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Circo Aereo & Les Objets Volants in Espresso Nov 13
Posted October 6, 2009
Note: We've seen the individual players live in other productions, and we've seen this one on video. Highly recommended. The cane act (pictured) is mind-blowing. Posted as received.
Circo Aereo & Les Objets Volants in Espresso
We are happy to announce our American tour with Espresso, a show created by Finnish company Circo Aereo and French company Les Objets Volants, with on stage: Maksim Komaro, Denis Paumier, Antoni Klemm, and Sanna Silvennoinen.
Here are the dates:
- October 22–23: Richmond, VA (Modlin Center for the Arts)
- October, 25: Bethesda, MD (Strathmore
- October, 27–28: Asheville, NC (Diana Wortham Theater)
- October 30, South Boston, VA (The Prizery)
- November 3, Orono, ME (Maine Center for the Arts)
- November 5, Providence, RI (Nazarian Performing Arts Center, Rhode Island College)
- November 8, Fairfax, VA (Center for the Arts, George Mason University)
- November 10, Shepherdstown, WV (venue to be confirmed)
- November 13, Stony Brook, NY (Staller Center for the Arts)
- November 14, Fairfield, CT (Quick Center for the Arts)
About Circo Aereo
Intelligent discoveries, astonishing virtuosity, subtle humour, breaking of boundaries, experiences, challenges, energy, sensibility, surprises, strength, courage, creativity, and contrasts
Circo Aereo is an international contemporary circus group from Finland. Circo Aereo is based in Finland and France, but the troupe frequently performs around the world. Currently one of the most active Finnish groups in terms of performing abroad, Circo Aereo is among the flagships of Finnish cultural exports. In the past few years, Circo Aereo's productions have been a major factor contributing to the rise of Finnish contemporary circus internationally. Active since 1996, the group has visited distinguished festivals and theaters in over 20 countries. Circo Aereo's barrier-breaking and open approach to the various forms of the performing arts mesmerises and astonishes audiences throughout the world.
Courage to experiment and skill to evoke feelings: Circo Aereo!
About Les Objets Volants
The company Les Objets Volants creates juggling performances and has been producing them in France and around the world since 1999. Through various artistic propositions, the shows give greater place to research and new techniques on the objects and their manipulation.
The company was founded in 1999, by Denis Paumier, Toon Schuermans, and David Fischer, after they met in 10th promotion of Centre National des Arts du Cirque de Châlons-en-Champagne (France). The meeting of these artists with various cultures and skills gave birth to the show Impers et Passes, a trio which humorously mixed juggling, theater, movement, and music. Since then, other shows have been created with different people under the direction of Denis Paumier, and the adventure continues.
About Espresso
Espresso is a French-Finnish performance that freely mixes genres and approaches of circus expression. Traditional circus, cabaret, and contemporary circus confront and overlap.
"Les quatre compères ouvrent la parte d'un imaginaire riche et singulièrement original."
–Le Figaro
A Finnish-French co-production where the different styles of circus fuse into a free flow. A combination of traditional circus art, sidewalk performance, and contemporary circus based on movement, Espresso marches onto the stage a group of versatile Finnish-French artists. At the end, the caravan slowly draws away with its wagons and the moon rises in the sky to kiss them goodbye.
Espresso is a high speed journey in the labyrinth of circus history, a journey from which the eye can only catch images, lights, and movements. Impressions: A rabbit. Four artists come and go. They juggle and dance while time goes by, while costumes and music change, while the art is altering. Each one on stage lives this strange experience to be his own ancestor and his own future, for a short moment each time. And every period of time adds to the others to concentrate their art even more.
Bien serré, l'espresso.
The four artists play to introduce flaws in the chronology and suspicion in what is to be seen; they play to exaggerate, between tribute and parody. "You do what you need to do," but you do not think less.
Bienvenue, l'expression.
More Information:
circoaereo.net
lesobjetsvolants.com
See also JuggleNYC.com
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