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. 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, above all, an emotional journey—one that is constantly out of step.
Moving between airports, from crowded transit zones to the confined cabin of an airplane, a man struggles to keep his loneliness at bay. Caught between exhilaration and confusion as he travels from one place to the next, space and time begin to blur, and he dreams of a new beginning. Yet as he moves forward in his quest, he comes to realize that things may not unfold as he had hoped.
Chaliwaté tells a story without limiting the senses; this is a dance for three that invites our emotions to lead the way. Across a dozen scenes, we journey from the passenger seat of an airplane to the cockpit, through an airport terminal, and onto the wings of imagination.
Dance, circus and gestural theatre come together to explore the subject of solitude. Leaning on texts by Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, as well as a singular scenography, the challenge was to blend the comical nature of the situations presented, with the tragic of a character. We intended, in this way, to get closer to a farcical and absurd world in which the main character evolves and personifies, in a poetic manner, the freedom and carefreeness of someone who is out of sync with the rest of the world.
Directors: Sicaire Durieux, Loïc Faure, and Sandrine Heyraud-Danailov
Performers: Elsa Taranis Debefve, Loïc Faure, and Paul Mosseray
Technical Director: Karl Decarreaux
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.
