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Yokaï Kemame, the hairy bean spirit

Cie Defracto

50 mins / From 10 years old / Festival

  • Long form
  • Contortion, Foot juggling
  • Frontal
  • Outside the Walls

Representation(s)

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  • Théâtre Louis Aragon (2023)
  • Saturday 16 April 2022 / 19:00
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  • Full price: 17€
    Reduced price: 12€
    Child price: 8€
    Solidarity ticket: €5

Do you know Yokai? In Japanese culture, this name is given to strange and ambiguous creatures. Elusive supernatural spirits, sometimes sporting human features or hiding within inanimate objects. If we pay more attention to the world, we discover that there are many things that we do not understand around us. This is the message of Yokai Kemame .

This unusual and hypnotic juggling show was born from the collaboration between two jugglers, one French, the other Japanese. Both have fun between precision and contortion and transport you to a suspended, unusual and offbeat moment.

Cie Defracto

Company founded in 2008 by Laure Caillat, Guillaume Martinet, Minh Tam Kaplan and David Maillard, Defracto works to create body language and juggling. Each project is a collaboration, all actors are co-actors and participate in the design of the project. The collegial dimension of musical, scenographic and juggling writing is a constant. Based in Ile-de-France, the company creates abstract and absurd pieces, all based on playful, experimental juggling, composed with minimalist, tailor-made sound and light.

The Defracto Company will be accompanied by three cultural operators in the Ile-de-France for the next few seasons: La Coopérative De Rue et De Cirque/RueWATT, circusnext/Ferme Montsouris and La Maison des Jonglages. A collective adventure to follow…

[Distribution]

  • Juggling duo :
  • Hisashi Watanabe et Guillaume Martinet
  • Staged by :
  • Johan Swartvagher
  • Sound :
  • Sylvain Quément
  • Makoto Nomura
  • Costumes and accessories :
  • Eve Ragon
  • Sakurako Gibo
  • Production and distribution :
  • Camille Talva
  • Administration :
  • Laure Caillat
  • Management :
  • Sakurako Gibo
  • Grégory Adoir
  • Félix Perdreau

[Production]

Production : Cie Defracto

Co-productions and Residencies : The House of Juggling/conventioned stage La Courneuve; The City of Circus/Regional center for circus arts in Le Mans; Platform 2 Poles Circus in Normandy | la Brèche in Cherbourg – Cirque Théâtre d’Elbeuf; Interval / contracted stage of Sablé-sur-Sarthe; La Passerelle / National Stage of Gap – Southern Alps; Kanagawa Arts Theater / Yokohama, Japan

With the support of the DRAC, the French Institute in Paris and SPEDIDAM .
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