Soritat

Timshel Company
2014
Soritat
Circus
& Live music
Direction
Fabienne Teulières
© Clothilde Grandguillot
Un Concert-cirque
avec
La Mal Coiffée
Contact
+33 (0) 676 85 20 75
[email protected]
Soritat
Circus and live music
A performance for ten women
With contemporary circus, dance and Occitan polyphony
For all audiences
From 10 years on
Duration 1:25 hour
Director
Fabienne Teulières
Assistant director
Fanny Soriano
Musical director
Laurent Cavalié
Music and songs
© Clothilde Grandguillot
La Mal Coiffée
Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back.
Through night dreams,
through events half understood and half remembered, she comes back.
Wild Woman comes to tell her story.
Clarissa Pinkola Estès / Women who run with the wolves : Myths and stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Soritat is a circus and live music show, performed by the Occitan polyphonic
group / La Mal Coiffée and five circus artists. On a stage covered with soil,
this production for ten women is a challenging combination of the physical and
the vocal, an exploration of the Wild Woman Archetype, inspired by the book
Women who run with the wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estès.
The contagious and sensitive energy of La Mal Coiffée’s rhythmic choir
combines the aesthetic creativity of contemporary circus to explore the Life/
Death/Life cycles of the Feminine Psyche. Brought into the light of our epoch,
the archetypal dimensions of their songs mingle with the physicality of the
flesh. The voices find a prolongation in the movements of the five other women,
circus artists and dancers, to experience sisterhood. Spattering the large soil
covered square with their gestures throughout several choreographic scenes,
they incarnate a repertoire of popular songs, a narration of witches swirling
under the poplar tree, the Holy Mary, the girls by the fields ready to flee, ready
to get married.
Those ten women have their feet deeply rooted in the earth
From which they draw the songs of the Seasons
The passions of country women and dead princesses
With the wild energy of the Pagan times,
They dance in the whirlwind,
Hang from branches
And open the door to blood-red questions.
Hélène Arnaud
Karine Berny
Myriam Boisserie
Marie Coumes
Laeticia Dutech
Circus and dance
Cécile Fradet
Sanja Kosonen
Béatrice Lalanne
Clémentine Lamouret
Marie-Anne Michel
Technical management
Frédéric Serret Sound designer
Franck Besson Light designer
Sandrine Rozier Costume designer
Olivier Gauducheau Design and building
Sandrine Leblond
Touring and production manager
Sabrina Lloris
Office and production manager
With the choreographic collaboration of
Thomas Bodinier
Premiered
In January 2014 in France
At Les Transversales/Verdun
Soritat
About the show
The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious.
If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door.
If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door.
If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.
Clarissa Pinkola Estès / Women who run with the wolves : Myths and stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
TOURing
France - Spring 2015
7 & 9 March 15 | South-Western France
LA GRAINERIE, Balma/Toulouse
Fabrique des arts du cirque et de
l’itinérance
24 March 15 | South-Western France
L’ESTIVE, Foix
Scène Nationale de l’Ariège
16 April 15 | Northern France
CIRQUE JULES VERNE, Amiens
Pôle National cirque et arts de la rue
© David Froemter
PRESS
Constantly on the edge, Soritat is an evocation of feminine sexuality, a metaphor of an intimacy enhanced by a touch of poetry and subtlety that only this combination of song and circus arts can suggest.
In addition to the powerful emotional feelings conveyed during the successive scenes, the artists give a
highly-skilled performance of [acrobatic] prowess alternatively arousing the consternation and enthusiasm
of the spectators. The spontaneous applause takes on an almost cathartic nature and after a 90 minute
performance of stunning intensity, the 10 comedians meet with a unanimous triumph. A climax revealing
what Art can provoke where words fail.
Dernières nouvelles d’Alsace, June 2014
FUNDING
CO-PRODUCTION
La Brèche | Pôle National des Arts du Cirque Basse Normandie
CiEL | Cirque en Lorraine (Cirk’Eole - Centre Pablo Picasso, Homécourt – Festival RenaissanceS Bar-le-Duc, Scènes Vosges – Transversales Verdun)
CIRCa | Pôle National des Arts du Cirque Auch / Gers / Midi Pyrénées
Cirque Théâtre d’Elbeuf | Pôle National des Arts du cirque Haute Normandie
Théâtre de Cusset | Scène conventionnée cirque
Verrerie d’Alès | Pôle National des Arts du Cirque Languedoc-Roussillon
With the support of
Espace périphérique – La Villette / Ville de Paris
and Théâtre dans les Vignes – Cie juin 88 / Couffoulens
FINANCIAL SUPPORT from Aide à la création des arts du cirque de la DGCA (Direction Générale de la Création Artistique) / Ministère de la Culture,
Association Beaumarchais-SACD, ADAMI, DRAC Midi-Pyrénées and Conseil Régional Midi-Pyrénées
Soritat
Cécile Fradet
Acrobatics
© David Froemter
Artistic crew
Her curiosity leads her to acrobatics and gestual theatre, movement
engendering emotion and her leaps are scattered spontaneously on the
soil of Soritat.
Sanja Kosonen
Tightrope dancing
Finnish, with long incandescent hair, her wild soul wanders across the
tightrope on high heels.
© Clothilde Grandguillot
Training: École de Lomme, Lido de Toulouse
Career: Le Biphasé, 111/Aurélien Bory, Mabeloctobre Theater
Training: Arts Academy of Turku (Finland), CNAC (National Center of Circus Arts, France)
Career: Les Colporteurs, Capilotractées, Mad in Finland
Sufi dance
From an early age, she practices singing and dancing from worldwide
cultural repertoires and her gyrating pirouettes full of prowess and
emotion are breath-taking.
© David Froemter
Béatrice Lalanne
Career: Bands Terra Maïre and Beatritz
Clémentine Lamouret
Rope and suspended branch
Training: Lido de Toulouse, CNAC
Career: Toron blues, L’éolienne/Florence Caillon, HVDZ/Guy Alloucherie
© Héloïse
An artist with the allure of child-like feminity and an ingenuous manner,
she unceasingly questions the perceptions of Feminity whilst suspended
from her rope.
Marie-Anne Michel
Chinese pole and vertical dance
Her upward movements on the Chinese pole, chiseled by the desert
winds, become the flowing and troubling dance of a Black Virgin.
© Michel Tonon
Training: Académie Fratellini, CNAC
Career: Carpe Diem, MPTA/Mathurin Bolze, Anomalie/HVDZ, Fatoumi-Lamoureux
Soritat
Artistic crew
La Mal Coiffée
Occitan polyphonic songs
La Mal Coiffée attains a full house at each of their performances, thanks
to their overflowing energy and sensitive emotivity and a unique repertoire
reviving Occitan popular songs. Whilst revealing the joys and sorrows of
everyday life: love, labour, celebrations and the pleasures of life, singing
becomes a percussion and the rhythm a poetry, a language that batters
and caresses simultaneously. In Soritat, La Mal Coiffée attempts a global
experience in which the physical presence and the songs are an integral
part of the performance’s aspiration.
Career: Several French venues (Cité de la Musique in Nanterre, Théâtre de Narbonne, La
Carène/Brest, Théâtre de Bayonne...), numerous festivals (Planète Musique/Paris, Sziget
Festival/Budapest, Les Suds/Arles, Les vieilles charrues/Carhaix, Festival Occitania/
Toulouse, Babel Med Music/Marseille...) & overseas (Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Italy,
Portugal, Mongolia…)
Fabienne Teulières
Artistic director
Fabienne Teulières is a circus artist, she graduated from the CNAC (National Center of Circus Arts, France)
and collaborated a long time with the collective Cirque désaccordé of which she is one of the founding
members. She directed Après la pluie with Christian Lucas, a production that toured over 170 times overseas.
After that, she took some time to maturate more personal projects. With the creation of her company Timshel,
she now devotes herself entirely to directing. Accompanied by a new team, she has given birth to an original
experience Soritat.
EXHIBITION
To accompany the show, the company can provide for an exhibition of six wooden framed paintings by Linet
Andrea, a painter and trapezist. The pieces of art were designed as an extension of the research work around
Soritat and give a sensitive insight into the creative process.
It is also possible to organise a larger exhibition with the complete collection of Linet Andrea’s pieces around
Soritat.
Soritat
Basic technical
requirements
TOURING CREW
15 persons
- Arrival 2 days before performance for 3 persons (technical managers)
- Arrival 1 day before performance for 12 persons
(10 artists, 1 touring manager, 1 artistic director)
technical Aspects
Proscenium stage or semi-circular stage
Indoor or in a Big Top
10 m wide * 11 m deep (minimum: 10 m)
Height under flies/grid: 7.50 m (minimum: 7 m)
Stage must be flat
Black dance floor
The performance area is entirely covered with soil.
CIRCUS EQUIPMENT
- Tightrope
Length: 8.50 m
Height: 2 m from one end to the other
2 points of rigging (supporting 2T each)
Minimum distance between points of rigging:
14 m stage right to stage left
- Rope and suspended branch
1 point of rigging
Height: 7.50 m (supporting 200kg)
- Freestanding Chinese pole
Height: 6 m
Floor: 3 m * 3 m
© Clothilde Grandguillot