Creation 2022, fourth duo with Servane Guittier and Antoine Manceau, L'Empreinte (the imprint) is a dive into emotions. Surprise, laugh and tears coexist in a circular space, intimate.
A passionated by balance man who falters, a generous woman whom goodwill has to focus on her partner.
They tell us how sometimes, we build links together, and how sometimes, links are falling apart, memories are fading, making room for emptiness.
The duo weaves an intense story, with lot of humour, but also strong emotions, for a nearly mute show.
After ten years of playing with their clowns Bibeu and Humphrey, Servane Guittier and Antoine Manceau take off their red noses to visit new play modes, to pursue the aventure of the ring with new characters, still provided with their musical instruments.
An ephemeral community
L’Empreinte proposes to create an ephemeral community, where links are created, where a common reality is being lived, there, in the space of the show. We are together.
The circular, the relationship to the audience, the impromptu help of the public for the proper conduct of the show, the improvisation... everything is leading to the relationship and the sharing.
The music is at the center of the ring, the images are strong, the situations are clear and dramatic, the duo weaves step by step a story.
The show is taking place in a circular ring welcoming 118 persons, older than 12 years old.
A circular ring
The circular scenography leads to a particuliar relationship with the audience, breaking the 4th wall, it gathers the spectators in a unity of space, but also a unity of emotion and experiment.
The circular play, that we've been practicing since 2003, is for us natural, easy and indispensable !
It created, for us, a need, always stronger, to get closer to the people who came to gather, here, for a shared moment.
Le palc, chaleureux, fait de bois et de ferraille, accueille 118 personnes et quelques oiseaux de fil de fer…
L'Empreinte is a subject of a creation notebook over the double view of Emmanuel Veneau and Simon Tarsier
Where we played : 2022 - Première Le 10 février, Espace d’Albret, Nérac (47) - Lavrar o Mira e a Lagoa, Monchique, Portugal - La Mégisserie, Saint-Junien (81) - Le Mans fait son cirque (72) - Festival d’Alba-la-romaine (07) - Caen soirs d’été (14) - L’Astrada Marciac (32) - Théâtre de Bourg-en-Bresse (01) - Festival Circa, Auch (32) - 2023 - Festival les Élancées, Fos-sur-Mer (13) (Pré-achat) - L’Agora, Scène nationale de L’Essonne, Évry (91) - Festival Cirq’ônflex, Dijon (21) - Festival des 7 collines, Saint-Étienne (42) - Cergy soit ! (95) - CIAM, Aix-en-Provence (13) - Le Manège de Reims (51) - Cirque Jules Verne Amiens (80) - 2024 - Latitude 50 - Marchin, Belgique - Le Prato, Lille (59) – Tournée CIRQUÉVOLUTION :la Faïencerie, Creil (60) - Centre Culturel L’Imprévu, Saint-Ouen L’Aumône, (95) - Centre Culturel Jacques Prévert, Villeparisis (77) - Espace Germinal, Fosses (95) - Théâtre du Cormier, Cormeilles-en-parisis (95) - Espace Sarah Bernhardt, Goussainville (95) - la Batoude, Beauvais (60) - Théâtre des Sources, Fontenay-aux-roses (92) - ECAM, Kremlin-Bicêtre (94) - L’Azimut, Châtenay-Malabry (92) - Festival SPRING : L’Archipel, Granville (50) - Théâtre de saint-Lô, Saint-Lô (50) - Salle A.Bourvil, Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf (50) - Salle Simone SignoreT, Amfreville-la-Mivoie (50)- Salle Polyvalente, Saint-Pierre de Varengeville (50) - Circa, Auch (32) - Le Kiasma, Castelnau-le-Lèz (34) – Festival Multi-Pistes, Nexon (87)– Festival Chahut-Chahute, Les Mées (04) – Service Culturel de l’Université François Rabelais, Tours (37) - 2025 - Scène Nationale Passerelle, Quessoy (22) – Les Tombées de la Nuit, Rennes (35) - Trio-s Théâtre, Inzinzac-Lochrist (56) – L’Atelier Culturel, Landerneau (29) – Odysca, Biscarosse (40) – Scène Nationale Le Bateau Feu, Dunkerque (59) – Festival Les Turbulentes, Le Boulon, Vieux-Condé (59) – Pronomade(s), Carbonne et Boussens (31) – Festival Les Beaux Jours, L’Onyx, Saint-Herblain (44) - 2026 - Le Plongeoir, PNC Le Mans (72) - Le Parvis, Scène Nationale Tarbes (65) - Et Zou! Sites & Cap, Gers (32) - which means 135 shows.
Co-production :
Pronomade(s) en Haute-Garonne, Centre national des arts de la rue et de l'espace public / CIRCa Pôle National Cirque, Auch / Scène Nationale de l'Essonne, Agora-Desnos / La Cascade – Pôle National Cirque – Ardêche Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes / La Mégisserie - Scène Conventionnée Saint-Junien / Espace d'Albret - Ville de Nérac / Éclat(s) de rue - Ville de Caen / Ville de Tours - Label Rayons Frais / Ville du Mans & Pôle régional Cirque Le Mans
Support from local collectivities :
Département du Gers / Département de L’Essonne / Région Occitanie / DRAC Occitanie
Contact :
06 70 73 21 32
L'Attraction Céleste - 13, rue de la Somme - 32000 Auch - France
