Kintsugi
artistic directors: Vincent Dubé
stage direction, light design: Olivier Lépine
music: Josué Beaucage
technical direction: Patrick Paquet
costume design: Sébastien Dionne
set design: Julie Lévesque
duration: 80’
premiere: Festival Vaison Danse, Vaison, 2024
performers: Maude Arseneault, Ariel Cronin, Damien Descloux, Raphaël Dubé, Anne-Marie Godin, Évelyne Paquin-Lanthier, Naomie Vogt Roby, Jack McGarr
Kintsugi is the art of sublimating imperfections. In a bus shelter away from the world and time, strangers wait to be taken somewhere else. They don't know when they'll leave or where they'll go. These motionless travelers rely on outside forces to lose themselves and, paradoxically, find something within themselves. This mysterious place awakens in everyone a thirst for life, for encounters and the unusual. A desire for solidarity, laughter and fun. In a sometimes waking dream, fragments of their past sculpt the present, revealing a new beauty. With this work, Machine de Cirque creates a moment of great humanity, imbued with vertiginous acrobatic prowess. An inspiring plunge into life, which is here, now and full of beauty.
Machine de Cirque is a Quebec City-based circus company founded in 2013 by six passionate artists, Vincent Dubé, Raphaël Dubé, Yohann Trépanier, Ugo Dario, Maxim Laurin and Frédéric Lebrasseur. The company launched its very first production in 2015, a show that would bear the organization’s name. This unique creation was a great success with audiences and critics alike. This production has been performed more than 700 times in Europe, Asia and North America and continues to tour to this date. In 2018, the nomadic show “Truck Stop: The Great Journey”, recounting the singular journey of an unusual group of campers across the American continent, was created. The show traveled across all of North America and was seen by more than 16 000 spectators. In 2019, “La Galerie” was born. In this third touring production, the spectators are invited to the frontiers of art and taken in an absurd exhibition at the museum. Still touring, this show has been presented more than 250 times in Europe, United States and in Canada. The company’s latest creation, “Kintsugi”, had its world Premiere at the prestigious Vaison Danses International Festival in Vaison-la-Romaine. Machine de Cirque is a circus company that packs high doses of dizzying feats, powerful emotions, poetry, intelligence and humor into its innovative and original circus shows. The Company’s ingenious and deeply human creations skillfully blend the highest levels of contemporary circus with musical and theatrical performances. Driven by this unifying vision, Machine de Cirque’s unique approach to the circus arts produces shows that dazzle the mind, touch the heart and move the spirit.
With this new creation, Machine de Cirque goes far beyond the world of circus and physical feats. “Kintsugi” opens the door to an entirely different universe. Brilliant!
© Le Journal de Montréal
You leave the theater with a smile on your face and your heart filled with beauty.
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