Le lichen prend racine comme Rosa prend le bus
Compagnie d'iElles
Practical information and accessibility
Minimum recommended age: 6 years
Site-specific performance Start: Espai Cràter // Finish: Montsacopa Volcano Crater
Wheelchair users and visitors with reduced mobility: the route passes over uneven ground with gravel paths, steps and very steep gradients. For more information, please contact us at eforment@olot.cat.
Comfortable footwear is recommended.
This performance takes place within the Parc Natural de la Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa. Please respect and care for the natural environment.
A work that invites audiences to wander and enjoy a journey peppered with circus scenes and performative situations.
Le lichen prend racine comme Rosa prend le bus is created specifically for each location, emerging from an in-situ creative process. Compagnie d'iElles will undertake a creative residency in Olot, opening up spaces for exchange, knowledge-sharing, co-creation and inspiration, with the aim of shaping a narrative and an artistic proposal rooted in contemporary circus.
The work offers an artistic, inclusive and ecofeminist interpretation of the landscape – a collection of poetic actions and situations that seek to repair silences, open spaces for dialogue and bring forgotten stories to light.
Based in Occitania since 2004, Compagnie d'iElles is closely associated with the work of Yaëlle Antoine, who trained at the Annie Fratellini Circus School and Esacto-Lido. For Antoine, public space is a privileged artistic territory, enabling her to explore her social and political concerns through mediation work and artistic interventions. Lames Sœurs, co-written with Paola Rizza, was awarded the Beaumarchais Prize (2007). In 2014 she created Be Felice, Hippodrame Urbain, her first promenade performance with headphones. Liesse(s) (2021) marked a turning point in her practice, driven by a desire to work in a purely choreographic form. Antoine is currently co-writing with Sarah Simili the three-year project Reboot, focused on critical and inclusive pedagogies and their application within the circus arts.
Direction and Writing: Yaëlle Antoine / Assistant Director: Frieda Gerson / Choreographies: Sandra Sainte Rose Franchine / Vocal Artist, Choir / Direction and Violin: Anaïs Raphel / Tightrope Walker and Gardener: Louisa Wruck / Hula Hoop: Marianna De Sanctis / Chinese Pole: Andréa Schulte / Actor: Sofia Antoine / Aerial Artist: Giulia Trafossi / Dancer: Lucia Soto / Acrobat: Mau Cugat / Sound Creation: Rodolphe Collange / Administration and Production: Aurore Carpentier and Barbara Jeanneau / Acolytes
Supported by: DGCA Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication; Région Occitanie.
Compagnie d’iElles has received funding from the French Ministry of Culture (DRAC Occitanie) since 2021 and support from the City of Toulouse since 2023.
The company is a member of the Erasmus+ Circus Occitanie Europe consortium, coordinated by La Grainerie, and receives European co-funding for learning residencies abroad.
This project was selected for the cross-border EKO Pyrénées de Cirque programme 2024–2025.
