CIRCUS – Writing in the In-between

Duration: 3 hours per day x 5 days

This bilingual workshop led by new body practice artist Andréane Leclerc focuses on the different circus interpretations and writing within an interdisciplinary process in the performing arts. Too often, the circus is simply slipped into a performance context, inserted into a creation, or juxtaposed with other disciplines. Its multiple constraints, among other techniques and the peculiarity of its language, often make it difficult to write for the stage, to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue and, by extension, to carry out research and creation processes. This is because the questioning of the circus form to make it a malleable material for stage writing is fundamentally perilous because it carries a real risk. How can we reflect on the circus as a subject within an interdisciplinary creative process? How can the circus be brought into dialogue with other disciplines in the creation of a new language? How do we get out of a binary logic between two disci- plines and what do we observe within this in-between zone? What new dramaturgical possibilities are emerging? This is a space for reflection, exchange, dialogue and creation in order to target and better understand the issues inherent to the circus and then open up and exchange on different visions and possible interpretations. As a creative laboratory, it aims to break the hierarchy of stage languages to

This workshop was given
Playwrights Workshops Montréal, En Piste - Regroupement national des arts du cirque (Montreal),