Oral Presentation - Marine - Le sort du dedans

Oral Presentation - Marine

LE SORT DU DEDANS, BARO D’EVEL CIRK COMPANY

What I want to cover today is the contemporary circus act « Le Sort du Dedans » by the Baro d’Evel Cirk Company. I want to speak about three points: the history of this play and the characters, then, the space and the architecture of this circus top, and finally give an example of one scene I think interesting. 

First, history and characters:

There are five actors: Blaï is an acrobat, Thibaud is a double bass player, Camille is a singer and an acrobat. There are also the horse (Bonito) and the double bass considered as the others characters. The story of this play is about the research of harmony between these five characters. In a very small space, they are here, together, and try to understand them. In slow movements, in speed, in arguments or in sweet caresses, each tries to take gradually the place of another one. 

Secondly, space and architecture of the circus top:

This circus top is specific and had been built especially for this play, and no other, because it contributes, in one hand to understand the play, in an other hand to enable the horse gallop all around the audience and surround it. So, there are three different spaces in the top:

-          Number 1: a central stage which measures five meters across and where a lot of scenes are performed. It’s intentionally a very small stage, in the heart of the top, which is intimate and near to the audience.

-          Number 2: there are rows of benches all around the central stage, where audience is seat down and which measure twelve meters.

-          Number 3: a large track behind benches which measures eighteen meters and enables the horse to gallop.  

We can say that this circus top is an interior world. It is like a blood cell, a human cell, with its different layers. For example, the central stage is like the nucleus of the cell, where all important things happened. The top tarpaulin is like a skin which protects everybody.  And in this top there are life, sounds, movements, lights, shadows, like in a human cell.

Third part, I want to explain you my favorite scene:

It’s when Camille and Bonito are galloping on the track and Thibaud is playing the double bass in the center of the stage. The perfect rhythm of the horse hooves gives the rhythm to the music. In the same time, Camille speaks and sings. There are finally four characters in this scene and everything is in harmony even if characters don’t see among themselves/ each other. Furthermore, sensations are very strong for the audience. Sound is everywhere: behind when the horse goes past, in front of us with the music, far away when the horse is on the other side of the top, and everywhere at the same time thanks to mikes (Camille and Bonito breathing for example) etc… like in a cocoon. 

To summarize and conclude:

This circus act is about the research of harmony between five totally different kinds of characters: humans, animal and musical instrument.

The architecture and the space of the circus top contribute to understand what happen between them. It’s like a human cell, which means intimate and living, where the meeting takes place.