She lives in a place with no exit doors, as if to leave this room was invariably to enter it. Vertiginous rise. Dive towards those who inhabit her dreamed everyday, as so many inner demons, so many images of her. Dive into the unknown, to better take flight. In a sleek and intriguing aesthetic, the Lapsus company presents its latest creation tinged with a captivating dreamlike quality. Like them. For the spectator, the magic happens! Young spectators, mature enough not to be frightened, can see this journey with its sometimes grating soundtrack, populated by dancing spectres and androgynous figures emerging from cupboards.
With humour often summoned, but also archetypal childish fears, omnipresent, which transport us. This distorted reality, absolutely fascinating, leaves us telling ourselves stories: daydreamers, to be seen! And this is how several moments follow one another where the imagination is fed with poetry, dreamlike and sophisticated sequences that highlight both the individual physical performance and the fluidity of certain collective choreographies of these circus artists who populate or haunt, as the case may be, the ramblings and other mental escapes of the sleeping beautyβ¦ a world where one is not surprised to see incredible kites flying in all directions, unicycles on the move, random juggling, athletic lifts, slender pyramids or perilous aerobaticsβ¦.
The images follow one another, with their share of aerial acrobatics, steps above the void and extended balancing acts. Unheard-of bounces on the surface of this random mirror. The circus arts infuse the piece, in a dimension never seen before, so new is the inclusive language of Lapsus. The Lapsus Company was founded in by six artists who met ten years earlier at the circus school in Lyon. After the creations of Six pieds sur terre in , of Boutelis in and the opening tableau of the 41st Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in , they have decided in to join forces with the novelist Pierre Ducrozet to create a triptych that aims to question our place in the living world, and our way of inhabiting the world, at the time of the anthropocene.
This triptych consists of a novel Le Grand vertige , Actes sud β August , a circus show Le Chant du vertige β December and a hybrid form mixing circus and literature Les Grands vertiges β September After more than performances in a dozen countries, the Lapsus company continues to create a sensitive, aesthetic and committed circus.
The successive shows inscribe over time an artistic identity that is the result of several commitments and choices: a refined aesthetic, powerful universes and the multidisciplinary nature of the creations, supported by a collective artistic direction. La Lanterne, Rambouillet Fr Lapsus [Fr]. Contact cecile lachouettediffusion. Journal du Jura - Antoine Leroy, January The company Lapsus [Fr]. By the same company. Upcoming dates.
