During the ongoing Croissment Festival in China, a
special show has grabbed a lot of attention. It features the French new circus, which looks something like a poetical odyssey.
Casacading letters, luminous meteor showers, and poetic dreamscapes are just some of the visual wonders that enchant audiences in this abstract universe. The lines of reality and fantasy gently blur as classical dancer and an autodidactic juggler journey through a virtual landscape that high-tech computer programming and digital arts have transformed into pure, visual poetry.
As if witnessing their dreams, we watch mesmerized as they struggle free from continually
moving walkways and tread lightly across watery floors. Nothing is at it seems.
An audience member said, "When the actors are behind the curtain with digital illusions on
it, it's really amazing as if they are in another space."
An audience member said, "We used to consider circus a kind of performance of skills.
But in this show, we felt imagination and intelligence."
"I like this cinematic show, I love this theatre," said an audience member.
The founder of this show is a multidisciplinary artist who used to be an engineer. He combines juggling with computer technology to produce something truly innovative.
Adrien Mondot, founder of Company Adrien M, said, Of course there is a technical nature and something spectacular, but all of them are used to express a kind of language.
This language is movement, which could describe something that we cannot express by words.
This unique show has won enthusiastic applause in Beijing and will make the rounds in three other Chinese cities until June 29th.