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La Bête noire

Compagnie L’Oublié(e) - Raphaëlle Boitel

Choreographed circus

Wed. 15 to Sun. 26 Jan.

25 minutes Ages 10 and up

To be nothing but a body, a dehumanized body. In this solo show, Raphaëlle Boitel engages in performative choreography. A metaphor for her past as a contortionist, the work tells the story of a woman acrobat whose work damages her body as it also brings her happiness.

Set against a magnificent backdrop of light and shadow, she sketches out the daily battles she wages against her bêtes noires.

Whether on the floor or on a circus apparatus that resembles a column with 24 vertebrae, she twists and contorts in a thousand different ways, appearing like a thread that is ready to snap at any moment.

Her performance is a genuine physical feat and a disturbing mirror of the suffering we sometimes inflict on ourselves.

Distribution

Stage direction and choreography: Raphaëlle Boitel
Artistic collaborator, lighting, set design: Tristan Baudoin
Associate director: Julien Couzy
Original music: Arthur Bison
Costumes: Sabine Schlemmer
Apparatus design: Monika Wespi / Ingo Groher
Stage Manager: Anthony Nicolas
Sound and light manager: Thomas Delot
Performer: Vassiliki Rossillion (resumption of role in 2024)
Administrator: Nicolas Rosset
Production Manager: Jérémy Grandi
Communication Manager: Léna Scamps

Acknowledgements

Coproduction: Agora national circus center for Boulazac Aquitaine – Le Carré Magique national circus center for Brittany in Lannion

Support for revival of show: DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Cie L’Oublié(e) – Raphaëlle Boitel is subsidized by the French Ministry of Culture, DRAC – Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Dordogne Department and the City of Boulazac Isle Manoire. Raphaëlle Boitel is an associate artist at the L’Agora national circus center and the Équinoxe national theater in Châteauroux.

Biography

Founded in 2012, the Compagnie L’Oublié(e) is led by director and choreographer Raphaëlle Boitel. The company has a distinctive approach to the contemporary circus, mixing the arts (theatre, circus, dance, music, film) and inventing new apparatuses for each new show. The result is a blend of tragedy and comedy that are conjured up in a metaphorical style

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