Le Cirque Astéroïde is a half-hour performance inside a semi-trailer that is part of Maria-Caroline Hominal’s choreographic research around the imaginary of the party, the dynamics of entertainment and theatrical artifices.
“In the spring of 2020, during the months of quarantine, I found myself in front of a construction site, where workers were loading equipment onto a truck covered by a huge red tarpaulin, open like the curtain of a stage.
This image was the trigger for Le Cirque Astéroïde and I later wanted to perform on the street and the semi-trailer became a landscape stage, a place of mobile poetry’.
Marie-Caroline Hominal is an associate artist at the Teatro Sociale in Bellinzona and at the Centre Culturel Suisse hors les murs in Paris.
Concept, text, artistic direction: Marie-Caroline Hominal
Performers: Julia Batinova, Catia Bellini, Pakissi Chris Estevao, Marie-Caroline Hominal, Samuel Pajand
Stage manager: Julien Malfilatre
Administration: Gonzague Bochud
Printing: Rosine Bey
Production: Emilie Marron
Co-production: Festival La Cité (2020), Lausanne
Support: For the period 2022-2024, MadMoiselle MCH is subsidised by the City of Geneva and the Canton of Geneva
Running time: 30′