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“The stage installation focuses on two walls of light projectors called PARs, which frame the space of the performance. This projecteurs are peculiar in that at low intensity they produce a nice golden glow and at higher intensity they produce a yellow light that slowly turns white. The whiter the PAR is, the hotter it gets. The way these projectors are placed, close up and facing each other, will produce a light with beautiful density and a stiffling heat. The more the heat increases, the more we will see the water the performers drink in front of us form beads of sweat that drip out of their pores, soak their clothes, make them slip and fall, rendering them fragile. The worst ennemy of acrobats is perspiration. The heat will rise again and again until almost any lift is made impossible. The projectors will make everything white-hot until steam comes out of the performers’ bodies. During the performance, the acrobates will be accompanied by Séverine Ragaigne who will declaim a monologue into the microphone, like a declaration of love or lust”. David Bobee

Following a stint as a street performer, Alexandre Fray studied circus arts in Chambéry, then at the Centre National des Arts du Cirque. That is where he became an acrobatic base. In 2003, he set off in collective productions with the temporary Cirque de la Bavette, then got involved with several companies, including La Compagnie des Syrtes (dance), the troupe Anamorphose (theatre), Cheptel Aleikoum (brass-band/circus). During a second stint working in Guy Alloucherie’s Les Sublimes, he met Frédéric Arsenault, an acrobatic flyer with whom he decided to found in 2005 his own company, “Un Loup Pour l’Homme”.

Frédéric Arsenault started studying at the École nationale de cirque in Montreal in 1999. He tried different techniques before specialising in flying and hand-to-hand techniques. Frédéric Arsenault has won, in partnership with Martin Laliberté, the price Piste d’or at the Festival de la Piste aux Espoirs de Tournai (B) in 2002. He participated in the production of Guy Alloucherie’s Les Sublimes. Since then, he has been regularly working with the company Hendrick Van Der Zee and chose to set up base in France. In 2005, he founded with a new partner, Alexandre Fray, the company “Un Loup Pour l’Homme”.