©Ian Grandjean

NUIT

Collectif Petit Travers

45 mins / From 5 years old / Festival

  • Medium size, Room
  • Balls, Newspaper
  • Frontal
  • Heart of the festival

Representation(s)

One could imagine three characters in a closed space, it is night, it is dark. This is our backdrop, without image or sound. Then, a noise that calls for light, some figures, a flame, a ball. Drawn from their night, the silhouettes appear then. One face meets another. Life organizes itself to try, despite everything, to restore silence and bring back the darkness. There are all kinds of mysteries and this light that constantly break the continuous order of time. It is in a proximity that lets the noises escape from all sides that the eye of the spectator gets used to the weak light of a few candles, and then all perceptions are tinged with the spirit of magic.

Collective Petit Travers

The Collectif Petit Travers was founded in 2004. Since 2011, the artistic directions have been driven jointly by Nicolas Mathis and Julien Clément. The activity of the company is mainly centered on the production and distribution of large format juggling pieces and educational transmission.

In eighteen years, a repertory of eight plays, an amateur creation and four small forms were born, totaling more than 1000 performances throughout the world (England, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Cambodia, Laos, China, Argentina, Chile, Israel, Turkey…). Strong encounters with great names in Dance (Pina Bausch, Maguy Marin, Joseph Nadj), Circus (Jérôme Thomas) and Music (Sébastien Daucé, Pierre Jodlowski, Ensemble TaCTuS) took place along the way. Some of them have become collaborations, thus concretizing the dynamic of openness which since the beginning feeds this writing of juggling from the inside.

[Distribution]

  • A collective creation by :
  • Nicolas Mathis
  • Julien Clément
  • et Rémi Darbois
  • Design and production of the scenography :
  • Olivier Filipucci
  • Technical control :
  • François Dareys ou Gautier Devoucoux
  • With the magical collaboration of :
  • Yann Frisch
  • Digital development :
  • Ekito, sous la direction de Benjamin Böhle-Roitelet
  • Musical arrangements :
  • Denis Fargeton

[Production]

Production:

Collective Petit travers

Co-productions:

CIRCA, National Center for Circus Arts in Auch

LE SIRQUE, National Center for Circus Arts in Nexon

LE POLARIS, Rhône-Alpes stage in Corbas

Hosting in residence:

LES SUBSISTANCES International creation laboratory in Lyon

La BRÈCHE, National Center for Circus Arts in Cherbourg

LA GRAINERIE, Circus Arts and Itinerancy Factory in Balma

POLY-SONS in Saint-Affrique

Financial support:

NUIT received the writing grant for circus arts from the Direction générale de la création artistique / Ministère de la culture et de la communication,
Adami’s creation aid,
the Fonds de soutien à la création artistique numérique (SCAN) Région Rhône-Alpes, with the participation of the DICRéAM / CNC

This project has received a grant Processus Cirque from the SACD

Thanks to Orbotix for Sphero and for its support in this project

The Collectif Petit Travers is a company subsidized by the DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes and the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

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