Everything nothing
Cie Modogrosso - Alexis Rouvre
55 mins / From 7 years old / Saison culturelle / Résidence
- Long form, Room
- Without words
Representation(s)
- Bondy
- Thursday 18 December 2025 / 20:30
- Reception area :Espace Chauzy exhibition room - Bondy town hall
Prices: €10.50 | €7 (concessions) | €4.50 (under 16s)
How to make see, make feel, flush out naked time, passing time, give it shape, capture it in its very movement? This is the challenge met by Alexis Rouvre and his “circus of objects”. Juggler of time, rather than gravity, he finds his inspiration in the astrophysicist Carlo Rovelli: “Bodies move naturally where time passes more slowly”. Alchemist of vanities, he composes from very simple objects – knitting, chain, stone – a work of dense poetry, opening up on the other side of the passing moment, lasting nothing, and maintaining everything.
Cie Modo Grosso
Compagnie Modo Grosso was born in 2015 from the meeting of circus artist Alexis Rouvre with dancer and visual artist Tiziano Lavoratornovi. This association leads them to explore the notion of attachment through dance, acrobatics, manipulation of objects. They confront the image of a man wearing a dog collar with various devices: by in situ or interactive performances, within plastic installations that they create or by video objects during several collaborations with the videographer Nina Cholet. .
From these experiments was also born, in 2017, the street show “Laisse! “.
Together or separately, Alexis and Tiziano wish to expand the company’s repertoire, in particular by multiplying collaborations with actors from other artistic disciplines. This is how the show “Entre-cordes” was created in 2019, an encounter between the work of Alexis Rouvre and the music composed and played on the harp by Déborah Colucci.
Currently in extension, the company is distinguished by its desire to create atypical shows that broadly explore the symbolic relationship of objects or elements with the moving body, space and the spectator. Through substantial research work and their desire to create links between authors, Alexis and Tiziano wish to build a favorable ground for the emergence of new and living writings, without compartmentalization to a genre or a place.
Alexis Rouvre is director and co-creator of the contemporary circus company Modo Grosso. Graduated from ESAC in 2009, he is a juggler, acrobat and dancer. During his studies and since then, he experimented with the manipulation of strings, thus creating a new discipline. His research generates various numbers that he plays between festivals and cabarets as well as the only on stage “Cordes” in 2014 and the duet with harpist Déborah Colucci “Entre-cordes” in 2019.
The object being often at the center of his work, he associates it with a strong physical presence which he enriches in particular by taking courses with the dancers David Zambrano, Peter Jasko, Roberto, Olivan, Martin Kilvadi. This is how he met Tiziano Lavoratornovi with whom he created “Laisse!” in 2017, a choreographic performance for the street on the theme of attachment.
As a performer, between 2016 and 2017 he joined the creations “HIP 127, La constellation des cigognes” by the Jérôme Thomas company and “Entre ciel et terre” by Martin Palisse.
[Distribution]
- By and with :
- Alexis Rouvre
- External view and scenography :
- Jani Nuutinen
- Musical composition :
- Loïc Bescond
- Design and construction of scenography :
- Alexis Rouvre
- Jani Nuutinen
- Sylvain Formatché
- Jean-Marc Billon
- General management :
- Hadrien Lefaure
- Administration :
- Victoria Makosi
[Production]
Production: Modo Grosso ASBL
Coproduction and residencies: Transversales, scène conventionnée cirque Verdun (FR); Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof (BE); Le Sirque, Pôle National des Arts du Cirque de Nexon – Nouvelle-Aquitaine (FR); SurMars – Mons Arts de la Scène (BE); Maison de jonglages, scène conventionnée Jonglage(s) (FR); AY-ROOP, scène de territoire pour les arts de la piste (FR); Central (BE).
Coproduction: Halles de Schaerbeek (BE)
In residence : Espace Périphérique (FR) ; La Fabrique de Théâtre (BE) ; Théâtre Marni (BE) ; Latitude 50 – Pôle des arts du cirque et de la rue (BE) ; Espace Catastrophe, center international de création des arts du cirque (BE) ; Maison de la Marionnette, center de la Marionnette de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (BE) ; Maison de la création de Bockstael (BE) ; CCBW – Centre Culturel du Brabant Wallon (BE) Le Tas de sable – Ches Panses Vertes, Centre National de la Marionnette en préparation (FR)
Support : Wallonie Bruxelles International (BE) ; Bourse Écriture en Campagne – Latitude 50, La Chaufferie-Acte1, la SACD et la SSA (BE) ; Iportunus – Creative Europe Programme ; LookIN’OUT (BE)
With the help of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, General Service for Artistic Creation – Fairground, Circus and Street Arts Service
Acknowledgements: Thanks to Stéphane Georis for “writing in the countryside” and for bringing flowers, to my friend Sylvain Formatché for his invaluable technical support, to Angela Malvasi for supporting and enlightening me, to David and Eddy from the La Fabrique de Théâtre workshop, to Sander and Rudi from the Dommelhof workshop, to the See-U workshop, to Sandrine Causse for working with ceramics, to Julia Christ, Roberto Magro and Guy Warenburgh for the little things that started it all.