LA VISPERA + CIE 7BIS

Fragmentos (work in progress)

This intimate and highly poetic performance uses puppets, masks, video, circus, lighting and interactivity to open a discussion about pain and suffering and how it can be alleviated through fragmentation. The circus serves as a tool to help to blur the limits of everyday bodily movement, along with an investigation into the use of puppets and masks to explore the deformation and disintegration of the corporeal.

La Víspera is a company formed by Vinka Delgado and Diego Hernando. Delgado has trained in Fine Arts and also in circus and theatre as a need to expose the body and use movement; this has allowed her to combine both studies to construct puppets, masks, costumes and scenery, as well as acting. Diego Hernando, a qualified teacher and sound, video and lighting technician, uses his training as a tool to enhance stage language.

Direction and interpretation Diego Hernando and Vinka Delgado / External eye Anthony Mathieu / Choreograph Lucrezia Maimone / Music Antonio Jesús López / Artistic collaboration Walid el Yafi and Christine MacKenzie / In scene Vinka Delgado, Diego Hernando and Christine MacKencie / Light, design and video Diego Hernando  / Puppet construction Vinka Delgado / Costume Vinka Delgado /Production La Víspera / Distribution La Víspera

Instante

In Instante, Juan Ignacio Tula is inspired by Sufi dance, trying to serve the continuous rotating movement with raw material. Through the expression of an intense and endless centrifugal force, throught an exchange of forces and counterweights between the metal of the Cyr Wheel in contact with the rest, opening a field of possibilities in the interior of this discipline.

Cie 7bis, based in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, was founded by Juan Ignacio Tula in 2019 to continue his research on the Cyr wheel and promote circus performance. Italy’s Marica Marinoni is a specialist in the Cyr wheel, trained at the FLIC Scuola di Circo in Turin.

Direction and performer Juan Ignacio Tula /  Light design Jérémie Cusenier /  Sound design Gildas Céleste / Costume Sigolène Petey / Technical production Estelle Lembert and Célia Idir in alternance / roduction and distribution Triptyque Production – Andréa Petit-Friedrich / Administration Anne Delépine
Production Compagnie 7Bis / Partners and collaborators Espace Périphérique, Parc de La Villette – Mairie de Paris; MA scène Nationale – Pays de Montbéliard; El Festival utoPistes en partenariat amb Les Nouvelles Subsistances; la Maison de la danse, Lyon / Special thanks to the company Les Mains, Les Pieds Et La Tête Aussi