Celui qui tombe

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Image courtesy of Grec Festival de Barcelona.

They say all kinds of audiences fall in love with Yoann Bourgeois’s shows at first sight, perhaps because this acrobat, juggler and choreographer is determined to defy the laws of movement and create group scenes that combine exceptional technical ability, unbridled imagination and a poetry that permeates it all. We first saw him in Barcelona at the 2018 Grec Festival with Minuit, but European audiences had long been familiar with him thanks to shows like Celui qui tombe. Here, he places six performers (are they dancers, acrobats or both at once?) on a constantly shaking platform, subjecting them to an instability that might have much in common with the insecurities and obstacles everyone faces over the course of their lives. Forced to work together and trust each other, these artists are performing on stage, but it almost seems as if they’re talking to us about human life.  

The show premiered in 2014 at the Lyon Dance Biennale, but hadn't yet been seen in Barcelona. This will be a new opportunity, following Minuit, to test the talent of this artist, who created his first company in 2010 after having performed with renowned choreographers. Trained in circus arts and dance, he was notably part of Maguy Marin's dance company and has created pieces that explore the concepts of gravity, balance and the point of suspension—the moment in which an object thrown into the air reaches the highest point of the parabola before it begins to fall—which has been the focus of quite a few of his stage creations.

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