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WoW Company / Chiara Marchese (IT/FR)

The Weight of the Soul – Everything is temporary

Duration: 60 Min.  |  Contemporary circus and Figure theatre  |  Wenig englischer Text

For adults

The performer combines circus artistry and puppetry. She uses a rope and a large figure made of thin wires. It’s all about equalweight. And how easy it is to lose it.

Chiara Marchese belongs to the generation of young circus artists who integrate their art into narrative contexts and open up completely new physical dimensions to theatre.

In an unusual combination of rope artistry and puppetry, ‘The Weight of the Soul’ tells of fear and self-confidence, fragility and balance. The balancing act on the rope, the naked body of the performer, the life-size double made of iron wire: all these signs of fragility cre- ate a suggestive landscape of instability. As spectators, we are drawn into a swirling narrative with thousands of outstretched threads that confronts us with what we are (not only) in times of crisis: our worst enemy and our best ally.

The production was awarded the Europe- an circus label ‘circusnext’ in 2021.

Idea, concept and performance: Chiara Marchese | Outer Eye: Francesca Lattuada, Julie Mondor, Marion Collé, Chloée Sanchez | Sound design: Alexis Auffray, Geoffrey Dugas Lighting design: Bernard Revel | Artistic psychodynamic consultant: Alberto Giorni

—   ATTENTION TRIGGER WARNING:   Stage fog  

  • Mi. 05.02.
  • 21:00
  • Stuttgart / Junges Ensemble Stuttgart (JES)
  • Prices: Free choice of price: 25 € / 18 € / 12 € / 7 €
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Förderhinweis

The performances are sponsored by the Institut français and the French Ministry of Culture