There are round shapes (balls of all sizes) and squares (screens, tables, in all sorts of materials) and, in the middle, two idiots who make the former bounce on the latter. They don't look like much but they are gifted in the art of the ricochet. Very concentrated, they know how to play the flute with their nose or play squash with guitars used as rackets. And when they hold the instruments the right way, that works as well. Their work aims at establishing original, unexpected connections of forms, directions and materials. So well that the way these forms, directions and materials are used can be questioned. We could talk about the poetry of instructions for use, digressions on "how that works - or doesn't work", leaps from one subject to the other as untimely as they are treacherous, but this series of experiments, between video, sounds, installations, sport and concert only aims at raising larger questions on contemporary life while having fun. What Antoine Defoort and Julien Fournet define as "hetero?geneous cross-disciplinary performances in which the jackass co-exists with the hunk and the tragic mixes with the incongruous". ADB
Distribution
conceived and performed by
Antoine Defoort et Julien Fournet
light Jean-François Philips, Joëlle Reyns
sound François Breux
Production
production L'Amicale de production (ex-Frietsoep)
coproduction L'L-Lieu de recherche et d'accompagnement pour la jeune création de Bruxelles, Le Vivat Scène conventionnée d'Armentières
avec le soutien de la Malterie (Lille), de Wallonie Bruxelles International (WBI), de l'Agence Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre/Danse, de la DRAC - Nord pas de Calais
