LP (Long Play) is a visual and acoustical underworld hidden beneath everyday life; the basement where our dreams and fears dance. It is a temple to celebrate our identities, to open a gap of human fragility. Cables, software, high-heels and a beard. Bodies transform under sound and light, political speeches, freak shows, immigration offices, and Renaissance paintings. On the eve of the apocalypse, LP is a cry of resistance that makes its way through the decadence of the new millennium.
This creation wants to present a way of perceiving the world. As we reach our 30s still wondering who we are and how to be adults in a world that is becoming increasingly hostile to us, we understand that our identities have been shaped by our dissent. To make our way in today's world is to make us aware of the place that has been socially assigned to us. We could not get on stage without first assuming ourselves as migrants, Sudakas, women, queers or mestizxs. Hopefully this show is a mirror in which at least some minorities can be represented.
The characters are young contemporaries, asking themselves questions about the society in which they live. From the Bible to social media, from the Virgin Mary to the non-binary androgynous, from classical music to Latin American troubadours, from television to the dance floor...
We create an authentic discourse, highlighting the fragility of bodies, driven by essential states. Among our influences are Phia Menard, Chloé Moglia, Johan Swartvagher and Pina Bausch. We nurture ourselves from circus but also from many other things: the nostalgic melodies of contemporary electronic music, those which play old songs parading samplers. That mixture of drama and pop, sexy but transgressor, that we find in Xavier Dolan’s movies. The sensitivity of Kae Tempest's poetry, raw and critical, sincere and beautiful.
OLGA does not want to hide behind a show, nor does she pretend to be someone she is not. We like to believe that this hybrid we make can still clearly be called circus.
SHORTLISTED CIRCUSNEXT 2020-2021. Project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union / BENEFICIARY OF THE AID TO CREATION FOUND OF THE CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION PROJET TRAVESÍA, co-financed by the ERDF. With the support of La Grainerie, La Central del Circ and Ax Animation /
GRANTS: Marie de Toulouse / Département de la Haute Garonne
COPRODUCTIONS: La Grainerie – Fabrique des arts du cirque et de l´itinérance, Balma / Tollhaus Karlsuhe (De) / La Central del Circ, Barcelona - Aid to creation program - Residencias En Estudi / L’Espace Périhérique - Lieu de création dédié aux formes contemporaines du cirque, de l’espace public et de la marionnette. Co-géré par la Villette et la Ville de Paris /
RESIDENCES AND AID TO CREATION: La Maison des Jonglages, La Courneuve / L’Espace Catastrophe – Centre international de création des arts du cirque, Bruxelles / L’Académie Fratellini, Saint Dénis / Konvent Zero, Cal Rosal (Catalunya) / Latitude 50 - Pôle des arts du cirque et de la rue, Centre scénique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Marchin / La Lleialtat Santsenca, Barcelona / Ax Animation, Ax-les-Thermes (Fr) / Cirkorama, Zagreb (Hr) / TIDA – Théâtre danse, Arvier (It) / Unit 15 - Circus City Festival, Bristol (Uk) / Thêatre de l’Arsenic, Cazals-Salviac (Fr) / La Fabrique - Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès - CIAM /
