tCHERNOCIRCUS CREAtION 2016

AtOmIc EquEstRiAN cONFERENCE

SYNOPSIS

An Illustrious equestrian circus family from the deepest reaches of Eastern Siberia have come to the welcoming arms of Europe to join us. Even If the mishaps of the trip weren’t already enough, the family has arrived safe and sound to share with us all their strange customs, their acrobatic acts and their totally weird animals. A strange “otherness” that reminds us all of the need to recognise and embrace the differences in others.

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DIRECtOR’S NOtE

The art of burlesque Les Goulus company is a french comedians troupe. Our work is mainly based on the actor's performance and takes its roots on burlesque play more particularly. It is a game of intentions labeled with bodily commitment that we put at the service of our shows. This game offers to see and touch the heart by laughter, a game that allows us to reach a wide range of audiences in the hexagonal and international public space, sometimes with text, sometimes without. From this base, we wanted that TchernOcircuS – Atomic equestrian cabaret , be a mix of expertise : The art of puppetry Since a long time, horses are represented in our plays. Fifteen horses make up our team. They served in various shows. Since the first horse created twenty years ago to the most recent created this year, we explored different fasteners and handling system. To go further in the design and manipulation (puppet as extension of the body), two puppeteers were invited to think about making our horses irradiated. The challenge is to give life to the lightest possible horses, malleable, misshapen but balanced, that give the impression of a merger between man and animal, really not knowing in the end who is the rider or where is the horse… Supervised by our costume designer, the confection of the horses took place simultaneously to the costumes - crucial elements in the visual composition of our shows. Indeed, they are a powerful strength for the suggested imagination. The art of feat In order to respect the tradition of equestrian circus, we wanted to work with an acrobat, complementing the circus skills already present in the team so that expertises are combined to propose a universe both funny and touching.

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PHOtOS © Jean-Luc Tabuteau

PHOtOs © Jean-Luc Tabuteau

tEAM

Jean-Luc Prévost Actor, writer and director since 1979 his expertise stems through different experiences in theatre, a palette ranging from clown to cabaret theatre. In 1994 he founded "Les Obsessionels" which he left in 2000 to create "Les Goulus", a company with which he’ll end up travelling to many countries in Europe and beyond. Theatre adventurer, he has greatly developed street/promenade theatre and has always created shows with contrasting worlds often in the spirit of off-the-wall humour. He is at ease playing white clown as he is with Auguste styles. Olivier Rimaud Faithful companion to the company, he’s worked with Jean-Luc Prévost since 1987. He participates in all creative new works, and plays in almost all of "Les Goulus" performances. Julien Blandino Trained in circus arts, he joined the company in 2006 on the show The Horse Screamerer then joined The Horsemen and Molière In All Its Shapes & Sizes. He created within the company Kilomètres en kilomètres with Yang Mamath, an acrobatic show in interaction with its audience. Galatée Auzanneau Trained in Netherlands, she’s a joyful acrobat who sings and draws. She is a member of the «Trio Satchok» with whom she plays urban acrobatic show through Europe. In 2014, she have a crush on Jean-Luc and her sidekicks. It is the first project that she will make with them. Laetitia Lafforgue She joined "Les Goulus" in 2003 and now provides co-directorship alongside Jean-luc Prevost. She acts in several shows with the company (MDR!, Molière In All Its Shapes & Sizes, The Super Chicks, The Horsemen). She’s in charge of keeping an objective look and providing constructive and supportive criticism for the creation of new works. She’s equally a member of "ktha company". Anne Carteau Graduated in Costume Design from the Lycée Paul Poiret, she was first trained at the Boulle school in the art of tapestry decoration. She’s continuing her training notably this winter in welding techniques. She’s been member of the Goulus team since 2012. Les Goulus now part of the residents of the Villa Mais d’ici cross paths with other residents where connections are made and happen quite naturally. Thus we have complemented the design team with: Chloé Bucas Costume designer, puppeteer, trumpeter, Chloe has more than one trick up her sleeve! She regularly works with "Les Grandes Personnes", "Les Petits Zefs" and even "Les Lapins Stars". Yoann Cottet A Puppeteer who fuses aesthetics with mechanical precision and is naturally attracted to metalwork, including wire sculpting with piano wire and ornamental smith work with sheets of steel, copper and brass. Yoann works regularly with "Les Grandes Personnes" and created the company "Écarquillée".

tECHNICAL

Playing area: Access for a Van 15m x 12m x 5m, flat and solid ELECTRICITY 1 x 16 A MATERIALS TO BE PROVIDED 1 PA (power suitable to the audience’s size) with 2 wireless mics or lapel mics Playing conditions: Audience : All age Capacity : As many as the public space allows, within reason! Duration : About 45 minutes The show is also played indoors , the technical sheet is being prepared .

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PRESS

17/06/2015 l’Est républicain - Lunéville: Les Goulus return to the castle for the equestrian events They’ve become the darlings of the audience, «the» mascot for the Rencontres Équestres regularly returning with their strange horses and their completely off-the-wall humour. Les Goulus are back at the castle with a new show they’ll be creating in Lunéville before hitting the road as they did with The Horsemen – which they presented not only here but in 29 countries including Australia, Iran and South Korea no less. Around Jean-Luc Prévost – the Artistic Director of the troupe – there are four others helping to refine this new work as part of a residency they started last week. Time for Julien Blandino, Patrick Geslin, Yang Mamath and Olivier Rimaud to don their horse’s legs and slip into huge Dadaesque equine heads. For fifteen years Les Goulus have been touring their shows from town to town and the Lunévillians will remember The Horse Screamerer as well which was also presented on the occasion of the Rencontres Équestres. However horses are not the only source of inspiration for these actors based in Aubervilliers whose company’s name gives homage to the infamous Goulue transcended by Toulouse Lautrec. If they’ve returned again this year to Lunéville it is because Jean-Luc Prévost and his troupe love the spirit of a festival that mixes horses and theatre. A festival they promote during their tours, ensures the Artistic Director. So what are they going to tell, to show us this weekend in the gardens of the castle? The new work is entitled TchernOcircuS, it speaks of paradise, of extraordinary creatures half-human half-horse and an ethnologist at once captivated by the aesthetics of these hybrid beings and amazed by their prowess and their humour. Jean-Luc Prévost will say no more except that TchernOcircuS, will blend the genres between poetry and burlesque. We’ll know more on Saturday and Sunday at the passage’s alley in the castle’s park, where Les Goulus will give their presentation at 2pm, 4pm and 6pm.

Catherine Ambrosi

thE cOmpANy

The company defends an interactive theatre with its audience and questions the traditional role of the actor by giving him the capacity to intervene anywhere in any place through engaging contemporary writing. "Les Goulus" have many shows in their repertoire: The Cupids, The Tall Dwarves, The Spiders, The Krishnous, The Horsemen and more recently Molière In All Its Shapes & Sizes, all as Promenade or Street Theatre work. MDR!, The Horse Screamerer, The Battle of The Bands (co-created with the band "SNOB"), Blancass ou p’tit café ? and Pinard et philo de comptoir as staged shows. Not forgetting Yellow Hand in The City a one-off phenomenon, The Super Chicks created in 2012, The Last Race and Tomorrow I’m playing at the Olympia created in 2013 and Kartoons and TchernOcircuS - Atomic equestrian cabaret created in 2016. The company also enjoys recognition abroad, allowing them to continuously evolve their shows through an interaction with varied audiences, in different languages, while always questioning, inventing and sometimes defending their relationship with public spaces.

The company is : Supported by Region Ile-de-France Beneficiary of Artistic and Cultural Permanence in Ile-de-France Member of the National Federation of Street Arts Recognised as a Solidarity Entreprise

The show is co-produced by :

Region Ile-de-France The Luneville Château des Lumières The General Council of Meurthe-et-Moselle

With the support of :

SPEDIDAM Société de perception et de distribution des droits des artistes-interprètes La Villa Mais d’Ici (Aubervilliers, 93) The Community Center Wangari Maathai (Paris 20e) The Community Center La Tour des Dames (Paris, 9e) The Community Center Louis Lumière (Paris, 20e) La Constellation // La Lisière (Bruyères-le-Châtel, 91) The equestrian Center la Chabraque (Castanet, 12) Nil Obstrat (Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône, 95)

Villa Mais d’ici 77, rue des cités 93 300 Aubervilliers - France T : +33 (0)1 48 58 78 78 - +33 (0)6 60 13 43 65 [email protected] www.lesgoulus.com