|
Press reviews for La Grand C
(translated from French)
“The acrobats take flight, playing of weightlessness with a cat grace. Delicate cats who make and unmake their patience with chimeric geometries.”
Telerama
“Fluidity is at the appointment, without giving anything in to the virtuosity of performances. An hour of enchanting flying in total weightlessness.”
France 3 Limousin Poitou Charentes, Midi Pile
“The bodies vibrate in unison and re-imagine a state of being all close by emotion.”
La Terrasse
“The relationship between humans, risk taking, the boundaries become essential issues. Le Grand C is great moments of acrobatics and acrobatic hand to hand which may breathtaking of spectators.”
Paris Normandie
“Human pyramids, the emotion is the main way of this show where 17 artists develop in music.”
Le Parisien
“A show was breathtaking. A ballet acrobatic uncommon and all in color.”
Journal d’Elbeuf
The company presents a stunning spectacle. 17 acrobats, 36 hands, 180 fingers, has a proven and perfectly controlled, intertwine. They are transforming the principle of male / female duo acrobatic.
Midi Loisirs |
|
Le Grand C
Compagnie XY
Experience this quintessentially French circus spectacle of 17 nimble young performers creating a 360 degree alternative universe of acrobatics, dance, music and human pyramids. With a mass of finely honed, agile bodies, they surge, they merge, and they whip up a physical frenzy to form a breathtaking journey through the air and on the ground. Through sharp observation and original interpretation, they lay bare the rituals of any day anywhere in the world, from a city skyline, to a rugby scrum to an elegant pirouette in flight. Compagnie XY have created a humorous show with an edge, for an audience of all ages who like a spectacle with risk and daring.
Click here to buy tickets
Roundhouse 17 - 24 April 2010, with Press night on 19 April
Performers:
Abdeliazide Senhadji
Airelle Caen
Anne De Buck
Antoine Thirion
Aurore Liotard
Caroline Le Roy
Denis Dulon
Emilie Plouzennec
Eve Bigel
Federico Placco
Guillaume Sendron
Maxim Pervakov
Michaël Pallandre
Mikis Minier-Matsakis
Romain Guimard
Thibaut Berthias
Tomàs Cardus
Music Creation: Marc Perrone
Light Creation: Vincent Millet
Designer: Marie-Cécile Viault
Assistant designer: Géraldine Guilbaud
Acrobatic help: Mahmoud Louertani
Creative support/Outside eye: Loïc Touzé
Co-produced by: le Cirque théâtre d’Elbeuf (centre des arts du cirque de Haute-Normandie), La brèche (Centre des arts du cirque de Basse-Normandie), La Verrerie (Pôle National des arts du Cirque languedoc-Roussillon), La Comédie de Béthune, Circuits- Scène conventionnée Auch, Maison de la culture de Tournai, Ecole de cirque de Lomme.
The Grand C has been supported by the Ministère de la Culture (DMDTS, DRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais), Le Conseil Régional Nord-Pas-de-Calais, l’Adami. |
|
|
