Cie Circoncentrique - Respire!

(c)  Laurent Cahu

Alessandro Maida and Maxime Pythoud, the members of Circoncentrique and friends so close as breath and exhalation, delve into the depths of their friendship with the company of Lea PetraΆs piano music. We are swept by a whirlwind of acrobatic poetry through the rhythm of breath and the skillful flexibility of the two performers. This internationally awarded project, which is on tour since 2012, is inspired by the tight correlation between an event, an emotion and their influences on respiration. The bodies of the two performers become the only canvas where to draw this trinomial. Breathing is the connecting line with the audience with whom the two performers share their emotions, surprises and fears. By using a globe, cyr wheel and balls they perform daring acts of balance reminding us that in the space of risk, where we are totally vulnerable, is where we can appreciate things with honesty, simplicity and genuine emotion.

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Creation-Performance: Alessandro Maida, Maxime Pythoud
Original Music-Live piano: Lea Petra
Production-Communication: Cécile Imbernon-La chouette diffusion
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Circoncentrique is a contemporary circus company: Alessandro Maida and Maxime Pythoud graduated from École supérieure des arts du cirque (ESAC) in Brussels. Their debut show as a group was the 40 minute piece Les voisins, presented in April 2010, that led to the creation of a longer version: Respire. They have both participated in a number of festivals around Europe performing in shows like Roberto MagroΆs Le Stagioni and Tôle, Parenthéses d'harmonie, Sylvain HonorezΆs Des Astres and Eclipses, Reynaldo RampessardΆs Ce que l'on ne nous raconte plus and Guillermo HerasΆs Human Rights 60. They have been awarded several prizes such as the Public and JournalistsΆ prizes at the Pistes de Lancement festival, as well as medals and prizes in Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris, DΆWatt Festival in Budapest, and Young Stage Festival in Basel.

Lea Petra is an award-winning pianist and a collaborator of Circocentrique in their most recent project. Throughout her career she has won several prizes including First Prize Beethoven Chamber Music of the BPSE (London). Today she is the pianist of the group LΆOrchestre du Mouvement Perpétuel, first winner of the Biennial of French Song in 2004, while she participates in various projects as a songwriter.