Contemporary Circus & Juggling at present.
he Circus 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 contemporary circus and poetry of public space — audience, this show is my life, every weekend I perform in Taipei, the show takes inspiration from the Contemporary Circus, cinema, metaphors but also has been influenced by Asia atmosphere, qigong, and Taoist cultural.
It is very interactive, active -reactive, funny, poetical, the juggling is innovating unique and theatrical, movement straightly expresses inner feelings, mental images.All the artwork was created by years of labor and playful interaction with my raw material and audience.
Valentin LECHAT
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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
Artistic Advisers: Céline Bacque (version 2.6), Jérôme Thomas (version 2.8)
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, Jérôme Thomas, Jay Gilligan, Céline Bacque, Jeff Calafato, I-An Chen, Anjani Lechat..
Support from DONDORO theatre, 華山1914文創園區, Bureau Français de Taipei, 臺北市政府文化局
Production THE UNITED ARTISTS, Fruits Verts Entertainment
PAST DATES :
FACES 臉 under sky // Oct 12 &13
Shine Hills Art Festival 祥雲小鎮 戶外藝術季 / Beijing / China
FACES 臉 under sky // Sept 27 & 28
Daejon Art Mime Festival / Daejon 대전 / South Korea
FACES 臉 under sky immersion// Sept 21
Fête des familles de l'APEI plateforme autisme / Chambéry(73) / France
FACES 臉 under sky // Aug 3
華山1914文化創意產園區 Huashan 1914 Creative Park / Taipei 台北 / Taiwan
FACES 臉 under sky // July 14
華山1914文化創意產業園區 Huashan 1914 Creative Park / Taipei 台北 / Taiwan
FACES 臉 under sky // July 13
Festival "Big City街頭藝術節" / Hsinchu / Taïwan
FACES 臉 under sky // June 11 to 23
Festival "Mesopotamia Circus and Street Arts Festival" / Şanlıurfa / Turkey
FACES 臉 under sky // June 8
Festival "Le Guiers fait son Cirque" / Cognin (73) / France
FACES 臉 under sky // April 13
Festival "Les Pas Perdus" / Cognin (73) / France
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