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ACROBAT
Propaganda

Production : Marguerite Pepper Productions, Australia

11-21 march 2010: ALBURY (Australia), HotHouse Theatre - *WORLD PREMIERE*
27 march - 3 april 2010: MELBOURNE (Australia), Arts House Meat Market
19-30 april 2010: CHERBOURG (France), residency at La Brèche centre des arts du cirque de Basse Normandie [unfortunately cancelled because of ash cloud!!]
05-09 may 2010: STRASBOURG (France), Le Maillon
13-16 may 2010: LONDON (UK), The Roundhouse
24-30 may 2010: MADRID (Spain), Circo Price / Madrid Festival de Otoño
05-06 june 2010: TOULOUSE (France), La Grainerie / Festival Caravane de cirques
24-25-26 june 2010: KARLSRUHE (Germany), Tollhaus
01-02 july 2010: SAINT-ETIENNE (France), Festival des 7 collines
06-07 july 2010: GRUGLIASCO (Torino, Italy), Sul filo del circo
from 15 july til 15 august 2010: PARIS (France), Théâtre de la Cité Internationale / Paris quartier d'été
21-24 august 2010: GRONINGEN (Netherlands), Noorderzon

Founded by Simon Yates and Jo-Ann Lancaster in the mid 90's, the australian ensemble acrobat is one of the most fascinating creative experience that has arisen from that huge continent.

Creators of an absolutely unique and yet typically australian universe, they create a blend of astonishing acrobatic techniques with a higly personal vision on modern society.

Indeed, each of their productions are inspired by their own lives, which consisted for many years in extreme training sessions in the backyard of their little house in Albury, Australia. Penniless, but willing to find their own acrobatic language, Simon Yates and Jo-Ann Lancaster have developed over the years a true ethic and special way of living, made of intense physical training and strict organic food. First of all, to build up the physical condition required for top acrobats, but also in reaction to western consumer society.

That desire to go against the tide of contemporary escalation can be seen in the anti-aesthetic of their productions : raw, without compromise, they are basically focused on the personnality and the body at work of the acrobats. It's the antidote for glamourous circus trends: no pose, no decor, no costumes, to go straight to what is essential: human being.

Typically australian, yes they are, by the great sense of self-derision that emerges from each of their productions, always mixing acrobatic perfection with a ferocious, dry sense of humour.

smaller, poorer, cheaper, their previous show, was a manifesto for a simpler life, avoiding any superfluous elements, and confessing about the akwardest, funniest and sometimes painful moments of each performer's life. Yates, Lancaster, Mozes (acrobat) and Tim Barrass (musician), were acrobatically exploring their own pasts with a rare sincerity and hilarious boldness.

Propaganda looks at the future, the one we're making each day by our actions. A couple of naive and muscly revolutionnaries filled with unwavering ideals, invite you to their family demo of very simple methods to fight injustice, promote solidarity, and energize class struggle !

The revolution starts here

With: Simon Yates / Jo-Ann Lancaster / Grover Lancaster-Cole / Fidel Lancaster-Cole
Music: Tim Barrass
Riggers and stage managers: Ryan Taplin / Scott Grayland

A HotHouse Theatre commission.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its funding and advisory body.


Avec le soutien de La Brèche, centre des arts du cirque de Basse Normandie.

PRESS REVIEW

Innovative, daring, funny, inventive, original, surprising... Plenty of positive adjectives come to mind to describe that show. It's a rare and precious moment. Le Progrès, France 2010

They're funny, intelligent and, most importantly, good at what they do. Impressive tumbling, heart-in-mouth slackwire, plus rope, pole and trapeze routines aim to re-educate the masses, albeit in an absolutely enjoyable manner. The Age, Melbourne 2010

Propaganda presents the audience with a list of morals, instructions, rules and suggestions, an overwhelming barrage of the contradictory information that modern life presents to us on a daily basis. There are several layers of meaning beyond the astounding technical skill of the performers. The struggle of obligation, the quest for happiness in the moment, the mass media propaganda generated to keep the drive of consumerism alive and a quiet plea to take only what you need. Australian Stage, Melbourne 2010

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