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Céleste

Following the unbelievable career of Celeste, an old circus artist, we become able to witness the tragicomic fate and destiny of the traditional circus, as well as the birth of the contemporary one. 

The old artists have the young Céleste live the circus of their youth… She is in turn fascinated, frightened, amazed by these terrifying tales where fierce beauty is brought to its climax in bravery ...

Terrible evocation of the traditional archaic circus, violent, hard, flirting madly with danger, and yet not disconcerted by great outbursts of tenderness. Circus where children and animals were trained ...

In the tangle of her distant memory, Céleste carries us away in the whirlwind of her distorted, sublimated memories: colored horses, gigantic elephant, big roaring and leaping beasts, extravagant trainer. It evokes the cult of the body and its prowess as well as the relentless old age and its decline!

Like Fellini who recreated the sea with deliberately artificial means, our ambition is to create a fantasized circus thanks to the magic of optical effects: colored shadows like a gigantic magic lantern and oversized puppets, a clever mix of modern and modern. old to reproduce appalling beauty.

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Staging director: Geneviève de Kermabon

Scenography - costumes: Laurence Forbin

Original music: Stéphane Leach, Pierre Ragu

Fearsome tamer: Joe Sheridan

Old horsewoman: G de Kermabon

Young acrobat: Simon Martin

Lyric singer : Patrick Vilet

Lighting director: Célio Ménard

Bestiary builder: Olivier Sion

Illustrations: Laurence Forbin

Production: LE KSAMKA

Co-productions: ARCHAOS POLE CIRQUE MARSEILLE -THEATRE DU SOLEIL- MAISON DE LA CULTUTURE D'AMIENS - POLE CIRQUE CHERBOURG - ACADEMIE FRATELLINI - TEMAL PRODUCTIONS

Aid from the DRAC Ile de France

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Geneviève de Kermabon has always led the double life of director and acrobat. Acrobat in the street to earn a living, she adapts the Strada after Fellini which she stages at the Present Theater (now Paris Villette), at the Carreau du temple, at the Sant Arcangelo festival.

Trapeze artist at the Magic Circus, she wrote an adaptation of Freaks (published by Actes Sud) with the gracious collaboration of JC Carrière. She staged Freaks in the Printemps des Comédiens, the Avignon festival (In), at the Bouffes du Nord, two years of European tour ...

She embarks on the writing of a saga of a killer of women, mixing on the stage 16 actors of very diverse origins, circus artists, actors of cinema, theater, musicians: Morituri, or the sailors in the arena which she directs and creates at the Printemps des comédiens, at the national theater of Chaillot and on tour.

She wrote Cirque cruel for the opening of Zèbre de Belleville ... She directed with delight Cosi fan tutte at the Gattiéres opera festival. She embarks on an adaptation of RICHAR III that she writes at the same time a vampiresque and musical elucubration The great cabaret of fear, produced and performed alternately for the Grande Halle de la Villette and at the Festival d'Avignon (IN ).

She assembles and plays three solos after interviews on desire at La Tempête, Lucernaire, TPV, Avignon.

In addition, she plays as an actress with among others: Philippe Arlaud, Jean Denis Bonan, Christophe Thiry, Stéphane Druet, Jérôme Savary, Jean Pierre Vincent, Muriel Mayette, Gérold Shuman, Philippe Adrien, Jacques Vincey, Véronique Widock, Olivier Letellier ...

She directs numerous AFDAS workshops and works as a director at the CNAC (National Conservatory of Circus Arts), at the CNSAD (National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art), at the FRATELLINI academy and at the Hall de la chanson.

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Philippe Adrien - auteur et metteur en scène français

“Geneviève is free, both in her head and in space. She puts herself at stake at the level of her body. She plays with her skin, reflects during and after.”

Libération - Portrait Geneviève de Kermabon

“A will-o'-the-wisp with a healthy dose of self-mockery, Geneviève stumbled into the theater by chance, the day a cousin asked her to replace a fellow improviser. Little Geneviève, who doesn't even dare ask for bread at the bakery, is stunned to discover that she can make people laugh.”

Libération - Portrait Geneviève de Kermabon

“At the time, Geneviève de Kermabon - who was "never afraid" - was the first woman to perform flying rope, a more perilous and violent discipline than trapeze. She also rehearsed with the dancers at the Moulin Rouge, doing somersaults in heels, and tried her hand at wrestling.”

Télérama

“Under the tutelary figure of Federico Fellini and with the complicity of the hilarious Joe Sheridan, the young acrobat Simon Martin and some pretty puppets, the woman who has never ceased to amaze us with her nerve pays a mischievous, poignant and poetic tribute to the traditional circus, where children were trained like animals. Let's salute the virtuoso exercise of a well-born soul.”

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