COMPAGNIE 111: IJK

After the performance on 28th March Hungarian theatre director, Eszter Novák will talk to the members of CIE 111 and director Aurélien Bory. We kindly await everyone!

In the frame of the Circle Around programme Trafó and the French Institute of Budapest present: a unique, new, eye-popping spectacle in which juggling balls become instruments of sound. Sensational to see, amazing to hear. You will be astonished. Jugglers Aurelien Bory, Olivier Alenda, and Katja Wehrlin - who also plays accordeon-, are graduates of France's famous Lido Circus School. Their performing experience embraced work with Archaos, the World Circus Festival and Mladen Materic's Tattoo Theatre before setting up their own company in 1999.

IJK, the title shows i, j and k vectors of the three dimensions, in the space geometry. IJK, is a volume, the volume of the stage, the volume in which is going to appear a movement and the writing of the movement follows here a logic of juggling. Juggling of objects, where several volumes, parallelepipeds, are placed on the stage, and where the whole is conceived to be displaced, manipulated, as principal accessory of the actor. Its movement generates changes of space and makes us think of the Cubes Game of Oskar Schlemmer. Juggling of bodies, where the three actors, two boys and one girl like in The Triadic Ballet, are using cubes as support and base of their movements and invest the inside of these volumes for an acrobatic research in confined spaces. Juggling of balls finally, where the research is guided by the sound produced by balls when they bounce on and inside the cubes. This approach reveals the rhythmic and musical character of juggling. Here the acoustic volume is placed on the front. With the fabrication of a music, IJK is akin to the idea of musical spectacle dear to the Bauhaus feasts, and also the idea of the burlesque actor. The graphics of lights which resumes in flat and widely the volumes present on stage places IJK at the meeting point between these two poles: between abstract art and the humour of the absurd.

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Created by:
Olivier Alenda, Aurélien Bory, Christian Coumin, Stéphane Ley, Katja Wehrlin, Thierry Dussout
Scenery: Christian Coumin
Artistic collaboration: Thierry Dussout
Performed by:
Olivier Alenda, Aurélien Bory, Anne De Buck (originally Katja Wehrlin)
Light: Arno Veyrat
Sound: Stéphane Ley
Costumes: Sylvie Marcucci
Originally directed by: Christian Coumin

Conception: Aurélien Bory

Juggling research: Olivier Alenda, Aurélien Bory

Photographer: Aglaé Bory

Production: Florence Meurisse, Delphine Justumus

Coproduction:
Théâtre de la Digue/Toulouse, Espace Apollo/Mazamet, Résidence à l’Espace Apollo


With the support of:
Conseil Régional Midi-Pyrénées, Conseil Général de la Haute-Garonne et Studio de création du Lido/Centre des arts du cirque - Ville de Toulouse.
DRAC Midi-Pyrénées is CIE 111's permanent partner. The sponsor of CIE 111's projects is BNP Paribas.