Black Beast & Little Queen

Black Beast & Little Queen creation 2024

SHARED EVENING

The Black Beast and Little Queen are two short shows that can be performed together for a shared evening.

 

DYPTICH : THE BLACK BEAST & LITTLE QUEEN

End of creation/resumption for these two short forms featuring female circus artists. The Black Beast, a solo based on contortion and the spine, evokes the inner struggles of a woman with a scarred body. Little Queen, a gritty, clownish satire on the clutches of love, stars Edith, a luminous character who innocently recounts her own downfall.

 

 

THE BLACK BEAST

Duration 25min – For all audiences

To be just a body. A dehumanized, contorted body.
An animal body… In this solo, written as a performative choreography,
a woman sketches out the daily battles against her pet peeves.
On the ground or on an apparatus like a column with its 24 vertebrae,
she is, like a thread that twists, ready to break at any moment. In a chiselled light,
the body and life of this woman are outlined in its wild complexity,
its fragile beauty, without ever bending.

An introspection of the being,
which allows us to glimpse the sufferings, pressures and sacrifices crossed in the extreme exercise of physical performance and surpassing oneself.
Through this portrait, the outline of our states of mind, our dreams, our traumas,
our choices, our moments of grace, our contradictions are outlined.

Love. Life.

 

 

LITTLE QUEEN

Duration 30 min – all ages 10 and up

Little Queen, a gritty, clownish satire on the clutches of love, stars Edith, a luminous character who innocently recounts her own downfall.

“Following on from The Black Beast, a solo on stage created in 2017, a performance based around contortion and the spine that evokes the inner struggles of a woman marked by her career path, I want to create a second part of a triptych of portraits of circus women.

This piece will combine acrobatic performance on a bicycle and text in an offbeat, zany tone. This portrait will feature Fleuriane Cornet, a graduate of the CNAC in 2020, with whom I hope to continue the work of transmission/insertion begun during the creation of Cycle de l’Absurde by staging the students of the 32nd promotion.”

Raphaëlle Boitel

 

 

 

 

DATES OF THE 2024/2025 SEASON

Double evening format – two short forms

Diptych : The Black Beast and Little Queen

 

 

DISTRIBUTION

Stage direction, choreography Raphaëlle Boitel

Artistic collaboration, lighting Tristan Baudoin

Original music Arthur Bison

Stage manager Anthony Nicolas

Stage, sound and lighting manager Thomas Delot

Costumes Sabine Schlemmer

Assistant director, Little Queen Vassiliki Rossillion

Assistant director, The Black Beast Clara Henry

Little Queen performer Fleuriane Cornet

Apparatus designer for The Black Beast Monika Wespi / Ingo Groher

Performer of The Black Beast Vassiliki Rossillion (reprise of role 2024) or Raphaelle Boitel

Direction Julien Couzy

Administration Nicolas Rosset

Production Manager Jérémy Grandi

Communications Officer Léna Scamps

 

 

PRODUCTION & COPRODUCTION

 

Production Cie L’Oublié(e) – Raphaëlle Boitel

 

 

The Black Beast coproduction

Coproduction Agora PNC Boulazac Aquitaine – Le Carré Magique, PNC en Bretagne, Lannion – France

Support from DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine

 

Little Queen coproduction 

Agora, PNC de Boulazac Isle Manoire ; Théâtre national de Nice – Centre dramatique national de Nice Côte d’Azur ; Scène nationale Carré-Colonnes Bordeaux Métropole ; TANDEM Scène nationale ; Archaos Pôle National Cirque, 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie / La Brèche à Cherbourg – Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf ; Château-Rouge Annemasse ; Odysca Biscarosse ; Equinoxe – Scène Nationale de Châteauroux.

This project received a writing commission from the Office Artistique de la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

Cie L’Oublié(e) – Raphaëlle Boitel is subsidized by the Ministère de la Culture DRAC – Nouvelle-Aquitaine; subsidized by the Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Département de la Dordogne and the town of Boulazac Isle Manoire; in partnership with L’Agora PNC Boulazac Aquitaine. Raphaëlle Boitel is an associate artist of Équinoxe, Scène nationale de Châteauroux.

 

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