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Faces and unfaces

Fiction for an acrobat and his audience, 1999.

Artisitc design: Magali Desbazeille
Performer : Laurent Bienaimé


“About what goes through the spectators' minds while an acrobat performs and the influence on the performer; about taming images.
"What goes through an acrobat's mind while he is performing his act ?
"What goes through the minds of the audience while they are watching a circus act ?”

Images revealing the inner thoughts of a fictitious andience are projected on the performer's body.
According to the thoughts revealed by the voices, the acrobat plays with the images. He can deform and reform them, throw them up in the air and catch them again. By adjusting the position of his body, the acrobat can make the images clear and visible, or fuzzy and invisible.

 
Vues du numéro de cirque

The performer's gestures are defined according to the images projected and the thoughts that those images represent. The result is situated between choreography and balancing art.

Producer: Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains.