
À nos vertiges
Emma Verbeke and Corentin Diana, two young artists from the CNAC national circus arts center, perform a physical duet in a constantly evolving space. They search for the verticals that will hold them upright and try to determine their relationship to a shifting ground, an unstable earth.
Their playground is a suspended wooden and metal object that is designed like a system of Russian dolls. It rises, splits, rolls, and swings, and with her aerial straps, Emma tends to escape into the air, to become inebriated with spirals and suspensions. These altering landscapes are both visual metaphors and the context of their relationship. It is a piece of land, a horizon, a ceiling, their gallery…
From balance to imbalance, with ardor and elegance, A Nos Vertiges [To Our Vertigo] never stops adapting its movements and interacting with instability. As a result, these two artists compose and recompose places, spaces, and time, both the meaning and the tenuous thread of their story, the rough sketches of their portrait…
Cast & Production
By and with
Corentin Diana & Emma Verbeke
Model for stage design
Goury
Outside artistic consultant
Mathurin Bolze
Sound design
Philippe Foch & Jérôme Fèvre
Lighting design
Clément Soumy
Costume design
Gabrielle Marty and Sofia Benchérif
Stage management
Antonin Chaplain
Pictures
Pierre Planchenaut
Romain Tissot
Production and touring
Compagnie les mains, les pieds et la tête aussi
Special thanks to
Julien Mugica and the CNAC national circus arts center workshop program
Supports
National companionship support
Cirk’Eole in Montigny-Les-Metz / MA national theater in Pays de Montbéliard / L'Agora national circus center in Boulazac Aquitaine / the La Garance national theater in Cavaillon / CIRCa national circus center in Auch Gers Occitanie / the 2 Pôles Cirque platform in Normandy - Cirque-Théâtre Elbeuf.