CIRKO POLIS

About the performance

You don't just suddenly let yourself be carried by a stranger. It takes time, a delicate search for intimacy and special attention. Alexandre Fray and André Rosenfeld Sznelwar, acrobatic bases, take it (in turns) to meet women of grandmotherly age.

With these elderly women who have never, or rarely, been carried, those acrobats question the stakes of a discipline that the horizon of prowess often leaves in the shadows. 

In each performance, they take four or five new women, aged 4 times 20, into fragile aerial duets, and explore our relationships of trust and dependence, stubbornly pushing back the body's possibilities. An ode to stepping into the void, from these extraordinary moments, when women old enough to be grandmothers accept for the first time to be carried off the ground.