Ôde À La Multitude

Ôde À La Multitude is first and foremost a juggling show, where balls tell stories and bodies speak.
Without words, a meaning emerges, a thought takes shape, a universe is created.
Our aim is to return to the simplicity of juggling: no cumbersome themes unrelated to the proposed sequences, just two jugglers, their apparatus and the art that flows from it.

We often hear about the expressiveness of the human body in dance, but less so in juggling.
In this discipline, every throw, every catch, every move, creates a different form where the body adapts to recover and then start again.
We’re interested in the language of body movement inherent in juggling, in the forms that can be created with two bodies and in harmony with objects.

When we look at contemporary juggling circus shows, the tendency to prioritize the expressiveness of the piece means that the number of objects and the level of juggling technique is thus compromised, as if one were to the disadvantage of the other. We want to make juggling with a large number of objects one of the main focuses of our piece; it’s our main language as artists and we believe in its intrinsic poetic potential.

Ôde À La Multitude came to us from a desire to combine juggling with principles of choreography, dance and music, while maximizing the number of balls and with an aesthetic, non-demonstrative aim.
Using a judicious composition of sequences and different scenes, we invite the audience to follow us on a journey through the twists and turns of our vision of contemporary juggling.

Compagnie JHEB

Compagnie JHEB was created on the initiative of two jugglers, Eyal Bor, Mexican-Israeli, and Jean-Hicham Rahmoun, Franco-Moroccan.
Both ball jugglers with a penchant for numbers and an attraction for dance and movement, the desire to develop something in common came to them through conversations about juggling and joint juggling sessions.
After seeing each other’s graduation acts, the link between their worlds gave them even more reason to embark on this duo project.