Technical needs

Creation 2001

It was performed about 400 times in France, Europe and Asia.

It is a 20 minutes duo (dance and juggling) that can be performed outside as well as inside.

 

This is a poetic and inartificial theatre…

A bench as the one and only setting, a newspaper and three balls as the only props… All the rest is told by the looks the dancers give each other. It is the unspoken story of a casual encounter between a man and a woman as they commence the gentle game of seduction.

Le Télégramme (August 2001, 9th)

 

Photos by Ellen Couasnon, in La Bellangerais (Rennes, France), June 2001, 19th

Banc Public
Is weaving an encounter
In which the dancing, the juggling and the tumbling
Defy and intertwine with one another.

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In an undefined place, a public garden, a park, a street… there is a bench which is calling for an encounter.
A man and a woman sit down. They do not know each other but they cannot help looking at each other.
And the game begins…

They start up a dialogue. A little too fast, clumsily, on this too cramped bench. They soon come into conflict with each other. The rhythm is speeding up and the bench becomes a labyrinth in which they run after each other without finding their way out.

As their relationship has merely become a fight, a ball appears and changes the stake.

They both try to appropriate the object. This last eventually weaves a link between them and becomes the reason for their meeting.

 


 

The team:

The Choreographers: Laetitia Couasnon and Sébastien Braux.
The Dancers: Aurore Marguerin and Mathieu Maisonneuve.
The set designer: Rémi Jacob.
The wardrobe mistress: Aude Gestin
The outside eyes: Christian Cerclier and Olivier Germser.