Premieres as part of the Spring Festival at CDN Le Préau de Vire. Created with Antoine Herniotte and Pauline Peyrade, based on the text by Pauline Peyrade.
A five-part polyptych, POINGS constructs a performative device based on a dialogue between textual, choreographic, and sound writing, centered on the theme of rupture. These are five moments in a romantic relationship perverted by violence, told through text, dance, music, and acrobatics. These are five radically biased gestures that plunge us into the heart of obsessive rumination. Exhausting oneself to awaken, destroying oneself to rebuild, going as far as possible to return as close as possible to oneself—each experience explores a borderline state to reveal the relentless force of refusal and resistance that we carry deep within us: an eye that never looks down, a fist clenched tightly in the dark.
“The show Poings indeed falls under ‘new writing,’ but exceeds the ‘circus’ category as it belongs to several—and, truthfully, to none.”
J.P. Thibaudat
A powerful young trio —
The staging perfectly matches the heart of the text, its deeper meaning, and delivers through the tools of performance a radical, clear, and political message. A theatre of violence that heals.
Louise Rulh
The alchemy of the word revisited through stage and dramaturgical poetics
The effect of an uppercut — A theatrical object that (con)sciously disturbs
All in all, Poings is a strange theatrical object. Between theatre and circus, between song and scream, the performance defies all genre definition. But its hybrid nature may be the key to its success. Because Poings truly ‘carries’ the audience between fear and fascination, between shock and disgust, between disbelief and hope.
Morgane P
