" The wrinkle is there, unalterable, the shiver of a dream, an imperceptible break. It divides and connects, it binds. It is a line created by geometry and chance. " Yves Peyré, PLIS ET DÉPLIS – 2011
A circus artist and two visual artists come together over paper. Thousands of years old, this raw material has acquired multiple identities. From the blank page to the crumpled draft to this page in your hands, paper carries our innermost thoughts and universal truths: a witness to the everyday and our daydreams, our teamwork and our individuality, our culture and our history. What else can it tell us?
Seen through the prism of the circus, paper can be a fascinating playground full of surprises, challenges, and opportunities to listen. A unique conversation takes place between the suspended body and the paper that has become a rope to hang from—and on to.
Is this material that seems so delicate to us really that weak? Can weakness harbor unsuspected strengths? Which is more vulnerable, the suspended body or the paper?
Between flesh and raw material, the ground and the air, we dive into a landscape that is continually built, torn down, rebuilt. Layer by layer, the body and the paper travel together in a fragment of our changing world.
At once a captivating beauty and a distressing sound, paper becomes more than a mirror.
A projection of our inner worlds, it embodies the poetic expression of the living, searching for its vulnerability and, even more than that, its ability to transform.
Lucie Bonnet and Inbal Ben Haim
Inbal Ben Haim, Israeli
Born in Jerusalem in 1990, Inbal Ben Haim grew up in the Israeli countryside. After studying visual arts, she discovered the circus in 2004 at the Free Dome Project then the Shabazi Circus. The call of heights and creating with her body led her to specialize first in the static trapeze, then the rich minimalism of the aerial rope.
In 2011 she left her homeland to follow her artistic path in France, furthering her research through important artistic encounters and training: first at the Centre Régional des Arts du Cirque PACA – Piste d’Azur, then the Centre National des Arts du Cirque in Châlons-en-Champagne, from which she graduated in December 2017 (29th graduating class). In Summer 2018, she premiered Racine(s) (Root(s)), which developed from her meeting the musician, composer, and arranger David Amar and the director Jean Jacques Minazio.
At the same time, she developed a teaching method for therapeutic circus and worked in various contexts in Israel and France. By blending circus, dance, theater, improvisation, and visual arts, Ben Haim has created her own form of poetic expression. Largely inspired by the human bond made possible by the stage, the ring, and the street, she aims to create strong connections between the audience and the artist, the intimate and the spectacular, the earth and air, and the here and there.
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Domitille Martin, France
Domitille Martin is a visual artist who sculpts composite materials and creates artistic installations in space. Her work is inspired by nature and deals with the transformation of animals, plants, minerals, and humans. Since graduating from École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2015, she has worked with performance and circus artists, bringing creations to life for the likes of Nina Harper, Kamma Rosenbeck and Quentin Folcher. She designs sets for the choreographic shows of Anna Rodriguez, Cie Le jardin des délices, and worked with Inbal Ben Haim in Racine(s). Since 2018 she has been artist in residence with La Source, a non-profit organization, and took part in the 2019 “Création en Cours” program run by Ateliers Médicis and the French Ministry of Culture. In May 2021, she created a monumental paper work called “La Tornade” with Alexis Mérat. It is installed under the Skylight at Les Subsistances. Martin is a Pierre Gautier-Delaye prize winner and was in residence at Cité Internationale des Arts from 2020 to 2021. domtillemartin.com
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Alvaro Valdes, Chile
Alvaro Valdes, a circus artist and dancer, is a graduate of the Circo del Mundo school in Chili. He has worked on numerous circus and dance projects as director and outside eye. He co-directed “La Texture” as an interpretive piece (circus, visual arts, and fine crafts) with José Luis Cordova, then with Charles Dubois founded Compagnie ÑO, which will create “Girafe”. Emotional memory is his primary creative resource. He examines the relationship between fluidity and acrobatics on aerial equipment. This research is motivated by his intent to organically build and inhabit a body/object. Alvaro currently works with Cie Lunatic, Cie Barks, the theater dance collective Poetic Punkers, La Muse en Circuit, Inbal Ben Haïm, and the Nok dance collective.
Creative and Production Team
With: Inbal Ben Haim, Domitille Martin and Alvaro Valdes
Conception & Artistic Direction: Inbal Ben Haim
Artistic Collaboration, Scenography, Accessories: Domitille Martin
Artistic Collaboration, Engineer – Paper Handling: Alexis Mérat
Light Creation: Marie-Sol Kim
Sound Creation: Max Bruckert
Additional Original Music: Caroline Chaspoul & Eduardo Henriquez (Nova Materia)
Costumes Creation: Clémentine Monsaingeon & Anaïs Heureaux
Outside Eyes & Dramaturgy: Eleonora Gimenez & Shahar Dor
Direction Assistantship: Kamma Rosenbeck
Artistic & Technical Collaboration: Sophie Lascombes
Objects Handling Advices: Inbal Yomtovian
Artistic Advices: Elodie Perrin
Technical General Management: Yann Guénard
Production Management: Lucie Brosset
Production: Les SUBS – lieu vivant d’expériences artistiques, Lyon
With the support of the Hermès Corporate Foundation as part of the New Settings program
Coproduction & Residence: Le CCN2 – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble; La Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie | La Brèche à Cherbourg - Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf; Le Théâtre de Rungis; ARCHAOS – Pôle National Cirque Méditerranée, Marseille; Les utoPistes, Lyon ; 6 mettre – Pôle de création dédié aux arts vivants, Fresnes; Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde, Bagneux, CDN d’Orléans / Centre-Val de Loire, Circusnext
Supports: La DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ; La Région Ile-de-France – FoRTE, Fonds Régional pour les Talents Émergents ; La SACD - Processus Cirque 2020 ; La Nationale des papeteries; Gascogne Papier
Thanks: Piste d’Azur - Centre Régional des Arts du Cirque; Le CNAC - Centre National des Arts du Cirque Châlons-en-Champagne; ICiMa – Chaire d’Innovation Cirque et Marionnette; ON - Center for Contemporary Circus Création, Israël; Orit Nevo and Lucie Bonnet
Pli is the prize winner of Circusnext 2020 – 2021, project co-financed by the Europe Creative program of the European Union.
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