Author and performer: Pauline Dau
Insight: Jean-Battiste Couton
Lighting design: Roland Catella
Office management: l’Avant Courrier – Louise-Michèle You, Emmanuelle Nonet
Production and touring managment: l’Avant Courrier – Elsa Lemoine, Nolwenn Manac’h

Co-production: Cirk’Eol ( Montigny-lès-Metz)
Supports: La Région Pays de la Loire, La Grainerie (Toulouse), Archaos – Pôle National Cirque Méditerranée (Marseille), Daki Ling, Le jardin des Muses (Marseille), La Faïencerie (Creil), Le Cheptel Aleikoum et l’Echalier (Saint-Agil), l’Atelier du plateau (Paris).

September 2017

Proscenium stage – Indoor (theatres or other venues which are not specifically dedicated), 20 to 250 people – close proximity of the audience with playing area
50 min – From 5 years on

Acrobatics, hula-hoop, singing, speaking.

Director: Sanja Kosonen

Performers: Nedjma Benchaib Le Coeur, Jeremie Bruyere, Muriel Carpentier, Sanja Kosonen , Sampo Kurppa,, Inka Pehkonen, Olli Vuorinen

 Light: Julien Poupon

Lighting manager: Julien Poupon or Lila Burdet

Music: Sami Tammela

Sound manager: Geoffrey Daguet

Video: Muriel Carpentier.

Costume design: Mickaël Lecoq

Set design: Sanja Kosonen, Muriel Carpentier

Assistant director: Marylou Thomas

Artistic advisor: Minja Mertanen

Building and design: Jeremie Bruyere, Muriel Carpentier, Alice Carpentier, Michel Carpentier

Production, touring and office management: L’Avant Courrier / Nolwenn Manac’h, Louise-Michèle You and Emmanuelle Nonet

Co-production: Le Prato- Théâtre International de Quartier, Pole National des Arts du Cirque- Lille; La Plateforme 2 Poles Cirque en normandie –La Brèche à Cherbourg et Cirque Théâtre d’Elbeuf; CCN2 Grenoble – Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble – Direction Yoann Bourgeois / Rachid Ouramdane; Le Carré magique -Pole national des arts du cirque en Bretagne; La Verrerie – Pole National Cirque Occitanie; Onyx-Théâtre de Saint Herblain.

 In-residencies: Cirko – Center for New Circus – Helsinki Finland; Ay Roop – Laboratoire permanent pour les arts du cirque; La Grainerie Fabrique des arts du cirque et de l’itinérance; La Cité du Cirque for Pole Régional Cirque Le Mans in partnership with La Fonderie  / Le théâtre du Radeau; Le Monfort théâtre; le théâtre du peuple-Pierre Bénite, Chepteil Aleilkoum

Supports: French Government – Direction régionale des affaires culturelles (DRAC) des pays de la Loire et Direction Générale de la Création Artistique (DGCA), Département of Loire Atlantique, Région of Pays de la Loire, Finnish cultural fondation (Suomen Kulttuurirahasto), Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taiteen edistämiskeskus), SACD – Bourse Beaumarchais.

March 2021
in la Brèche Pole National Cirque de Normandie, in collaboration with Le Trident, Scène nationale de Cherbourg-en-Cotentin.

Proscenium stage Indoor, Up to 600 personnes
70 minutes – From 10 years on

Circus, visual art

«Arising from a desire to write about the expression of emotions, Sanja Kosonen’s creation is a bewitching performance which peculiar atmosphere is revealed through fragmented tableaux blending song, dance and circus arts harmoniously. (…) This is a piece of authentic contemporary writing. Indeed, instead of showing acts one after the other or displaying a mere narrative dramaturgy, the performance consists in a tiling of scenes that stand out against a background of darkness, as in a dream which surrealistic episodes only make sense on an intimate and symbolic level.» – Mathieu Dochtermann, La Terrasse, September 2021

Writers and performers: Matthieu Gary and Sidney Pin

Artistic insight: Marc Vittecoq

Lighting design: Clément Bonin

Office Management: Valéria Vukadin

Production: Porte 27

Touring Management: Clémence Mugard – L’Avant Courrier

Acknowledgements: Thomas Laigle, Pauline Dau, Lawrence Williams, Fanny Sintès, Suzanne Sebö and Marion Collé

Production Porte27

Co-producers: Le Théâtre de la Madeleine – Scène conventionnée de Troyes, l’Espace Périphérique (Mairie de Paris – Parc de la Villette)

 Support: Le Nouveau Relax – Scène conventionnée de Chaumont, Balthazar – Centre des arts du cirque de Montpellier, Le Manège de Reims – Scène nationale, Le Monfort – Paris, Cirque en Scène – Centre des arts du cirque de Niort, L’Echalier -Agence rurale de développement culturel de Saint Agil, Cirk’Eole – Montigny les Metz

March 2016

Tribune seating on four sides, 170 people
52 min – from 8 years on

Ground acrobatics, Acro balancing.

Writer, performer : Sébastien Wojdan
Outside eye : Gilles Cailleau
Artistic collaboration : Guillaume Sauzay (Gus), Elice Abonce Muhonen
Light and props : Pierrot Usureau or Loïc Chauloux
Sound and Props : Mickaël Remigereau orFranck Beaumard
Construction : Benjamin Bottinelli Hahn and Luc Mainaud
Office management : Yvain Lemattre
Production and touring management : l’Avant Courrier – Nolwenn Manac’h

Co-productions : Carré Magique Lannion Trégor, Pôle national des arts du cirque en Bretagne / Le Grand Pré, Scène de Territoire / Centre National des Arts de la Rue, Le Fourneau

Supports : Espace Périphérique, Ville de Paris – Parc de la Villette / Le Trio Théâtre / Cirk Eole / Centre des Arts du Cirque Balthazar – Languedoc Roussillon / Le P’tit Cirk / Cirque Melem / Compagnie des Demoiselles / le Théâtre de la Folle Pensée

 2013

Circular tribune (we provide for our tribune and structure). Indoor & Outdoor. 160 people
80 min – From 6 years on

Juggling, knife throwing, slack wire, music.

«With the rage of a boxer and the stamina of a long-distance runner, Sébastien Wojdan embarks the spectator on the razor’s edge, in a show of drawn daggers. Marathon, the aptly named, superb universe of punk poetry distilled in a Circus ambiance.” Hervé Queille – Le Télégramme –  2 April 2013

«  As each new presentation of skill comes, one after another in never-ending succession, I think on the passage of time, and the series of ridiculousnesses that makes up a life.  Marathon is a sophisticated circus that doesn’t lose it’s accessible crowd-pleasing heart for a second.” The Circus Diaries de Katharine Kavanagh – 24 Octobre 2014