La Volte cirque
La Volte is a circus company that was created in 2018 by Matthieu Gary and Sidney Pin. In 2016, in collaboration with Collectif Porte27 they produced the show Chute! which has been touring since. Following that, the two associates moved to Nantes in order to investigate the art of acrobatics through the production of shows / lectures, performance art as well as the organisation of workshops, for non-professional audiences for example.
© Damien Bossis
It’s okay to make loads of physical experiences when you’re eight years old, taking a spill on your bike, doing a belly flop at the swimming pool, jumping from your neighbour’s roof. All this broadens one’s horizons and shapes one’s personality. But when twenty years later, you find yourself upside down on a piece of metal, balancing on your buddy’s shoulder seven meters above the ground, in front of 200 people who pay you to do it, you have your doubts.
De bonnes raisons features two acrobats philosophising joyfully about risk-taking.
Cast
Writers and performers: Matthieu Gary et Sidney Pin
Production: Elsa Lemoine – l’Avant Courrier
Touring management: Clémence Mugard – l’Avant Courrier
Technical manager: Etienne Charles and Julien Lefeuvre
Office management: Valeria Vukadin
Outside eye: Marc Vittecoq
Construction: Maxime Héraud et Etienne Charles
Lights: Etienne Charles
Costumes: Léa Gadbois Lamer
Special thank to: Fragan Ghelker, Pauline Dau, Fanny Sintès, Myrto Andrianakou, Alexandre
Guillot, Sarah Lys, l’association Pivoine, Julien Auger, Oriane Piquot, Amandine Bouche, Vasil Tasevski.
Partners & Co-producers
Production:
Compagnie la Volte-cirque, with l’Avant courrier
Co-productions:
Carré Magique, Pôle National Cirque de Bretagne, Lannion (22)
Le Grand R, Scène Nationale de la Roche-sur-Yon (85)
Onyx, Scène conventionnée, Saint-Herblain (44)
Cité du cirque pour le Pôle Régional Cirque, Le Mans (72)
Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie / La Brèche à Cherbourg (50) et le Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf (76)
Plus Petit Cirque du Monde, Bagneux (92)
Contributions:
DRAC Pays de la Loire
Région Pays de la Loire
Conseil Général de Loire Atlantique
Ville de Saint-Herblain
Ville de Nantes
Supports:
Services Territoriaux Éducatifs et d’Insertion, Rezé (44)
Maison de quartier Madeleine Champs de Mars, Nantes (44)
Quai des Chaps, Nantes (44)
Ville d’Indre (44)
Ville de Couëron (44)
Artémisia, La Gacilly (56)
La Martofacture, Sixt-sur-Aff (35)
MC2, Scène Nationale, Grenoble (38)
Le Monfort Théâtre, Paris (75)
L’Essieu du Batut, Murols (12)
L’espace Senghor en partenariat avec le festival Les Débroussailleuses & le Cirque du Docteur Paradi, le May-sur-Èvre (49)
Festival SITU, Veules-les-Roses (76)
Cirque en Scène, Centre des arts du cirque de Niort (79)
Basic facts
January 2022
Indoor, Circular tribune (toured) surface area required 12x12m. Minimum height 7m, 170 people
60 min – From 8 years on
YOUR CONTACT :
Clémence Mugard
clemence[@]avantcourrier.fr
+33 6 15 40 04 82