Lemniscate

Release : June 2023

A choreographic exploration of the relationship between time and space, using an experimental, evolving sculptural device.

This vertiginous show features two dancers and an acrobat, inhabiting a unique and odd space that they’ll have fun exploring… This new world offers an ideal, kaleidoscopic playground. Balanced choreography is followed by rebounds, falls, suspensions and other light-hearted artistic outbursts.

When this world comes to life, perspectives multiply, the metronome mast beats the time and everything accelerates!

A choreographic exploration with many twists and turns, Lemniscate invites everyone to built an imaginary. It’s the poetic framework of a story with countless possibilities.

Original Idea and Set Design : Maureen Brown
Director and adaptation : Maryka Hassi
Assistant Director : Benjamin Lissardy
Composer : Yanier Hechavarria
Stage manager, lights and direction : Simon Drouart
Lighting design : Louise Nauthonnier
Acrobat : Benjamin Lissardy
Dancers : Nicolas Sannier and Amélie Jousseaume
Design and construction of the structure : Sud Side Marseille
Embedded system : Akwariom
Force calculations : Alain Dressard

Disciplines :
Acrobatics, movements, metronomic pendular Chinese pole nested in an infinite figure eight.

Year of creation : 2023
Format : medium format
Duration : 50 min
Spaces : outdoor
Dates : June 2023 production
Accessibility : all audiences

Technical conditions :
3 artists (or 4 if live musician perform), audience in 360°. All conditions to come.

Book : Clic here

Partners :
OARA, Ville de Bordeaux, L’Agora – Pôle National Cirque Boulazac, Le Fourneau – CNAREP en Bretagne, l’IDDAC – Agence Culturelle du Département de la Gironde, Scène nationale Carré-Colonnes, Scène Nationale du Sud-Aquitain, Scène conventionnée Pôle du Marsan, CRABB de Biscarrosse, L’Azimut – Antony – Châtenay-Malabry – Pôle National Cirque en Ile-de-France, CREAC – La citéCirque de Bègles, Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, DRAC et Atlantes.

The company is subsidized by the french Ministry of Culture – DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Département de la Gironde, Ville de Bordeaux et Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

Transport : 
Impressive in its size and the number of technical possibilities it offers, the Lemniscate set has been designed by the company to be light and easy to assemble and disassemble. From the very start of any creation, we work meticulously to design sculptural objects that are as aesthetically surprising as they are technically agile. For example, Lemniscate’s scenography is transported by a simple van and a small trailer. It’s an efficient way for the company to limit its impact on the environment, and to be able to perform in a wide variety of spaces in an eco-responsible way.

Transport Lemniscate . Cie Bivouac