover how “I” and “You” can be built together by confronting the world and each other.

Moi Aussi ! © Valérie FROSSARD

193 Soleil © Emma LEFRANCOIS

Intentions

” Like all small children, you were fascinated by movement. Your gaze carefully followed the people moving around you, then you took pleasure in pushing and throwing any object you could grab, and finally you learned to move yourself. You thus entered a world animated by a constant whirl of natural and artificial movements ” – Neil Ardley, Science Pratique

Every year, the Académie Fratellini, a french circus school, calls on an artist or company to create a show for young audiences. After Jeanne Mordoj (Cousumain), Florence Caillon (Le petit lac), Olivier Letellier (Bastien sans main), Sylvère Lamotte (La fabuleuse histoire de BasarKus)…, in 2023 the company Un loup pour l’Homme was asked to direct two artists at the end of their training. For 4 weeks, Špela VODEB and Alexandre FRAY led Lucie Otter and Daniel Kvašňovský, apprentice-artists in their final year (class of 2022-2024) through the production of a 30-minute show.

DISTRIBUTION

Artistic directions Špela Vodeb & Alexandre Fray
Circus artists Lucie Otter & Daniel Kvašňovský
Costumes Alexandra Langlois
Music Dalès / Joris Pesquer & Enguerran Wimez
Technical manager Maria Audejean / Charles Dubois / Rémi Athonady (in alternation)
Production, diffusion, administration – Lou Henry, Emma Lefrançois & Chloé Vancutsem

Production Un loup pour l’Homme & Académie Fratellini
With support of the Departement of Seine-Saint-Denis

EN TOURNÉE (2023 - ...)

+ de dates

Des Jours Heureux festival !

#DJH édition 2024 !!

September 23 to 29 at Hesdin (FR-62), in le parking de la salle du manège
September 30 to October 6 at Saint-Quentin (FR-02), sur le terrain de l’aventure

Des Jours Heureux is an itinerant circus festival, during which we install our living spaces for a week, in small towns in the Hauts-de-France region: we will set up our big top, organize workshops during the week and on weekend, organize performances of our shows and those of other artists, as well as concerts and lots of other surprises ! So come and try yourself on Cie De Snoep‘s acrobatic carousel, have a drink, a snack, a chat and share a piece of life with us!

ALL PROGRAMS !

#DJH - an itinerant festival in les Hauts-de-France

Des Jours Heureux is a tour, a series of meeting points between an artistic team and local residents. It means setting up in the heart of neighborhoods, small towns, rural or suburban areas, and reconnecting with all the convivial and extraordinary aspects of the arrival of a circus in a village square. It means going to people’s homes and sharing a piece of life with them, around a show, a workshop, an evening or a drink. Let the show be a pretext for encounters!

Des Jours Heureux means opening up a living, ephemeral space – a forum, a place for activities, meals and shows – around our big top. It means setting up for a week (or a little more) in a town that so wishes, and collaborating to propose a program that includes the installation of a circus space, shows, workshops, jam sessions, festive evenings… All in the greatest conviviality between residents, partners and the artistic team.

On the strength of our previous experience, we want to share the artistic creation of contemporary circus with populations who have few opportunities to attend big top theaters. We want to recreate partnerships between communities and companies.

After this first edition in 2024, we’d like to continue the experience every season, by establishing long-term links with certain municipalities, and develop a circus tour that can be shared with other companies.

DANS L’ESPACE

The project - Dans l'espace ('In the space')

Suddenly, something appears, weighs, turns, chases, covers. And you can’t avoid it. So you try to deal with it, forcing it, dodging, jumping, climbing. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. But we persevere. Relying on each other. Dealing with our surroundings.

At the heart of this world-top, 4 acrobats, between tension and mischief, find themselves in precarious situations in the face of a world in constant transformation. They have to choose between the temptation of control, the lure of play, or the humility of not taking on something stronger

A circus show full of risk and lightness, set in an immersive soundscape (with a rock vibe) that supports the hypnosis of the situation, performed live by 2 musicians who are both witnesses and accomplices. than they are.

Team and partners

Artistic direction : Alexandre Fray
Circus artists : Alexandre Fray, Špela Vodeb, Calou Rais, Antonin Wicky
Live musicians : Joris Pesquer et Enguerran Wimez / Dalès
Scenography : Miriam Kooyman
Outside eye : Paola Rizza
Outside ear : Matthias Penaud
Technic team : Rémi Athonady, Léo Debeugny
Light design : Bastiaan Schoof
Costumes : Nola van Timmeren
Advice for sound in the tent : Benoit Courribet, Fanny Thollot
Management and touring : Lou Henry, Emma Lefrançois and Chloé Vancutsem
Photography : Valérie Frossard
Press : Estelle Laurentin
Thanks to : Leon Börgens, Pablo Escobar, Caroline Cardoso, Pierre-Jean Faggiani, Laurent Mulowsky

Production : Un loup pour l’homme

Coproduction : La Faïencerie, Scène Conventionnée d’Intérêt National Art en Territoire, Théâtre de Creil (60), Cirque Jules Verne, Pôle National Cirque et Arts de la Rue, Amiens (80), Agora, Pôle National Cirque, Boulazac (24), Le Carré magique, pôle national des arts du cirque en Bretagne, Lannion (22), Théâtre Firmin Gémier / La Piscine, Pôle national cirque d’Antony, et ses donateurs (92), Tandem , Scène Nationale Arras-Douai (59-62), CCN2 – Centre Chorégraphique National, Grenoble (38), Theater Op de Markt, Dommelhof (BE), Transversales, scène conventionnée cirque, Verdun (55) – en partenariat avec Cirk’Eole Metz et le réseau GRAND CIEL, Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie (La Brèche Cherbourg (50) et Cirque-théâtre d’Elbeuf (76)), Le Bateau Feu, Scène Nationale de Dunkerque (FR–59), Pôle Régional Cirque Le Mans (72), Fabrik Potsdam (DE), Le Prato PNC Lille (59), Le Palc Pôle National Cirque Châlons en Champagne Grand Est (51).

Soutien : Conseil Régional Hauts-de-France, DGCA – Ministère de la Culture, DRAC Hauts-de-France (au titre de l’aide aux compagnies conventionnées). Un loup pour l’Homme est compagnie associée à la Faïencerie de Creil et au Prato à Lille, et sociétaire de Filage (coopérative d’accompagnement des acteur·rices artistiques et culturel·les, Lille).

All DATES IN THE AGENDA

+ de dates

PASSING SWIFTLY

The project

A few guitar notes, and two women come together in the middle of the audience.

They get closer, look at each other, embrace, climb, propel, and whirl. This proximity and the subtle presence of the musician create an intimate space in which the two acrobats gradually reveal the potential of their bodies, the trust and the complicity that nourish their relationship, their experiences.

Drawing from dance and circus arts, they take turns being bases and flyers, defying stereotypes to express a sensitive strength without artifice.

TEAM AND PARTNERS

Creation and performance : Špela Vodeb, Christine Daigle
Music by : Joris Pesquer (& Enguerran Wimez) / Dalès, performed by Enguerran Wimez
Performance design : Hristina Šormaz
Artistic advice : Alexandre Fray & Cathy Blisson
Production, administration : Lou Henry, Emma Lefrançois & Chloé Vancutsem

Production : Un loup pour l’Homme

Co-production : La Faïencerie, theater of Creil (France), Room 100, Split (Croatia), Cirkorama, Zagreb (Croatia)

Support : Association of Associated Circus Companies (ACCA) (Switzerland), Zirkus Quartier and Wagenvarieté Festival, Zurich (Switzerland), Akropoditi Dancefest, Syros (Greece), Združenje Muzofil (Slovenia), Municipality of Celje (Slovenia), Hiša kulture Celje (Slovenia), Zavod Celeia Celje (Slovenia), MCC Celjski mladinski center (Slovenia), Teatroskop – Southeast European Network for the Performing Arts / French Institute of Serbia (a program initiated by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, and the French Institute of Paris), Plaines d’été / a program of the DRAC Hauts-de-France.
Un loup pour l’Homme is supported by the DRAC Hauts-de-France, funded by the Hauts-de-France Regional Council, and associated with Le Prato – National Center for Circus Arts in Lille. The company is also a member of Filage, a cooperative that supports artistic and cultural actors.

ALL DATES IN THE AGENDA

+ de dates

Grand-mother project

Presentation

The « Grand-mother project » has started in 2006 with cultural actions. Little by little, it has grown to become an actual artistic production project.

« J’aurai toujours des rêves, maman » (I will always have dreams, mum) is a research project about the gesture of carrying and what it means with elderly people whom Alexandre Fray meets. Taking the time to meet, to relate to each other, to listen a lot, create an atmosphere favourable to confidence and connection, and therefore be able to evolve towards a common physical work later. It is out of the question to rush the relationship. It is about finding intimacy, imbued with a great delicacy. You cannot suddenly find yourself holding up a stranger, abandoning yourself in the arms of someone without this particular attention.

The idea is then to bring people in the world of hand to hand balancing, where intimacy and the relationship to the other prevail. Going as far as possible, gently, with each one, listening to their fears, to their desires… To see what can be weaved in these extraordinary moments, where you accept for the first time to be lifted off the ground. Be attentive to the emotion blossoming out of this work.

More info

Grand-mother project @ Valérie FROSSARD

Team and partners

Artistic direction : Alexandre Fray

Conception : Alexandre Fray, Miriam Kooyman & Cathy Blisson
by and with : Alexandre Fray (or André Rosenfeld Sznelwar) and 4 local’s grand-mother
Sound design and grandmother coaching : Cathy Blisson
Outside eye : Christophe Bergon
Image and music : Karim Zeriahen
Régie : Pierre-Jean Faggiani (en alternance avec Romain Antoine)
Production, diffusion, administration : Lou Henry, Emma Lefrançois, Chloé Vancutsem
Thanks to Caroline Cardoso

Production : Un loup pour l’Homme

Partners coproduction :

CYCLE 1 – Théâtre d’Arles – scène conventionnée pour les nouvelles écritures, Houdremont – scène conventionnée – La Courneuve (93), Le Manège Scène nationale de Reims, CG92/Théâtre Firmin Gémier La Piscine Antony, Le Sirque Pôle National des Arts du cirque de Nexon

CYCLE 2 – Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf, Pôle national des arts du cirque – Normandie (76), Lavrar o Mar, Aljezur (Portugal), Ay Roop Scène de territoire pour les arts de la piste (Rennes – 35)

All dates in the AGENDA

+ de dates

Workshops

As we like to say, if acrobatic carrying is at the heart of our work, it’s because we’re not soloists. It’s not the single individual that interests us so much as the relationships we develop with others. Our work is by nature oriented towards human encounters, and our project is obviously completed by an increased attention to transmission and sharing, with non-professionals as well as professionals from the circus and other fields, within colleges, EHPAD, social centers or circus schools.

We are enriched by these interactions with others, in all their diversity, and with the benevolence and respect of our colleagues.

Schedule

+ de dates