Sujets :
Acrobalance [compagnie de cirque]
Extreme Symbiosis [spectacle de cirque]
Arts du cirque - Recherche et création
Acrobatie - Recherche et création
Arts du cirque - Processus de création
Von Euler Bjurholm, Louise [artiste de cirque]
Agger, Henrik [artiste de cirque]
Dessins de cirque
Compagnies de cirque - Suède

Dépouillement du document :
THE PERFORMANCE
Henrik Agger and Louise von Euler Bjurholm presents an intimate 55 minute documentary performance that gives the spectator an insight to their work, practice and lives as pair acrobats. Henrik and Louise has been working together for 13 years and in “Extreme Symbiosis” they share their artform and everyday life as performers.

By showing and highlighting the importance of constant mental and physical training in their artform they hope to broaden peoples understanding of it. The daily practice is their common goal as well as a driving force that overrides even personal feelings. The trust and the cooperation needed in their practice is affected by both emotional and external factors such as time and space. The performance is heartfelt and touches on universal experiences that anyone can relate to.

BACKGROUND
This performance is very much our practice. We will show a piece of our daily training as it is, a repetition of certain routines which has been part of our practice over the years we been working together. Of course it has changed slightly over the years, the process has moved to one or the other side, but the basis is the same now as then.

The circus as an art form is largely based on the repetition of the same material. It is in this way circus arts often differ from other art forms. We bring our repertoire wherever we go. Instead of changing repertoire it is the context which changes.

In the search to find a performative format that could display various aspects of our practice, we both felt the daily training was the most representative. It is what physically and mentally affects us the most in our practice, it is what everything revolves around. It is where our interest is located, yet it is not the side we usually show. So this performance is both an experiment and an everyday routine for us.

Résumé :
“Extreme Symbiosis” is the result of a research project, where we have tried to examine our circus discipline pair acrobatic on a deeper level. Outside the stage and behind the risky moments there is a whole practice that we want to highlight, and we therefore decided to explore what our practice consists of. What happens in the interaction between us when we perform our practice? A collaboration between bodies and minds, individual systems and common senses. A long-standing partnership based on extreme trust which is challenged every day in the practice.

Our goal with this performance is to make a performative staging of our practice that can touch on topics without having to explain too much. We want to let our practice to speak for itself through the physical expression, but also give the spectator an insight into the daily practice of our art. By adding our own documented material such as film, texts and audio interviews we hope that the different medias can complement each other and together convey a nuanced picture of our practice.


In these books the genre of pair acrobatics is depicted, discussed and problematized, seen from our perspective as practitioners. In the white book you will find uncensored diary notes, while the black book is a description of the practice and a problematizing of its phenomenons. [editor summary]

Remerciement au donateur : Walter Ferrero

Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque

Localisation : Bibliothèque

Cote : 791.309 224 85 E88e 2013

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• Ex. 2 — disponible