Vincent Warin started practising BMX as a sport (French champion and world number two in 1991).  Awarded the Bronze medal and the Cirque du Soleil Prize at the 15th Festival du cirque de demain in 1997, he now focuses entirely on the field of performing arts: contemporary circus (Cirque Baroque, collectif AOC, Carles Santos, Pierre-Jean Carrus…), dance and theatre (Blanca Li, Gilles Defacque, Doreen Vasseur…).

Pierre-Jean Carrus, a classically trained musician (pianist, composer and teacher), has designed and directed several shows mixing music and musicians with various art forms such as theatre, puppeteering, video, and circus (Circus Cantabilé, Vienne 1900, Mozart au bistrot, Comment on fait pour le soleil…). A relevant and irreverent vision of music.

 

"A bike on stage is totally absurd.
For a bike, a stage is either too big or too small, both huge and cramped. Trajectories are limited, you have to go around and around and back and forth, or do track-stands. But a bike, even an immobile one, is already a sign of a possible journey. On a stage, it can fly, unwind kilometre after kilometre of road, and create a horizon without you realising. Bikes are also a way to transport you. "

"It’s not about doing one trick after another, like in competition. The goal is to compose, with changes and transfers – and a few tricks, a general movement of the body and the bike, in its simplest purity and complexity, and to compare and contrast its rhythm and dynamic to those of sounds." Vincent Warin

 

Performed by
Vincent Warin, acrobat
Created with Pierre-Jean Carrus, Director
Lighting design by Moïse Hill
Sound Designer:
Thibault Quinon
Costumes by Aurore Thibout

 

Residences & Co-productions: Le Prato – CIRCULONS ! , Lille / La Grange Dîmière, Fresnes / L’Espace Périphérique, Paris /
L’Equinoxe, Châteauroux / La Condition Publique, Roubaix / Les Transversales, Verdun
With the help of Opération Jeunes Talents Cirque 2006.
Searching for a co-producer.

Application pending