Maeterlinck Award for Best Circus Show
"A real gem with a big BOOM"
- Jule, Girlhood
"We understand each other through the absurd and the physical. This JETLAG is highly recommended."
-Fred Lecoeur, Editions Sansqu'ilsoitbesoin
"A very engaging adventure, to be enjoyed… without any moderation."
- Laurent Ancion – C!RQ en CAPITALE N°6
"The art of transforming the absurd into comedy, using the body to create improbable yet meaningful situations. A truly beautiful experience."
- The Best of Avignon Off
JETLAG
Jetlag is, first of all, an emotional journey, constantly out of step…
In between airports, from a crowded transit zone to a confined airplane cabin, a man is trying to keep his loneliness at bay. Lost in exhilaration and confusion, as he moves from one place to the next, space and time are blurred; he dreams of a new start. But as he steps forward on his quest, he realizes that things might not turn out the way he expected.
The Chaliwaté Company tells a story but doesn’t limit the senses: it is for our feelings to understand this dance meant for three, as the dozen scenes take us from the passenger seat of an airplane to the cockpit, through an airport terminal, and aboard the wings of imagination. If an engineer analyzed this strange alloy, he would most certainly find a piece of Jacques Tati, but also the comical cadence of French comedies from the 70s, willingly absurd, and references to slapstick of silent films. Approaching the art of mime as a question rather than an answer, the cheerful team leads us, thanks to this principle, on a very moving adventure, to be consumed without restraint.
Directors: Sicaire Durieux, Loïc Faure, and Sandrine Heyraud-Danailov
Performers: Elsa Taranis Debefve, Loïc Faure, and Paul Mosseray
Technical Director: Karl Decarreaux
About Chaliwaté
Since the beginning in 2005, the Chaliwaté Company has worked on creating shows, researching and transmitting the arts of movement. Each show is the result of an exploration of the artistic and acting principles specific to gestural arts, but also of ways to allow these art forms to meet other forms of stage
art such as circus, dance, or object theatre. This need to innovate from one project to the next comes with a desire to go deeper into and clarify a language of movement, putting emphasis on the body’s ability to suggest and express an idea, to present metaphors, rather than just a display of physical abilities. Each movement feeds and becomes part of a narrative process, of the story being told. The company aspires to make of each show a distinct experience with its own artistic universe
and physical eloquence. To this day, the Chaliwaté Company has created and performed 3 shows: Îlo, specially thought for young audiences, Josephina and Jetlag, for everyone to see. The team is currently working on a forth project.
