THE COLLECTIVE

our story

The company Entre Nous was born in April 2017 and is composed by five artists of different nationalities all trained in the circus arts. They have travelled, mingled with different cultures, and have become citizens of a world without borders.

Now reunited, the group has chosen a common path and builds a future together. In its artistic process, the company hoped to create collectively, gathered around a passion for the Chinese pole.

Between lightness and gravity’s effect, a story unfolds before the eyes of the spectators. The acrobats evolve in tridimensional space blending acrobatics with movement to create a vertical ballet.

THE ARTISTS

who we are

Héloïse Bourgeois

Heloise Bourgeois began acrobatics at the age of five with equestrian vaulting, trampoline and dance in Paris. After college, wanderlust led her into the circus world. The Montreal circus school, “Les 7 Doigts de la Main” and her duo with William Underwood gave her the opportunity to travel around the world several times. Specializing in hand to hand and Chinese pole, Heloise received a gold medal at the Cirque de Demain festival, performed in front of the Queen of England and participated in the Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Games of Turin. Having participated in 13 productions over the course of her twelve years of career, Heloise has created a universe on the edge of dance, theater and contemporary circus.

Matias Plaul

Matías Plaul, formerly a soccer and martial arts enthusiast, he started circus at the age of 20 in Buenos Aires. He is a multidisciplinary artist, equally attracted to theater and dance, and has worked and travelled with renowned circus companies such as “La Arena”, “Cirque du Soleil” and “ les 7 Doigts de la Main”. He has participated in more than 2000 shows in his career and has toured the world several times. Matias is a director, acrobat, dancer, actor and teacher.

Constance Bugnon

Constance is a multi-talented circus artist. After graduating from the Circus School of Quebec in 2014, she continued her journey in Europe, where she joined Company Idem for the creation of « Control », a contemporary dance piece. She has been collaborating since 2016 with Compagnie Ici’Bas, as a creator and performer on the shows « Lonely are the Lonely Roads » and « Homonolith ». Through these different experiences in circus and dance, Constance is particularly interested in the fusion of contemporary arts.

Jeremías Faganel

Jeremías Faganel was born in Argentina and began his artistic training in Buenos Aires. He specializes in Chinese pole, swinging pole and cyr wheel. Gifted by nature, he also touches on aerial disciplines, juggling and acrobatics. He moved to Barcelona in 2010 and collaborates with many European and South American companies. Working with “Cirque du Soleil”, and touring with other shows and cabarets made him a solidly experienced artist.

Mathias Reymond

Mathias Reymond of Switzerland graduated from in 2012 the École de cirque de Quebec, specializing in Chinese pole and Icarian games. After school, he contributed to the creation of the collective A Sens Unique, and went on to collaborate with “Cirque du Soleil”, “Robert Lepage” and “GOP”. In 2015 he co-founded his company “Ici’bas”, which combines dance, circus and live arts. Hungry for art, he is particularly interested in researching movement, whether in ground acrobatics, partnerships or on the Chinese pole.

David Ayotte

David Ayotte trained Chinese pole at the Circus School of Quebec in Canada. In addition to pole, he also learns Icarian games, juggling and clowning. Since he graduated in 2015, he has worked with “Cirque Éloize”, “Cirque Monti” and “Broadway Variety”. He has taught workshops in Europe and Canada, and performed more than seven pole acts in various cabarets and galas. Thirsty for new experiences, his curiosity and artistic receptivity allows him to push himself outside of his comfort zone during artistic creations. As a circus artist, he grows every day with the collaborations that life brings him.

Sarah Lindermayer

Sarah Lindermayer started to train at the age of seven at a youth circus. As a teenager she was already acting and playing different kinds of music. After high school she moved to Berlin to train at the State Circus School and graduated in 2011 as a tight wire dancer and aerialist. Along with her circus training she always continued taking dance classes, theater workshops and private singing lessons. Since 2015 her new discipline is the chinese pole. Sarah is working around the world in really different shows as an acrobat, actor and singer.

Jean Couhet-Guichot

Jean started circus at the age of 12 in different schools in the south of France. After doing a dance and theater conservatory in Beziers, he specializes in chinese pole at the circus schools of Balthazar and Lido. Upon finishing these trainings, he worked with companies such as “Tide”, “Carré Blanc”, “Dadzo” and “La Baraque”. He also played music in the the band “Satisfaction” and founded his own circus company ‘’Les hommes sensibles”. To sum up, Jean is an acrobat, banjoist, break-dancer and magician.. and not only. This impressive set of skills only adds to his touching and contagious sensibility.

THE SHOWS

what we do

” LE GRENIER ”

(“the attic”)

Show for theater/tent, premiere 05/18

The attic is an invitation to discover a space frozen in time. A place filled with abandoned objects that whisper a story full of dust and allow us to glimpse into the past of their stories. Five people find themselves in this place in order to sort through these memories. During this process of dusting, they recollect their illusions, their desires and their forgotten dreams. The attic evokes a time that fragments us, a time that separates us from what was. It traces a path between what we were and what we can become…

Tech

Duration:
1h 15 min.

Description:
5 artists, 2 technicians, 3 chinese poles.

Place:
Theatres and big tops, frontal and circular.

Set-up:
8m x 8m x 8m of height, 6 anchor points, aerial points for scenography.

Partners

Lucas Condro choreographer, Daphné Mauger choreographer, Sebastien Soldevila outside eye, Morgan Cosquer outside eye, Julien Brun scenography and light design, Dominique Vidale costumes, Lucas Dorier music, Antoine Hansberger technical director and light engineer, Benjamin Favennec sound engineer.

Line producer: 7 Tours productions

Coproduction and support for creation: 7 Tours productions – Mourad Merzouki, Cie Kafig, CCN de Créteil – Pôle en Scènes, Espace Albert Camus, Bron – Festival Complètement cirque of Montréal – Carré Magique, Pôle Cirque of Bretagne – La Verrerie d’Alès, Pôle Cirque Occitanie – Espace Périphérique of Villette.

Residency: La chaufferie, Philippe Decouflé DCA – La Grainerie, Toulouse – Nil Obstrat, Serge Clavier – Académie Fratellini – Jatka 78, Praga – Embelli Bain Douche, Rochessadoule – Le Cheptel Aleïkoum, Saint Agile – l’Aiguillage, Ivry sur Seine.

Gilles Aguilar photo credit

Dates

Coming in 2020:
4/12 Ville de Bayeux (14)
18/12 La machinerie, Vénissieux (69)
10/01/2021 Le Toboggan, Décines (69)

2020 :

25/09 Centre culturel Juliette Drouet, Fougère (35)
27/09 Théâtre du Cloître, Bellac (87)
29/09 Théâtre municipal, Saint-Lô (50)

2019 :

10-11/01 Théâtre of Cusset
18-19/01 Carré magique, Pole cirque Lannion
15/03 Théâtre Sylvia Montfort, Yzeure
28/03 La Cigalière, Sérignan
04/04 Forum of Falaise
25/05 La Passerelle, Fleury les Aubrais
02/07 La Merise, Trappes
09/10 Salle Josiane Balasko, Chambly
11-12/10 Theater of la halle au Blé, la Fleche
15-16/10 Le Splendid, Saint Quentin
04-05/11 Le rive gauche, St Etienne de Rouvray
08/11 Espace Francois Mitterand, Montmelian
27-28/11 Chai du Terral, Sain Jean de Vedas
30/11 Theater Goerges Leygues, Villeneuve sur lot
13/12 Centre culturel Yves Furet, La Souterraine
18-19/12 Theater of l’hotel de ville, St Barthelemy d’anjou

2018 :

24-25/05 Espace Albert Camus, Pole en scène
28/09 Espace Capellia, La Chapelle sur Erdre
18/11 Landivisiau
01/12 La Ferme de Bel Ébat, Guyancourt
15/12 Vals-les-bains

” ENTRE NOUS… ”

(“between us…”)

Show for summer festival, premiere 07/17

In an open space where nostalgia and human warmth intertwine, five artists from different backgrounds meet and reconnect around three Chinese poles. Complicity, intimacy, laughter and music merge in this show full of love that combines virtuosity and emotion. The 5 artists have developed a soft and emotional choreographic language around the Chinese pole. Acrobatics, dance, theater and music mingle to the point of being one.

Tech

Duration:
40 min.

Description:
5 artists, 3 chinese poles.

Place:
Outdoor, street, frontal, circular.

Set-up:
8m x 8m x 6,30m of height, 6 anchor points.

Partners

Lucas Condro choreographer.

Line producer: Les Thereses

Coproduction and support for creation: 7 Tours productions – Festival Complètement cirque of Montréal – Collective Entre Nous.

Residency: Embelli Bain Douche, Rochessadoule – Le Cheptel Aleïkoum, Saint Agile.

Sébastien Gracco De Lay photo credit

Dates

2020 :

23/07 Les Jeudi du Jaudy, La Roche-Derrien
28-29-30/07 Festival Cirque d’été, Niort (79)
31/07 Saison estival d’Urbaka, Limoge (87)
1/08 Festival rues de l’Etang, Istres (13)
15-16/08 Festival Re Riga, Lettonia
29/08 Jours et Nuits de Cirque, CIAM, La Roque d’Anthéron (13)
4/09 La Bisbal, Spain
6/09 Festival Oriente Occidente, Rivereto, Italy
9-10/09 Montechiarugolo (Pa), Italy
11-12-13/09 Tutti Matti Per Colorno Festival, Colorno (Pa), Italy
20/09 Comme on se retrouve!, CNAREP Le Fourneau, Le Relecq Kerhuon (29)
3/10 Fête de La Saint Denis, Deux (28)
4/10 Presentation of saison of the theatre of Avranche(50)

2019 :

10-11-12/05 Festival Trapezi, Reus, Spain
19/05 Les prémisses of festival Parade, Nanterre
30/05-1/06 Chuncheon Mime festival, South Coréa
7/06 Festival Circada, Sevilla, Spain
9/06 Festival Kaldearte, Vitoria, Spain
15/06 Lognes en fête, Lognes
16/06 Festival des petits poids, Clamart
22/06 Eaubonne en fête, Eaubonne
06/07 Le mascaret des enfants, Pont Audemer
07/07 Sortie de bains, Granville
09/07 Les Virevoltés, Vire
10/07 Éte exquis, Blainville sur orne
12/07 Eclats de rue, Caen
14/07 Festival des pâtures, Argentan
19/07 Coté cours coté jardin, Bernay
23/07 Ha la belle saison, Théâtre des collines, Annecy
26-27/07 Cirque d’été, Niort
08/08 Un signe en été, Mayenne
10/08 La rue bucolique, La Hague
16/08 Port Leucate
23-24-25/08 Grand patrimoine Loire atlantique, Clisson and Chateaubriand
27-28/08 Les rias, Les Fourneau, Locunolé
29-30/08 Festival de Castilla y León, Avila, Spain
04/09 Terrassa, Spain
08/09 Festival Gaire, Teruel, Spain
11/09 Congrès Bilbao, Spain
14/09 Festivalet de circ, Manresa, Spain
21/09 Biganos

2018 :

13-14-15/07 Festival La Cascade
08-09/09 Bord en Scène, Cirque Elbeuf
14-15-16/09 Jour de fête, Saint Herblain
7/10 Festival des Vendanges, Suresnes

2017 :

6 to 16/07 Festival Montréal Complètement cirque

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THE ACT

” Solar system”

Act for gala, special events, TV show and much more…

“Solar System” is an uncluttered circus act where five artists evolve on three Chinese poles accompanied by music that is at times soft and mesmerizing and at times uplifting and frantic. By supporting, echoing and responding to each other, they accomplish vertical falls and vertiginous stunts. Inspired by the timeless and silent dance of celestial bodies, they orbit around their Chinese poles, which push them to defy gravity together as one.