CNAC 2021

Acro-dance and acrobatics, Washington trapeze, Chinese pole, balance on bicycle, static trapeze, corde lisse, acrobatic lifts, wheel gymnastics, straps, cloud swing and juggling: a 32^nd promotion made up of fifteen students, seven nationalities and twelve circus disciplines, under the leadership of director and choreographer Raphaëlle Boitel. In a chiaroscuro universe, the bodies meet and become twirling vectors of emotion. An organic and visceral show whose writing is based on virtuosity, poetry, and connection between beings.

“Deployed in the three dimensions of space and a
chiaroscuro universe where the light chisels the bodies,
fifteen young circus artists-in-becoming will seize their marquee.
An organic, visceral and psychoactive show whose writing will be
based on virtuosity, poetry, and a connection between beings.
Fifteen unusual personalities, fifteen bodies with exceptional abilities,
fifteen combined atoms that will be the synapses between the
spectator’s emotions.
Facing the void, the unknown, in discovering their aptitudes
or the fragility of balance, they will sketch out man’s singularities,

the beauty of letting go and the strength we have
to send our limits flying.”

Raphaëlle Boitel