Warm
Warm is an acrobatic performance done by Edward Aleman and Wilmer Marquez. For fifteen years, they have been developping a duo made of portés, hands to hands and balances. Warm represents for them the occasion to put their acrobatic discipline to the test of heat and light. During the 40 minuts of performance, the spotlights, installed closely face to face, will be switched on, producing an unbearable light and an oppressive heat. This luminous structure is extended by a wall made of mirrors.
Two men bodies in contact, in the heat, between strength and slackening, stretching, balance, seminudity, perspiration, hangings. A physical path from warmimg-up to exhaustion. Skin to skin acrobats' enemy: perspiration. The more the heat raises, the more they sweat. Their bodies are beaded with sweat, which makes a porté impossible to do. After 10 minuts, the temperature reaches 45ºC. The clothes are soaked. The weaken bodies slip, fall down, try to hold despite the heavy heat. The actress Séverine Ragaigne is with them. She performs a monologue, a sonorous poem signed by Ronan Chéneau.
A declaration of love, a young woman's dream, a sexual fantasy. The heat becomes a main character. It appeals to the presence of the two acrobats, it pushes to situation to the limit to satisfy its desire of body, skin, sweat and pain.
Philippe Chamaux, producer, administrator • les-independances@orange.fr
Production: Rictus Company
Co-production: Les Subsistances, Lyon • L’Hippodrome, Scène Nationale de Douai
Acknowledgements: La Brèche, Pôle national des arts du cirque de Basse-Normandie
Support: Conseil régional de Basse-Normandie • Conseil général du Calvados (ODACC) • City of Caen
The Rictus Company receives funds from the Ministry of Culture and Communication.
David Bobee is an asociated artist at the Théâtre National de Chaillot and at the Hippodrome, Scène nationale de Douai. He is an artistic associate at the Gogol Theater in Moscow.
Installation and direction: David Bobee
Text: Ronan Chéneau
With: Edward Aleman, Wilmer Marquez (acrobats) and Séverine Ragaigne (actress)
Lights and installation: Stéphane Babi Aubert
Music: Frédéric Deslias
Construction: Salem Ben Belkacem
Stage management: Thomas Turpin
Assistant: Nina Chataigner
*Scheduled in the context of the Hybrides Festival
