Qui som?
© Christophe Raynaud de Lage
Program Information
| Genre | Dance/Contemporary circus/Theatre |
|---|---|
| Dates | 3 May at 13:00, 4 May at 13:00, 5 May at 13:00, 6 May at 13:00 |
| Venue | Shizuoka Arts Theatre |
| Duration | 150 minutes without intermission |
| Duration | In French, Spanish, English, Portuguese, and Khme with Japanese and English surtitles |
| Seat | Reserved seating |
| Authors | Camille Decourtye, Blaï Mateu Trias |
| Production | Baro d’evel |
Movie
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Introduction
Baro d’evel is a circus and performing company formed by actors, dancers, circus artists, musicians and ceramists from France and Catalonia. This humorous and powerfully vibrant “Qui som?” was world premiered at the Avignon Festival in 2024 and became a major talking point. With their bodies not seeming to feel gravity, and the stage constantly transforming from scene to scene, the performance is dreamlike while also provoking primitive feelings that encourage us to make a journey to “the world to come”.
Artist’s profile
Camille Decourtye
As the creator of Baro d’evel, Camille Decourtye is the author and performer of all the company’s shows. From her childhood spent with horses, travelling in caravans and on horseback, she retains the need to invent a way of life and research that will satisfy her need for travel and encounters. This led her to train at national circus schools and to develop experimental work on movement and voice. She continues to refine her connection and collaboration with the animals she lives with, based on the principles of ethology. Her need to express the invisible, to highlight what connects us in this damaged world, gives her the energy to question, with each project, how the conflicts and complex arrangements we make with the world are hidden within each artist and spectator. Her obsession with breaking down barriers between languages, roles and modes of experimentation makes Baro d’evel’s writing a quest for metaphysics in motion.
Blaï Mateu Trias
Creator of Baro d’evel, Blaï Mateu Trias is the author and performer of all the company’s shows. Born in Barcelona, he grew up in the post-Franco Catalan artistic scene, with two clown parents. With Circ Cric, tours alongside Tortell Poltrona and expeditions with Clowns Without Borders, he developed a taste for the intersection of languages. At the age of 16, he left to train in circus arts in France, where he settled. His encounter with a new culture opened his eyes to new possibilities, but also confirmed his attachment to his original influences: Catalonia, its architecture and painters, a political relationship with the clown and his benevolent view of the world, and the generosity and audacity of street arts. His sense of rhythm and space is the basis of his research work, and his obsession with the musicality of movement generates unique choreographic compositions. His visceral need to experiment with materials has led him to design innovative performance spaces and enabled him to question contemporary forms of composition with Baro d’evel for the past 20 years.
Cast / Staff
Authors: Camille Decourtye and Blaï Mateu Trias
With Lucia Bocanegra, Noëmie Bouissou, Rita Carmo Martins, Julien Cassier, Camille Decourtye, Alima Hamel, Dimitri Jourde, Rita Mateu Decourtye, Blaï Mateu Trias, Marti Soler, Voleak Ung, Guillermo Weickert.
Collaboration in directing: Maria Muñoz and Pep Ramis / Mal Pelo
Collaboration in dramaturgy: Barbara Métais-Chastanier
Set design and costumes: Lluc Castells
Lighting design: María de la Cámara and Gabriel Paré / Cube.bz
Musical collaboration and sound creation: Fanny Thollot
Musical collaboration and composing: Pierre-François Dufour
Material / colour research: Bonnefrite
Ceramic percussion engineer: Thomas Pachoud
Ceramist: Sébastien De Groot
Technical management: Romuald Simonneau
Accessoirist, Ceramist: Benjamin Porcedda
Stage management: Mathieu Miorin
Lights management: Enzo Giordana
Sound management: Cholé Levoy
Dresser: Alba Viader
Cook: Ricardo Gaiser
Managing director / Promotion: Laurent Ballay
Production administrator: Caroline Mazeaud
Production manager: Pierre Compayré
Administration assistant : Élie Astier
Production: Baro d’evel
Coproduction: Festival d’Avignon, ThéâtredelaCité – CDN Toulouse Occitanie, Festival GREC de Barcelona, Festival les Nuits de Fourvière, Festival Romaeuropa, MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine Saint Denis, Le Grand T, Théâtre de Loire-Atlantique, Scène Nationale d’Albi-Tarn, Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne, Comédie de Genève, Les théâtre Aix-Marseille / Grand Théâtre de Provence, Le Parvis scène nationale Tarbes-Pyrénées, Centro Cultural Belem Lisbon, Les Halles de Schaerbeek – Bruxelles, Festival la Strada Graz, Théâtre de Liège, CDN de Normandie-Rouen, Les Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon et UTOPISTES – Cité Internationale Des Arts du Cirque, Scène nationale du Sud Aquitain, Équinoxe scène nationale de Châteauroux, Tandem scène nationale de Douai-Arras, Scène nationale de l’Essone, Théâtre Sénart-Scène nationale, Le Volcan – scène nationale du Havre, Théâtre d’Orléans / Scène nationale, Le Grand R, La Roche sur Yon, Théâtre Châtillon Clamart, Malakoff scène nationale, Théâtre Les Gémeaux Scène nationale – Sceaux, Cirque Théâtre Elbeuf PNC Normandie, SQY scène nationale de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines.
With the help of L’animal a l’esquena à Celrà, CIRCa, PNC Auch Gers Occitanie, La Grainerie, le théâtre Garonne scène européenne et La nouvelle Digue, Toulouse
With the support of the DGCA, Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Haute-Garonne County Council and ARTCENA – Écrire pour le cirque.
The company is is under financial agreement with Ministry of Culture and Communication – Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of Occitania / Pyrenees – Mediterranean and the Region Occitania / Pyrenees Mediterranean. It receives operational funding from the City of Toulouse.
Nursery service
Coming soon…
Talk
◎Pre-performance talk: Starting 25 minutes before each performance.
Notice
*Please tell us beforehand if you want to see the show with preschool children.
Enjoy your festival day!
