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Armour
Arno Ferrera & Gilles Polet
Acrobatic lifts
Dressed as wrestlers, three acrobats examine virility in the aim of offering new perspectives on the question.
Surrounding them in a circle, the audience watches as scenes of profound intimacy unfold in a tender, natural way that makes them entirely relatable.
In this body-to-body encounter, the performers touch, clutch, and carry each other. They use armor made from sports protective equipment, not to keep the other person at a distance, but, on the contrary, to make contact with them.
As they play with balancing and hand-to-hand acrobatics, they allow themselves to slip into relationships of seduction and redefined masculinity. The result is a representation of a love that is free and generous, universal and plural.
Distribution
Artistic direction: Arno Ferrera et Gilles Polet Technical concept: Pierre-Jean Pitou Faggiani Development: Anaïs Longiéras Authors/performers: Arno Ferrera, Gilles Polet, and Charlie Hession Dramaturgical support: Bauke Lievens Consultant for staging and choreography: Renée Corpraij Play consultant: Gaïa Saitta Acrobatics consultant: Frédéric Arsenault Light design: Anthony Merlaud Sound design: Raphaëlle Latini Costumes: Kasia Mielczarek Technical management: Pierre-Jean Pitou Faggiani Production – Distribution: Anaïs Longiéras Production: Steven Cayrasso
Acknowledgements
Production: Les Halles de Schaerbeek Coproduction: Le Bateau Feu national theater in Dunkirk (FR) / Culture commune national theater in Pas-De Calais (FR) / Central, La Louvière (BE) / Dommelhof, Neerpelt (BE) / La Maison de la Culture, Tournai (BE) / Le Sirque national circus center in Nexon (FR) / Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque in Normandy – La Brèche, Cherbourg (FR) / Viernulvier, Gand (BE) / Le Prato national circus center in Lille (FR) / Perspectives, Sarrebrück (DE) / Fonds Transfabrik, Franco-German live performance fund / Le Tandem national theater (FR) Further production support: La Coop and Shelter Prod with the support of taxshelter.be, ING, and the tax scheme of the Belgian government With the support of: laGeste (Les ballets C de la B + kabinet k), Gand (BE) / the Swiss Cultural Center in Paris (FR) / Pianofabriek, Brussels (BE) Armour was produced in partnership with L’Amicale
Biography
Arno Ferrera and Gilles Polet collaborated for the first time in 2021 on Cuir, a show for two performers that was created by the company Un loup pour l’homme to question notions of masculinity. With Armour, produced by the Les Halles de Schaerbeek cultural centre in Brussels, they explore this theme in greater depth, developing an acrobatic language based on notions of exhaustion.
Dates and times
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