Contemporary Circus & Juggling at present.
elling you a story through multiverse, performer draws facets of a human being and their invented spirits.
FACES臉 expresses different visions of life through a one-man fast metamorphosis.
Dynamic feelings, dynamic gears, dynamic personalities, dynamic stories, dynamic
sounds, dynamic connections with the audience…
There is a well claimed hommage to cinema. Cassavetes on one side. Tsai Ming-liang (蔡明亮) on the other. Valentin Lechat allow himself be inhabited by demons and familiar spirits from the taiwanese culture.
FACES 臉 takes some of its inspiration from inside cinema, artists’ works, juggling history references, different
cultural influences, to create his own, sharing a certain vision of Humankind.
FACES first version has been created in Asia TAIWAN and JAPAN in 2011. It has been evolved since its build up, upgraded to many versions, has been performed more than 1000 times for millions of people this last 5 years while been in spectacle – residence in one of the most popular cultural spot in Taipei center Huashan 1914 Cultural Park in perpetual rebirth each time it plays.
Dance, physical acting, object theatre, visual art, humor, music, and juggling made they’re coming out from inside the circus dedicated space.
Through this medium, the performer embodies sort of creatures… Surfs on the elements… Juggles unexpectedness,
move all shapes… Plays with life and death as if we were just awake from a dream looking for another dream… He leads us in a journey like a friendly pilot through a
galaxy of ephemeral spirits into the layers of everyone’s realities….. .. . . . . …
TALKS:
I am in love with performing art, offering myself into poetry with public space — audience. The show takes inspiration from life and death, contemporary circus evolution, cinema, danse-theatre, metaphors in instant, also has been influenced by Asia atmosphere, inner ancestral qigong, and Taoist cultural.
It is very interactive, active -reactive, humorous, poetical, juggling is innovating, unique and theatrical, movement straightly expresses inner feelings, mental images, universe.All the artwork was created by years of labor and playful interaction with art raw material and audience.
Valentin LECHAT
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Total plays: over 2000 times!
GOLDEN AGE:
2017: 189 shows [version 2.7 to 2.8] (Taiwan, France)
2016: 227 shows [version 2.5 to 2.7] (Taiwan, Portugal)
2015: 272 shows [version 2.3 to 2.5] (Taiwan)
2014: 218 shows [version 2.2 to 2.3] (Taiwan, South Korea)
2013: 287 shows [version 1.8 to 2.2] (Taiwan)
Credits:
Author: Valentin Lechat
Performer: Valentin Lechat
Stage design: Valentin Lechat
Conception costumes: Ms Zhou, Celma Jonker & Valentin Lechat
Conception Transformation Construction of Objects: Valentin Lechat
Graphisme design: I-An Chen & Valentin Lechat
Soundtrack remixed: Valentin Lechat
Special thanks to Takeshi Kitano, John Cassavetes, Quentin Dupieux, Bobby May, Francis Brunn, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfred Hitchcock, Hoichi Okamoto, Ilka Schönbein, Johann Le Guillerm, Tsaï Ming Liang, Jean Pierre Leaud, Orson Welles, Michael Moschen, Karl Heinz Ziethen, Jay Gilligan, Céline Bacque, Jeff Calafato, I-An Chen, Anjani, Lottie..
Support from DONDORO theatre, 華山1914文創園區, Bureau Français de Taipei, 臺北市政府文化局
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