Then arises a horse ridden by a young woman

The village of Nexon boasts a place Annie Fratellini, in tribute to that which was at the origin of the creation of a centre of the circus in the heart of the Limousin region, more than twenty years ago. The adventure could seem mad; It was, it remains, magnificent. Today, in 38 hectares of wooded park, in the shadow of an elegant castle of the 17th century became the Town Hall of Nexon, the festival is considered by lovers of circus as the inevitable appointment as demanding as playful discipline. Directed masterfully by Marc Délhiat and Guiloui Karl, which provided the development and reputation of Nexon without ever giving quality, highway circus presented over the years, many troops start-up or confirmed.

Barely 20 under tent

This 2009 Edition, with 8 companies and not less than 6 creations, confirms this ambition with 6 shows under tent. What's more normal than a circus in tent say you. Well, precisely, that is Nexon fulfils its mission. Because currently, on the 400 companies listed in France, barely 20 practice their art in tent. Others play in rooms or outdoors. The main reason: the costs, of course. "Turn under tent is 30 to 50 more expensive than in the room, because of the mounting, dismounting, heating, air conditioning or transport, indicates Jean-Michel Guy, engineer of research at the Ministry of Culture, homelessness has a cost."For Circassians, the tent is not a shelter, it is an artistic concept, a philosophy of life. "Energy is different, asserts Luc Grall, of Bazaar Forain.". When you arrive on the runway, people have already returned in my universe. Even if I am esquinter the hands to plant clips in the tar of the parking before playing the cello on stage, I will never abandon to tent.

The best illustration is given by the superb show "The fate of the inside", of the company Baro of Evel, where the Viewer is forced to join its place in the tour of the track is spawning a passage between curtains of tubes, ropes, feathers and other bamboo. Then, when black is set, a cello goes slowly down hangers while one of the Circassians began a lively around the stands, Juche Waltz on a bicycle to the huge front wheel like the Incroyables of 18th century. It will end its grotesque race from crashing sound of pots and pans outside the tent, in the heart of the night limo. Then arises a horse ridden by a young woman. Launched at the gallop, also behind the stands, it is by eclipses in the eyes of the spectators but air fills the sound of hooves hammering the ground and its shadow projected on the canvas of tent. Here space is used up to the closer to the viewer that body with the actors of this intimate circus, among which the horse Bonito with the slightest flinch, the lesser rant can be captured with a power leveraged by proximity. Around a bow cello or a simple carrot, Baro of Evel manages to create moments of great poetry, rhythmic by acrobatic worn, the horse acrobatics and the unrelenting agony.

Any other is the use of the tent by the company Circa Tsuica. His show "National Fanfarerie", evocation risky of the absurdity of nationalist heroes, uses no less than 11 musicians, which perform their numbers without ever stop playing their instruments. Not yet easy to slip into a hoop breakneck with a trombone and a large Fund, to play the clarinet at the top of a human pyramid or blow into a SAX by jumping on a carrier! Around 14 pieces and 6 choreography, exercises - Chinese pole, rocking, hoop, juggling knives... - launch will follow in a musical maelstrom where "La Marseillaise" mixes its accents warriors with a languorous tango and where "The international" ends in "Petit Papa Noël". In Circa Tsuica creaking universe, where the grotesque touch the tragic, Brecht and Weill invite themselves in late. Explosive!