Cirque Le Roux embarks on the adventure of producing shows by associate artists!
Because Cirque Le Roux has always had the project of accompanying other artists, Allan Sartori’s first creation is the occasion for the company to experiment the concept of associate artist, in order to defend their aesthetics of “cinema-circus” on the contemporary scene.
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr is a fascinating figure, at the crossroads of war, the world of cinema, luxury and inventions that still exist today even in our telephones. Taking the opposite path of Georges Méliès (magician and inventor of special effects for the cinema), Allan Sartori is inspired by special effects to twist reality into a scene thanks to Magie Nouvelle, in order to revisit the story of this woman. The stage becomes a place of all possibilities: to give life to Hedy’s brilliant and crazy inventions. Rediscover the rhythm and music of her exchanges with her pianist friend Georges. To relive moments of cinema by freeing oneself from the limits of the stage, to twist reality and make two German spies appear in search of her inventions… Impossible changes, magic, flights of fancy, unrealistic duels and stunts, Hedy Lamarr is a hymn to invention and the unexpected.
Five colorful characters will love, challenge and kill each other in this closed-door setting for the next thirty-two hours. The elegant Hedy Lamarr, her best pianist friend Georges, two German spies disguised as American journalists and an invisible but surprising assistant are the protagonists of this play which invents an episode from the life of the inventor. Like a painting by Tarantino, the blood will flow on their powder pink three-piece suits and the shots, like in the best cartoons, will have the ability to undress our characters, going from an evening gown to a nightie in just a few shots.
ALLAN SARTORI
Trained at the National Circus School of Châtellerault and then at the Superior School of Circus Arts of Brussels, Allan tours the world as a Korean rocker acrobat. With his trio DAC, he joins Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Monti, Cirque Roncalli, and participates in Le Plus Grand Cabaret du Monde. He won several medals, including the gold medal at the International Circus Festival of Wiesbaden, the silver medal and the audience award at the Sol y Circo Festival, and the bronze medal at the Wuqiao Festival (China) and the Monte Carlo Circus Festival. In 2015, he joined the 10th promotion of the « Magie Nouvelle” training at the CNAC (Chalons en Champagne), supervised by Raphael Navarro and Valentine Losseau (Compagnie 14:20, initiators of the new magic movement). After this training, he formed the company Wat&Wam with Pedro Miguel Silva. This company works between 2017 and 2021 essentially as an outside look at magic. In its portfolio, Wat&Wam counts L’art total by Gazole Théâtre, Anatomie du Néant by the company Chambre 5, Mon toit du monde by the Cie Silence et Songe, Monsieur X by Mathilda May with Pierre Richard and original music by Ibrahim Maalouf (Molière 2020 for the best one-man show), Mars 2037 by Pierre Guillois and several Chinese productions (Beijing/Shanghai).
FIRST SHOW SCHEDULED ON OCTOBER 13th, 2023 IN SOUSTONS (ESPACE ROGER HANIN)!
Estimated running time 1h15
from 8 years
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