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Professional (De)formation
Solo documentary about the art of bending over backwards

About

Elodie Guézou invites us to live an intimate, aesthetic and political experience mixing contortion and theater. Her object of study? Her relationship to work and why and how she bent over backwards (literally and metaphorically).

Through fragments of life, she outlines her personal journey of professional deformation: the (non) choice of sector, her meeting with a professional circus artist, a voice message from her mother, her first contortion program, a number listing all the contortion performances she has undergone during her career... and finally the meeting with the specialist who diagnosed burnout.

A sensitive and offbeat sharing of experience to question our relationship to work.

Creation: March 14 and 15, 2024 – La Renaissance à Mondeville (14)

As part of the SPRING festival

Duration: 60 minutes

Audience: Recommended for ages 9 and up

Capacity: Maximum 150

Language : French

State space : 8m depth, 6m minimum width, 3.5m height

(including scenography and audience)

Possible Venues :

  • Non-dedicated spaces: Café, multipurpose room, gymnasium, library, classroom, rehearsal room...

  • Theatre stage: Audience on stage and in seating

  • Tent: Semi-circular

  • Outdoor: Non-passing location, schoolyard, in nature, or with a wall at the back of the stage

 

This performance can operate independently in terms of sound and lighting and does not require any rigging.