Circo
Artistic Director: Stéphane Girard | Creative Director: Camille Beaumier | Circus Collaborator: Benoit Belleville | Aerial Rigging Manager: Rémy Legeay | Technical Coordinator: Damien Fantova | Lighting: Yann Champelovier I Staff: Joseph Premoselli, Titouan Rabelo, Julie Engelmann | Performers: Stéphane Bernier, Anne Pribat, Céline Li, Eva Szwarcer | Thanks to: Saison Gatti / Le PÔLE, Soutenu par Lieux Publics – CNAREP (Centre National des arts de la rue et de l’espace public) & pôle européen de production, dans le cadre du programme ὁδός – les chemins and city of Arles, Francia.
Gratte-Ciel
The company
A world in the heights
The company was founded in 2013 under the direction of Stéphane Girard and is known for its outdoors aerial performances. Taking elements from the circus and extreme sports, their productions stand out for their monumental installations. Gratte-Ciel innovates with the use of technology and aerial challenges framed in the poetics of light and the appropriation of vertical space. It creates shows full of color and movement, where public spaces blend in as a backdrop.
-For its call to local artists, highlighting the collaborative value within the arts. The show will have Chilean acrobats working alongside one of the most prominent international aerial circus companies. There is no admission fee for the performance that will tour different parts of the country.
-For an innovative proposal that takes circus art to the heights with impressive staging, entering into the public space with a display that astonishes those who witness the show. The French online publication Furies refers to the company's work as "aerial shows that mix circus, public space and outdoor culture. This company imagines projects that combine disciplines and techniques taken from the arts and extreme sports for their creations and appropriate the urban space."
-For Gratte-Ciel's trajectory, which has somehow turned into a synonym of the extraordinary, due to its large structures and aerial acrobatics. As highlighted by the French magazine Fest on the occasion of one of the company’s many performances: “For 25 years, Gratte-Ciel has been developing techniques to push new limits and open spaces by the circus. Making their performance look perfect is the merit of a multi-skilled team made up of technicians, climbers, circus artists and dancers.”
New Circus: Also called Contemporary Circus or Nouveau Cirque. It´s a performing arts genre developed in the second half of the 20th century. It is characterized, among other elements, by placing a story at the center of the creation, which is told through different circus skills and disciplines. The focus lies on creating an aesthetic impact and a staging that allows a plot to be told, at times using theater techniques.
Urban Intervention: Artistic experiences aimed at creating new understandings of the relationship between the social and the spatial, between the city and its citizens. The locations are intervened through multiple forms: video projections, sculptural artifacts, performances, posters and graffiti. An urban intervention that seeks to forge new interactions and experiences of seeing, understanding and inhabiting an urban space.
-Watch the interview with Rouge! director Stéphane Girard about Gratte-Ciel's work here.
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Rouge!
De Gratte-Ciel | Directed by Stéphane Girard
- France
- No dialogues
- 30 minutes
- Todo público
A scarlet-colored show, filled with the impressive ground to the air acrobatics, developed in collaboration with Chilean artists.
Created in 2020 as part of the Regard Sur Rue Festival (France), this acrobatic show taking place in the air is like a large music box full of tricks. A group of artists shall deploy their skills amidst a scarlet whirlwind and pulsating music. Full of vertigo and monumental feats, in Rouge! acrobats and dancers intertwine and overlap in a compound that descends from the heights to create a spectacular eruption among the audience.
Within the framework of Santiago a Mil 2022, this reinvention of the spectacle emerges from the collective work between the French company Gratte-Ciel, specialized in aerial circus, and Chilean artists and technicians who developed an unprecedented live performance. Accompanied by an impressive installation, the acrobats will invade the public space to surprise with a unique experience.
Artistic Director: Stéphane Girard | Creative Director: Camille Beaumier | Circus Collaborator: Benoit Belleville | Aerial Rigging Manager: Rémy Legeay | Technical Coordinator: Damien Fantova | Lighting: Yann Champelovier I Staff: Joseph Premoselli, Titouan Rabelo, Julie Engelmann | Performers: Stéphane Bernier, Anne Pribat, Céline Li, Eva Szwarcer | Thanks to: Saison Gatti / Le PÔLE, Soutenu par Lieux Publics – CNAREP (Centre National des arts de la rue et de l’espace public) & pôle européen de production, dans le cadre du programme ὁδός – les chemins and city of Arles, Francia.
Gratte-Ciel
The company
A world in the heights
The company was founded in 2013 under the direction of Stéphane Girard and is known for its outdoors aerial performances. Taking elements from the circus and extreme sports, their productions stand out for their monumental installations. Gratte-Ciel innovates with the use of technology and aerial challenges framed in the poetics of light and the appropriation of vertical space. It creates shows full of color and movement, where public spaces blend in as a backdrop.
-Por su convocatoria a artistas locales, que resalta el valor colaborativo dentro de las artes y que tendrá a acróbatas chilenos trabajando codo a codo con una de las compañías de circo aéreo más destacadas a nivel internacional, en un espectáculo gratuito que recorrerá distintos lugares del país.
-Por su innovadora propuesta, que lleva el arte circense a las alturas con impresionantes puestas en escena, irrumpiendo en el espacio público con un despliegue que deja atónito a quien presencie el espectáculo; esto, según el medio francés especializado Furies, que se refiere al trabajo de la compañía como “espectáculos aéreos que mezclan el circo, el espacio público y la cultura del aire libre. Esta compañía imagina proyectos que combinan disciplinas y técnicas tomadas de las artes y los deportes extremos para creaciones que se apropian del espacio urbano”.
-Por la trayectoria de Gratte-Ciel, que ha pasado a convertirse en sinónimo de lo extraordinario por sus propuestas de grandes estructuras y acrobacias aéreas, dejando un sello único, tal como resalta la revista francesa Fest con respecto a una de las tantas presentaciones de la compañía: “Durante 25 años, Gratte Ciel ha estado desarrollando técnicas para empujar nuevos límites y espacios con el circo. Hacer que la actuación parezca perfecta es el mérito de un equipo polivalente formado por técnicos, escaladores, artistas de circo y bailarines”.
Nuevo circo. También llamado Circo contemporáneo o Nouveaucirque, es un género de las artes escénicas desarrollado a partir de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y que se caracteriza, entre otras cosas, por poner al centro de la creación una historia, la que se narra a través de distintas habilidades y disciplinas circenses. El foco está puesto en crear un impacto estético y una puesta en escena que permita narrar un relato, a veces usando técnicas del teatro.
Intervención urbana: Se llama así a experiencias artísticas orientadas a crear nuevos entendimientos en torno a la relación entre lo social y lo espacial, entre la ciudad y quienes la habitan, para lo cual se intervienen lugares a través de múltiples formas: proyecciones de video, artefactos esculturales, performances, posters, graffitis. Una intervención urbana busca forjar nuevas interacciones y experiencias de ver, entender y habitar el espacio urbano.
-Revisa la entrevista realizada al director de Rouge!, Stéphane Girard, sobre el trabajo de Gratte-Ciel aquí.
En Instagram, @ciegrattelciel
En Facebook, facebook.com/ciegratteciel
Sitio web: http://cie-gratteciel.com
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