ConTempo festival 2026 ''Epiphytes'' | Cie des Chaussons Rouges (Belgija)
Eternally
over the seasons,
between land and sky,
in shadow and light
the forests breathe,
ground us in the living,
lift up our imagination,
reveal another way of thinking about the world.
Aerial plants that climb on their host without exhausting their resources. Looking vertically for the light, in the middle of the mist perched between woods and interior forest.
Epiphytes, plants that grow on trees without being parasites, provided the name and inspiration for this unusual play, which takes place on a 5-metre-high metal structure.
The plants do not touch the ground but grow on other plants or on support structures, without tapping into their hosts' nutrient sources. The four acrobats holding long metal poles are faced with the challenge to settle and animate the structure through movement.
An aesthetic dance with objects unfolds, a tightrope act of strength, dynamism and energy. Épiphytes presents a forest that is both real and a fantasy, timeless, mysterious and with a thousand facets: a place of encounters and multi-sensory communication, a space of distraction and fear, a place to play and an expression of freedom.
Cie des Chaussons Rouges was created in 2012 in Brussels by the high wire dancers Audrey Bossuyt and Marta Lodoli. The company interprets the circus as a visual art.
Through body language, it creates ephemeral, sober and elegant works that explore notions of time and space and examine how society relates to them.
The influence of contemporary dance and the sculptural installation are essential elements, the first in the body language of the tightrope walkers, the latter in the construction and operation of the tightrope walker structures and how they interact within the space.
Performer and co-artistic director: Audrey Bossuyt
Performer and co-artistic director: Marta Lodoli
Interpreter: Mami Kitagawa
Interpreter: Silvia Pezzarossi or Coralie Meinguet
Staging direction help: Karin Vyncke
Original music and sound creation: Quentin Dujardin
Costume creation: Marta Lodoli
Decorative painting: Flora Hubot
Creation of the cloud: Pierre Nouneberg
Technique: Joppe Wouters
Sound management: Yannick Castagna, Léo Schemmel
Outside eyes: Julia Brisset and Chloé Mourra
Delegated production: Mars,Mons Arts de la Scène
Drawings: Aline Breucker
Logo: Isabel Graham
The presentation of the performance at the Užutrakis Manor Homestead is organized and funded by the Trakai Historical National Park Directorate, with support from the Wallonie-Bruxelles International.
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