Tickets

Fora

Compagnie AR – Alice Rende

Contortion

Wed. 22 Jan. Fri. 24 Jan. Fri. 31 Jan. & Tue. 4 Feb.

Different locations

50 minutes Ages 15 and up

Contorting herself in the tightest of spots. Struggling, then escaping. In this solo performance, Alice Rende harnesses her incredible flexibility to excel in two disciplines: enterology (the art of fitting one’s body into unusual or very small spaces) and escapology (the art of escape).

The artist appears imprisoned in a Plexiglas box. Tirelessly, she climbs up and down, crushing her body up against the transparent surface. Once she emerges, she is torn between the fear of discovering herself to be monstrous and the surprise of being transformed. Yet, nonetheless, she continues to defy these walls. In this performance, that word embodies the quest for freedom.

Distribution

Original idea and performance: Alice Rende Light design: Gautier Devoucoux Sound design: Thomas Baudriller

Acknowledgements

Support: Circus Next project laureat – European Circus Label, SACD Processus Cirque support, DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine Co-production: La Grainerie in Toulouse (FR), Les Subsistances in Lyon (FR), Espace Périphérique in Paris (FR), Archaos national circus center in Marseille (FR), Le Lieu in Périgueux (FR), École Nationale de Cirque in Châtellerault (FR) Residencies: La Cascade national circus center in Rhône-Alpes (FR), La Central del Circ Fàbric de Creació in Barcelona (ES), Cirkorama in Zagreb (CR), Up in Brussels (BE)

Biography

Through her company Ar, which has been based in Aix-en-Provence since 2022, Alice Rende works on contortion as a sensory act that is capable of questioning and transforming the constraints people are subjected to and how these constraints manifest themselves in our bodies.