Discipline : Balancing

Public : for all ages
Show Lasts : 7 mns
No. of spectators : unlimited
Technical requirements : stage (minimum height below ceiling: 3.50 m), lights, sound system
Video available : yes
Contact and availability : +33 2 47 64 75 38

 

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Karen, a young balancing prodigy

Karen encountered the circus world through horseback riding. She began equestrian vaulting as well as dressage at the age of 9 with Patrick Grüss. Then she continued her training at the Ecole du Cirque de Lyon and at the Valérie Fratellini Centre of Circus Equestrian Arts before specializing in balancing acts, studying under Claude Victoria, former international performer, teacher of equilibristic arts and hand-to-hand balancing at the National Centre of Circus Arts in Châlons, France from 1984 to 1994. At the same time, she studied dance with Meriem Ravel at the Alain Astié Studio in Lyon.

Variations on the Shape of a Bird

An unusual act, combining performance technique and imagination, inspired by the automated characters of Robert Houdin, watchmaker, inventor, scholar and magician. A collage of a creature, with the unlikely fusion between a 19th-century figure and his contemporary double, the robot-like bird believes it can escape the constraints of its mechanism to perform its own act, but the machine catches up with it. A mixture of styles, striking music, in an off-beat atmosphere…

Choreography by Karen Tronchère and Béatrice Corbin, costumes by Glace Danse and Sylvie Sédillot.

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