À Mesure - Handle with care - Accompany ME
CREATION 2024
A Cyr wheel duo show
50 minutes, 8+, language no problem , Indoor & Outdoor
Accompany ME is an contemporary circus company. It is a project of international influence: the performers originate from Italy and Lithuania, both educated and trained in the Netherlands and both living and working in Toulouse, France.
Through their work, the two authors aim to offer their audience a moment of lightness in counterbalance with the more serious themes which they handle - all of this strictly in the language that circus can offer.
The company pursues the theme of gender equality as it is created and performed by two women, in an equal and non-hierarchical relationship.
ABOUT THE SHOW
In À mesure - Handle with care, Accompany ME is inspired by the English word “pace”, as it indicates the rhythm, the step, the cadence. It recalls the sharing of a journey with another person.
With this work the two female artists want to leave a positive and heartwarming message. The show offers a glance over the intimate space of a relationship: it shows the teamwork that is necessary to make things work… The goal is to keep on going, together.
The Cyr wheel language is explored in all its directions, as well as it is combined with the use of objects, such as eggs, who are known for their fragility.
À mesure - Handle with care is an allegory of love in life.
CONTACT: meaccompany.me@gmail.com
CREDITS
Authors and performers Monika Neverauskaite & Elena Damasio
Music composition Eric Pollet & Valentin Avoiron
Outside eye and dramaturgical advice Marie Vela, Clémentine Dilé, Gildas Aleksa
Light creation Mantas Pauliukonis
Trailer Mindaugas Drigotas
Pictures Dainius Putinas, Donatas Ališauskas
Accompany ME is coproduced by the Lithuanian Council for Culture in partnership with Teatronas.
Residencies at: Cirko Sapiens (LT), Latitude 50 - Pôle des arts du cirque et de la rue: www.latitude50.be, Subtopia (SE), Maison des Jonglages (FR), l’Essieu du Batut (FR), La Roseraie (BE), Ecole de cirque de Tarbes Passing, Arts Printing House (LT), MJC Croix Daurade and MJC Ponts Jumeaux, Toulouse (FR), Dialoghi – Residenze delle Arti Performative a Villa Manin 2022_2024, Udine (IT), Station Circus, Basel (CH), Festival Spoffin, Amersfoort (NL).
Funded by: Sweden-Lithuania Cooperation Fund and Culture Moves Europe- Goethe Institut.
TECHNICAL INFO
- Stage size: 8 x 8 x 3,5 m (w,d,h) The floor area should be hard, flat, even and covered in black dance floor. Suitable for a Cyr wheel.
- Sound system suitable for the space and the size of the audience with a plug-in for a computer.
- Lights and colors will be used from the theater according to the light plan. -
- Necessity of a plug of 220V on the stage side.
More information can be found in the technical rider at request.
CALENDAR
- 10 June 2023 Work in progress - Festival Barakacirq, Tarbes (FR).
- 6 September 2023 Work in progress - Festival Helium, Vilnius (LT).
- 24 November 2023 Work in progress - Maison des Jonglages, La Courneuve (Paris, FR).
- 28 November 2023 Festival Circus Stations, Visaginas (LT).
- 12 January 2024 Work in progress - Latitude 50, Marchin (BE).
- 21 February 2024 Work in progress - MJC Croix Daurade, Toulouse (FR).
- 27 April 2024 Villa Manin, CSS Udine - Udine (IT).
- 2 May 2024 Festival HOPLA, Bruxelles (BE).
- 23 May 2024 Station Circus, Basel (CH).
- 13-14-15 June 2024 PREMIERE at festival Cirkuliacija, Vilnius (LT). PREMIERE AND TOUR
- 19-20-21 July 2024 Grand Festival OFF, Verdun (FR).
- 23 - 25 August 2024 Festival Spoffin, Amersfoort (NL).
- 7 September 2024 Festival Cirque au Jardin, Marcouyeux (Corréze, FR).
- 29 September 2024 Festival Cirque Mania, Korzo Theater, Den Haag (NL).