ARMOUR

Arno Ferrera and Gilles Polet (Belgium)

60 min | 15+

“It is not true that men are unwilling to change. It is true that many men are afraid to change. It is true that masses of men have not even begun to look at the ways patriarchy keeps them from knowing them- selves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving.

To know love, men must be able to let go the will to dominate. They must be able to choose life over death. They must be willing to change.” bell hooks

ARMOUR takes up the question of masculinity, and in particular the need to transform violence, to open up the possibility of a plural and free love.

In a language of dance and acrobatic stunts revisited, this very physical performance is at the service of a relationship with the other based on trust and respect for intimacy.

At the heart of a tri-frontal set-up, in full view of the audience, the trio of performers open up a space of necessary fragility. They pose sometimes troubling acts and questions, without provocation or inhibition, in which gentleness and self-mockery find their place, in a joyful complicity with the audience.

Artistic direction: Arno Ferrera, Gilles Polet

Project development: Anaïs Longiéras

Technical direction: Pierre-Jean Pitou Faggiani

Authors/performers: Arno Ferrera, Gilles Polet and Charlie Hession

Creative Team: Bauke Lievens, Renée Corpraij, Gaia Saitta, Frédéric Arsenault and Matthieu Goeury

Light design: Anthony Merlaud

Sound creation: Raphaëlle Latini

Costumes: Kasia Mielczarek

Photographer: Florian Hetz

Video: Nicky Lapierre

Booking: Anaïs Longiéras / diffusion.armour@gmail.com

Delegated production: Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Brussels, BE)

PRODUCTION

Les Halles de Schaerbeek (BE)

COPRODUCTION

Le Bateau Feu, Scène nationale de Dunkerque (FR)

Culture commune - Scène nationale du bassin minier du Pas-De Calais (FR)

Central, La Louvière (BE) / Dommelhof, Neerpelt (BE)

La Maison de la Culture, Tournai (BE)

Le Sirque, Pole National Cirque, Nexon (FR)

Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie - La Brèche, Cherbourg (FR)

Viernulvier, Gand (BE)

Le Prato, Pôle National Cirque, Lille (FR)

Festival Perspectives, Sarrebrück (DE)

Fonds Transfabrik, fonds franco-allemand pour le spectacle vivant

Le Tandem Scène Nationale

La Coop asbl + Shelter Prod with the support of taxshelter.be, ING and taxshelter du gouvernement fédéral belge

WITH THE SUPPORT OF

Féderation Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service Général de la Création Artistique – Service des Arts Forains, du Cirque et de la Rue (BE)

LaGeste (Les ballets C de la B + kabinet k), Gand (BE)

Le centre culturel suisse - CCS Paris (FR)

Pianofabriek, Bruxelles (BE)