Suzanne – Une histoire du cirque

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1950s: Suzanne and her husband perform a breathtaking aerial act around the world. At a height of 10 metres, without a net. For each performance, they need the right, sure, exact gesture to ward off the risk. Double or nothing, every time.
2017: Anna meets Suzanne, a nonagenarian. Discovers her story. And wonders. About the circus of its heyday, the constraints it imposed, the freedom it offered. About a singular art form, demanding and ephemeral, in which we commit ourselves wholeheartedly, but which is accomplished in the moment, and survives only in the memory of a few.
In recounting Suzanne's story, and in rescuing her fetish act from oblivion, Anna seeks out what has withstood the passage of time. What remains of us, of our risks, our gestures, our moments of incandescence? What remains of our past beauties and perfections? Of grace and time, which abolishes the other?

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Cirque Jules Verne | Amiens
Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers | Nanterre
Les Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon | Lyon Book
MiraMirO Internationaal Straattheaterfestival vzw | Gand
In collaboration with Festival Smells like Circus
Latitude 50 - Pôle des arts du cirque et de la rue | Marchin
Les Halles de Schaerbeek | Bruxelles
Maison de la Culture de Tournai | Tournai
Le CentQuatre #104 Paris | Paris Book
Théâtre Garonne | Toulouse Book
Le Théâtre - Mâcon Scène Nationale | Mâcon
La passerelle | Saint-Brieuc