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Danny Tavori (Cie. Suspendu) is a contemporary circus artist specializing in straps and hair suspension. Initially trained in mathematics, he later studied at FLIC (Turin), the MFA in Contemporary Circus Practices at DOCH (Stockholm), and the FOCON program at Esacto’Lido. His interdisciplinary work moves between minimalism and saturation, always rooted in physical practice and a mystical approach to matter and technology.

AMOW is a piece that follows a passive inhabitant trapped within his own illusions. A mythical force transforms his comfort into a nightmare, dragging him between wakefulness and dreams. Black cables, light bulbs, and suspended furniture without walls expose the inner workings of the house. The scenography becomes a possessed mechanism. Through aerial straps and hair suspension, the artist’s body becomes the threshold between structure and void, intertwining circus, contemporary puppetry, and rigging design.

HERTZ is the first long-duration creation by Cie Dissociée, following Pacemaker, and explores the themes of fakirism and clowning. Released in February 2024, this piece, suitable for all audiences from the age of 10, integrates theater, performance, and installation. At the center of the stage, a pile of crushed glass measuring 7 meters by 5.5 meters, weighing over 800 kg, interacts with dance movements and acrobatics. The performance questions the limits we impose on ourselves, addressing themes such as pain, resilience, and the boundaries of the impossible. By intertwining fakirism and clowning, HERTZ highlights human contradictions, inviting the audience to embrace their weaknesses and discover a more authentic and resilient humanity.

Marcelo Nunes is an author and performer whose artistic career is based on a constant search for novelty, influenced by his experiences in Brazil and Europe. His practice focuses on three techniques: trapeze, clown, and fakirism, exploring the wild nature of humanity. Since his first work, Pacemaker, Nunes has expressed his worldview through a unique artistic language. On stage, he uses the body as a tool for communication, creating an authentic dialogue with the audience. Through his creations, he seeks to foster a poetic resonance between the artist and the audience.

Marina Cherry, based in Stockholm, is a contortionist-acro-dancer, educated at ESAC (Brussels 2016-2019) and ENC (Montreal 2014-2016) she is now working on her solo show ‘Only Bones v.1.6’ as well as collaborative projects around Europe, including companies Les Argonauts and Petri Dish and Cirkus Cirkör. Her research-based approach to creation and performing puts her somewhere between dance, contemporary circus and physical theatre; with her body as the tool of manipulation and method for redefining traditional constructs and deconstructing techniques to find her own language.

‘AVoid’ is an anonymous space. An unusual body. A desultory corruption seeking reprieve. A pursuit of one’s fantasies, fears, and neuroses. Without a need for resolution or justification, AVoid is the astringent potentiality of the “in-between”: neither here nor there. The project is an attempt to touch on realities that belong to the indiscernible, the ineffable, those that are a reminder of the dissipation of certainties.

This project is born from Marina’s fascination with solitude, contradictions, alienation and the impact of rapidly developing—devolving—society in the face of digitalization. The common point being the concept hikikomori—the withdrawal into seclusion, a particular condition in Japanese society where people avoid social contact to an extreme level. Shutting oneself in.

After 12 years of circus in Finland where she was burned, Viivi came to France in 2009 to go to Centro Nacional de los Artes de Circo in Chalon en Champagne. From there, Viivi were involved in a lot of project with her circus agres : the rope. She co-created two shows Metsa – the forest project with Sade Kamppila and the duo Dans ton cirque with Fragan Gehlker and Ana Tauber. She’s now creating her first solo with a mini rope called « V ».

Delving into Viivi’s innerself, V is a performance in which the artist reveals her personal mythology. Her relationship with the rope is the subject matter of the show. In V, Viivi has chosen to shorten it thereby opening a new range of possibilities by instilling a greater void and a different apprehension of the ground. Infused with the pleasure of her first solo performance, she embarks the audience on a journey to her inner depths reminding us of our multiple selves.

Breach

[Breach (n): violation or infraction of a rule or law; rupture in a relationship; gap, rift, fissure. (Vt) Act of emerging to the surface.]

She’s humble and submissive. She’s strong and sometimes likes to be dominated in sex. She’s not been able to say no.

She didn’t say anything because she felt very embarrassed, she felt guilty; she isn’t even sure if she’s been really raped or abused.

A cry in silence and a memory in stand-by.

And who are they?

Let’s begin to talk.

Through a physical and musical language, Som Noise invites the spectator to a space of ambiguity between pleasure and pain, eroticism and violence and submission and empowerment, to reach a dialogue about cases of abuse and gender violence.