HEART CORE

Cuir is a duet that revolves around the concepts of traction and attraction. In an impressive body-to-body confrontation, two men in harnesses play at manipulating each other’s bodies. The pleasure they experience on transforming each other into instruments, devices, a children’s playground or a battlefield unites them in a struggle marked by mutual consent. Caught between traction and attraction, they do not seek power over each other but rather power shared with each other.

Based in Brussels, Arno Ferrera and Gilles Polet are performers and choreographers who explore themes of masculinity through artistic proposals that focus on physical touch and intimacy. They draw on circus, dance and performance to present an artistic language marked by the notions of support, transformation and care. By creating opportunities for encounters of physical touch in their shows and workshops, Arno and Gilles offer a path to surrender, to the discovery of trust and, therefore, to the transformation of self-perception.

Creators Arno Ferrera, Mika Lafforgue & Gilles Polet / Performers Arno Ferrera & Gilles Polet / Artistic direction Arno Ferrera / External eye Paola Rizza / Choreographic eye Benjamin Kahn, Gilles Polet / Sound adviser Amaury Vanderborght / Light design Florent Blanchon / Light and sound technician Pierre-Jean Faggiani / Saddler Jara Buschhoff / Costumes design Jennifer Defays / Booking, production Anaïs Longiéras / Administration Sara Lemaire – Société Anonyme asbl / With the complicity of Alexandre Fray, company Un loup pour l’homme / Many thanks to the company Un loup pour l’homme: Lou Henry, Caroline Cardoso, Emma Lefrançois / Photographer Valérie Frossard / Video Romain Vennekens / Press relations Estelle Laurentin / Graphic design Ekta
Delegated producer Société Anonyme asbl / CUIR has been produced by the company Un loup pour l’Homme (FR) / Coproduction Le Bateau Feu, SN de Dunkerque (FR), Theater op De Markt, Dommelhof (BE), Larural, Créon (FR), Festival Perspectives, Sarrebrück (DE) / With the support Conseil Régional Hauts-de-France, SACD / Processus Cirque, Fonds Transfabrik (Fonds francoallemand pour le spectacle vivant). The company Un loup pour l’Homme has been supported by le Ministère de la Culture / Direction régionale des affaires culturelles Hauts-de-France – aide aux compagnies conventionnées / Partners residencies Tanzhaus Zürich (CH), Dommelhof Neerpelt (BE), L’échalier St Agil (FR), Larural Créon (FR), Le Moulin du Roc SN de Niort with the complicity of Cirque en scène (FR), Latitude 50 pôle arts du cirque et de la rue Marchin (BE), Katapult Berlin (DE), Le Prato PNC Lille (FR), La Faïencerie et La Locomotive Creil (FR)