Popcorn Machine

On stage: Philinne Dahlmann, Elske van Gelder, Salvatore Frasca, Eva Ordonez Benedetto

Directed by : My!Laïka and Florent Bergal

Music and sound design : My!Laïka

Light design: My!Laïka and Alessandro Angius

Costumes: My!Laïka and Lola Kirchner

Photos : © Freddy Tornberg

Video : Andréa Burrafato

Coproduction : Transversales- Scène Conventionnée de Verdun

Support :Europe 2009-2010 Jeunes Talents Cirque, the European CommissionRezidencija/Residency: Espace Athic – Obernai en partenariat avec Les Migrateurs - associés pour les arts du cirque – Strasbourg, La Grainerie - Fabrique des arts du cirque de Balma, Circuits - Scène Conventionnée d’Auch, L’Usine - Lieu Conventionné pour les Arts de la rue - Tournefeuille, Mix’Art Mirys – Toulouse, Teatro Mattatoio – Frosinone, La Commanderie de Vaour, Art Centar - Svetvinčenat, Theateropdemarkt & Dommelhof – Neerpelt, Association Culturelle Santa Briganti, Scuola Romana di Circo, Centre Culturel de Ramonville. Accompaniment : Studio de Toulouse – PACT - Pépinière des Arts du Cirque Toulousaine, dispositif mutualisé Lido - Grainerie

What would the present be like if the future had happened in the past?

An absurd future exists on stage together with an unknown past, while a ventilator caresses a popcorn volcano; a visual dialectic which tickles the retina, which resounds in the eardrums and which swells up the nostrils of the audience. A scenical aesthetics which stimulates the synapses, accompanied with a theatratical play that tries to hit the cardiovascular organs.

This show, understood as a visual anthology which includes the techniques of hand to hand acrobatics, extreme trapeze, bycicle, live music, seems to explore the fragile distance between things and the way we perceive them. The sound of electric guitar gets distorted next to the music of a sawing machine, while the notes of the piano accompany the pain of transformation of the one who thinks of the border as something that can be passed.

The show is awarded by Jeunes Talents the Cirque Europe 2010., Prize for the best young company from Mirabilia Fossano.