Accompany ME in "À Mesure - Handle with care"

CREATION 2024

A Cyr wheel duo show

50 minutes, 8+, language no problem

Indoor & Outdoor

Accompany ME is a circus company formed by Elena Damasio and Monika Neverauskaite.

It is a project of international influence: the performers originate from Italy and Lithuania, both educated and trained in the Netherlands and both living and working in Toulouse, France.

Through their work, the two female authors aim to offer their audience a moment of lightness in counterbalance with the more serious themes which they handle - all of this strictly in the language that circus can offer.

The company pursues the theme of gender equality as it is created and performed by two women, in an equal and non-hierarchical relationship.

ABOUT THE SHOW

“À Mesure - Handle with care” evokes the strengths and fragilities of a two-person relationship. Through the language of the Cyr wheel, two women offer a look at their intimate space, their daily life, by arming themselves with patience and playing with the passing of time. There is a wheel, there is a kitchen, there are eggs. And there are them, sensitive, true, committed. At the risk of love, they bring a comforting story to the stage, in search of a rhythm that leads them to each other.

CREDITS

Authors and performers Monika Neverauskaite & Elena Damasio

Music composition Eric Pollet & Valentin Avoiron

Outside eye and dramaturgical advice Marie Vela, Clémentine Dilé, Gildas Aleksa

Light creation Povilas Laurinaitis, Mantas Pauliukonis

Trailer Mindaugas Drigotas

Pictures Dainius Putinas, Donatas Ališauskas

Accompany ME was coproduced by the Lithuanian Council for Culture in partnership with Teatronas.

Supported by: Cirko Sapiens (LT), Latitude 50 - Pôle des arts du cirque et de la rue: www.latitude50.be, Subtopia (SE), Maison des Jonglages (FR), l’Essieu du Batut (FR), La Roseraie (BE), Ecole de cirque de Tarbes Passing, Arts Printing House (LT), MJC Croix Daurade and MJC Ponts Jumeaux, Toulouse (FR), Dialoghi – Residenze delle Arti Performative a Villa Manin 2022_2024, Udine (IT), Station Circus, Basel (CH), Festival Spoffin, Amersfoort (NL).

Funded by: Sweden-Lithuania Cooperation Fund and Culture Moves Europe- Goethe Institut.

TECHNICAL INFO

- Stage size: 8 x 8 x 5 m (w,d,h) The floor area should be hard, flat, even and covered in black dance floor. Suitable for a Cyr wheel.

- Sound system suitable for the space and the size of the audience with a plug-in for a computer.

- Lights and colors will be used from the theater according to the light plan.

- Necessity of a plug of 220V on the stage side.

More information can be found in the technical rider at request.

CALENDAR

2023

- 10 June Work in progress - Festival Barakacirq, Tarbes (FR).

- 6 September Work in progress - Festival Helium, Vilnius (LT).

- 24 November Work in progress - Maison des Jonglages, La Courneuve (Paris, FR).

- 28 November Festival Circus Stations, Visaginas (LT).

2024

- 12 January Work in progress - Latitude 50, Marchin (BE).

- 21 February Work in progress - MJC Croix Daurade, Toulouse (FR).

- 27 April Villa Manin, CSS Udine - Udine (IT).

- 2 May Festival HOPLA, Bruxelles (BE).

- 23 May Station Circus, Basel (CH).

- 13, 14, 15 June Festival Cirkuliacija - Taurage,Vilnius, Kaunas (LT). PREMIERE

- 19, 20, 21 July Le Grand Festival, Verdun (FR).

- 23, 24, 25 August Festival Spoffin, Amersfoort (NL).

- 4 September Ouverture de saison - La Grainerie, Toulouse (FR).

- 7 September Festival Journées Cirque au Jardin, Montagnac-sur-Doustre, Corréze (FR)

- 29 September Festival Cirque Mania, Korzo Theater, Den Haag (NL).