For each new creation, the circus artist steps out of their comfort zone to explore beyond what they know. Discovering new sensations and ideas, acquiring skills, and pushing movements to reveal themselves. This stage is well known, yet essential. But we often forget what comes after, what remains to be accomplished with this newly discovered artistic space.
In this collective workshop, Hanna Mampuys proposes to address this phase of appropriation. How to expand one’s comfort zone to include this still hostile place for the artist? How to set the new boundaries of this moving zone?
Tonight, we celebrate this ever-growing and expanding comfort zone. We love being on stage. We enjoy feeling comfortable on stage. We love seeing you appreciate our joy. Let’s celebrate together.
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During the supervised collective projects, students are confronted with directors, choreographers, or circus artists chosen for their artistic quality and their ability to guide them in a creative process. These situations aim to expose the student to original artistic languages that they can use to express their creativity while being aware of the entire creative group they are part of.
From February 14th to 17th, 2024, at 8:00 pm.
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Direction: Hanna Mampuys / THERE THERE Company
Sound creation and external eye: Toon Van Gramberen
Production direction: Benoît Escarmelle
Technical direction: Jean-François Keller
General stage management: Sarah Faucon
Photography and teaser: Stanislav Dobak
Production: ESAC
Message to the sleeping volcanoes is both a constant celebration of our lives and a manifesto of confronting our realities. A song to soothe and a cry to awaken. In a succession of scenes, bodies experience domination and submission, exuberance and calm, joy and pain. Seventeen performers bound by the imprint of gestures, in constant search of emancipation. Directed by Breno Caetano, it embodies a humanity that continues to distort the ordinary.
In supervised collective projects, students are confronted with directors, choreographers, or circus artists selected for their artistic quality and ability to lead them in a creative process. These situations aim to expose the student to original artistic languages that they can use to express their creativity while being aware of the entire creative group they are evolving with.
To book, send an email to: invitations@esac.be
Concept, direction & circusography: Breno Caetano
Set design: Xavier Peltier
Music: Gio Megrelishvili
Teaser & pictures: Nathan Ishar
Lighting: Valentin Boucq
Technical support: Jean-François Keller & Sarah Faucon
Production: ESAC
A collective creation resulting from reflections and confrontations: what are our particularities? What is our originality? Our individuality? What is this relationship that binds us to the group, to the common, to the collective, to the crowd?
Confrontation with others, and the relationship with oneself. Happiness as a generic subject, highlighted by the health context.
The representation is intended to be an outcome, the fruit of these individual influences and the chance moments of creation.
Directed by Angel Ramos.
FOLKFolk is a project about reality, derision and essential action. Artists and spectators occupy the empty space together and the “ceremony” can begin. The apparatus becomes the adored totem, the central axis of the celebration. The deities are summoned and open the door to trance and suspension. The bull and the wrestler dive into a frenzied dance. Magic of gesture at the heart of circus action.
directed by Reynaldo Ramperssad
FOLKFolk is a project about reality, derision and essential action. Artists and spectators occupy the empty space together and the “ceremony” can begin. The apparatus becomes the adored totem, the central axis of the celebration. The deities are summoned and open the door to trance and suspension. The bull and the wrestler dive into a frenzied dance. Magic of gesture at the heart of circus action.
directed by Reynaldo Ramperssad
If your eye were sharper, you would see everything in motionÉSAC, Cirqu’Conflex and the Hendrick Van Der Zee company (HVDZ) are inviting residents of Anderlecht and non-profit organizations to create together a film-show called “If your eye were sharper, you would see everything moving”
The concept of vigil is the starting point of this creation. The vigil is a 15-day residency where the artistic team meets the inhabitants of Anderlecht, records testimonies, offers artistic interventions – made of words, gestures, and images – and integrates their daily landscapes and their places of life. The artists will roam the streets, knock on doors, read texts, dance in the street and invite the public to attend the show born from all these encounters…
The goal is to create a show with the second year ESAC students, ensure the transmission of Vigil techniques to the students and produce a film show at the end of the residency. A film with and for the people met during the residency.
A show will be presented to you from January 30 to February 3, 2019 at L’ESAC. It will be the result of a 10-day residency and will combine acrobatics, texts, dances, videos and meetings.
You can follow the adventures and articles of this creation on the HVDZ company blog:
www.hvdz.org/blog
Free entry, reservation essential: +32 (0)2 526 79 00 // info@esac.be
TUTTITutti follows the paper score of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, on which the disciplines of second year Esac students are distributed. These are in turn solo violin, viola, cello, harpsichord, throughout the twelve movements scrupulously followed… except certain movements, placed in a dramatic situation in a more raw and wild manner. And with Charlie Degotte on orchestration, expect this so-called serious music to make you laugh a lot!
Pas de 2 chez soiSecond year workshop of the higher school of circus arts and Master Dramatic Interpretation of INSAS directed by Ingrid von Wantoch Rekowski with the collaboration of Natacha Nicora, Manolo Sellati and Philippe Vande Weghe.
Inspired by Tango, by Polish director Zbigniew Rybszynski, the idea of a “body double” and “Kommunalka” (communal apartments in the Soviet Union), Pas de deux chez soi brings together students under the leadership of Ingrid von Wantoch Rekowski of INSAS and ESAC. Actors and circus performers come together in a common logic of repetition and routine, carrying musicality; in a new physical language, because it is always intertwined with the duet partner; and in a trajectory between constant promiscuity and multiple solitudes.
Jacques Brel Auditorium – Céria Campus
Rue Emile Gryzon, 1 – 1070 Brussels
Free entry, reservation essential:
+32 2 675 68 84 / info@esac.be
Second year workshop of the Higher School of Circus Arts and students of the music field of the Royal Conservatory of Liège. Directed by Christophe Morisset.
In the circus as in music, the soloist’s performance must deal with the unavoidable reality of cooperation. For the duration of a show, thirty students combine their own specialties and their high technicality based on complementarity, community and solidarity. Without diminishing their individualities, they offer an orchestral vision of artistic practice, like a metaphor for a better possible world. A utopia ? No, more a question of choice.
Free entry, reservation essential: +32 2 526 79 00 / info@esac.be
Presentation at the Théâtre de Liège on May 18, 2018
The Line 8Collective show by second year students of the Higher School of Circus Arts directed by Simon Thierrée
Movements
The movement of the air vibrates the vocal cords and causes the leaves to fall from a tree.
In English, or in Spanish, move and move are one and the same word. Music knows how to do that, it “moves” something in us, that’s its greatest power.
The music of movement.
Symphonic
A symphony is 4 movements: the first is the most important, it constitutes the heart. The 2nd is slower, calmer. The 3rd, shorter and more nervous and finally the last, grandiose.
Well, that was back then, now we can do what we want.