Experiments in art and science

Since 2022, the Maison des Jonglages and the Atelier du Plateau have been working together to co-produce and present collaborative works as part of evenings dedicated to experiments in the arts and sciences. The public is invited to enter a laboratory where researchers and artists will dialogue and then share their practices and their knowledge through new forms between art and scientific research.

Juggling criticism of the sporting body

The stage is a meeting place. One defends a critique of the Olympic model and the sporting body as a paradigm of the Western, functional, scientistic body in terms of centimeters, grams and seconds. The other has been hurting himself since childhood through running and juggling, but dreams of taking part in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games. Between the sporting body and the poetic body, what perspective? Locked together in a circumscribed space-time, will they emerge from their dispute without a scratch?

Pierre Philippe-Meden

Pierre Philippe-Meden is a teacher-researcher and lecturer in circus history and aesthetics at the Theatre and Performing Arts Department of the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, where he is responsible for the theatre studies degree. A member of the RiRRa21 research unit (representing, inventing, reality from Romanticism to the 21st century), her work focuses on the imaginary, aesthetics, sensibilities and representations of the human body. They combine the disciplines of sports science and the performing arts. Significant publications: “L’obscène des performing arts au Festival d’Avignon”, in P. Frei et N. Labère (dir.), L’obscène, mode d’emploi, MSHA, “PrimaLun@ 16”, 2022, p. 55-65; [with P. Warnery] “Marie France ou la Marilyn du défilé-spectacle Mugler-Follies”, Revue d’Études Culturelles, 9, 2022, pp. 41-51; [avec Luc Robène] “Information et communication: vers une éthique de la médiatisation sportive”, Jurisport, 225, 2021, p. 29-31.

Johan Swartvagher