GALACTIK ENSEMBLE presents OPTRAKEN

⇨ 22:00

⇨ Circus / Gestural theatre

⇨ 60′

For the first time, the circus company Galactick Ensemble bring their show OPTRAKEN to Spain.

In this piece five fantastic acrobats pit themselves against a hostile environment. Unstable ground disappears underfoot, walls wobble, ceilings collapse, dangers come from every side. Forget elegant tumbling and spangle tights – this wonderfully original piece of acrobatic theatre is a battle in which every movement matters for survival. It’s spectacular, impressive, unpredictable and enormous fun.

Mathieu Bleton, Mosi Espinoza, Jonas Julliand, Karim Messaoudi, Cyril Pernot are together the five founding members of the Galactik Ensemble. Their common practice of the circus and more particularly of acrobatics, allowed them to meet within the National School of Circus Arts of Rosny-sous-Bois. Since that time they have enriched their careers with different experiences, performers or authors. Ensemble develops situational acrobatics, the precise relationship between a rugged environment and man’s ability to adjust to it. Their approach is about bringing into play the individual as well as the group in front of a risky situation. They first experiment that short moment when we loose control, from dodging and falling to re-establishing balance. This engagement – that requires a complete investment, where supports are missing, where the body adapts and becomes distorted to maintain its integrity – allows the emergence of singular movements. They arise in and from disequilibrium, thus creating a theatricality that we want to question, intensify, and stage. Galactik Ensemble wishes to show acrobatics not any longer as an elegant manner to challenge gravity but as a capacity to test unpredictability.

How these five guys covered in plaster manage to keep their elegance and ease in the midst of this mess in distress? That’s where’s all their charm lays!