FRAGAN GEHLKER, ALEXIS AUFFRAY & MAROUSSIA DIAZ VERBÈKE Le Vide

Pictures © Alan Guichaoua

A hard-to-classify, strangely intense show, halfway between an ostensible rehearsal and a finished piece, Le vide (The Void) emerged in 2009 in Châlons-en-Champagne, France, from a training session in a discipline of radical simplicity: the vertical rope. This project aims to illustrate the absurdity of this line of work and also the way to become free of it.

Fragran Gehlker, an artist specialising in vertical rope, comes from a family of acrobats and has appeared with several companies. Alexis Auffray, violinist and sound engineer, had worked with Gehlker in another show before taking part in this project. The circus artist Maroussia Diaz Verbèke has collaborated with Fragran on the dramaturgy on several occasions.

Writted by Fragan Gehlker, acrobat / Music creation Alexis Auffray / Dramaturgy Maroussia Diaz Verbèke / Based on an original idea of Fragan Gehlker / Creating lights Clément Bonnin / Costume Léa Gadbois-Lamer / General technical Adrien Maheux / Diffusion Anna Tauber / Administration Roselyne Burger

Coproduction La Verrerie, Pôle National des Arts du Cirque Languedoc-Roussillon, Alès; La Cascade, Maison des Arts du Clown et du Cirque, Pôle National des Arts du Cirque, Bourg-Saint-Andéol; Le Cirque Jules Verne, Pôle National des Arts du Cirque Picardie, Amiens; Le Centre National des Arts du Cirque (CNAC), Châlons-en-Champagne