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Rain/Bow
By Jérôme Thomas Company |
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Date:
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02 June (Mon) & 03 June 2008 (Tue) |
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8:00 pm |
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Kwai Tsing Theatre, Auditorium |
| Tickets: |
$300 / $220 / $150 |
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Tickets are available in all URBTIX outlets |
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Performed in French with English and Chinese subtitles |
Discount |
- 50% discount on $220 tickets for full-time students, senior citizens and people with disabilities and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients. (Limited tickets for available on a first-come-first served basis.)
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- 20% discount for Alliance Française Privilege Card Holders
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Quotes |
| This ballet does not rest on past experience, because there is no history of juggling ballet. - Jérôme Thomas |
Jérôme Thomas, ‘reformist of the juggling art in France over the last 15 years’ - Le Monde, Rosita Boisseau |
Introduction |
Rain/Bow
‘the most thrilling visual ballet’ - Le Monde, Rosita Boisseau
Rain/Bow is the last creation of the Company. Fusion of juggling ballet and circus art pieces, it was choreographed by Jérôme Thomas, and offered to the public’s eyes in February 2006. The show has been performed more than 100 times since then.
Rain/Bow is a contemporary circus show for ten artists, composed of two parts: Rain and Bow. The idea of the show was born from the research for a juggling practice which considers objects manipulation and body movement as a unique gesture. The company named this practice developing a detailed geography of the space as «cubic juggling». |
Rain ‘just like a grey monochrome’ - Le Monde, Rosita Boisseau
Sustained by the surprising and emotional music of the Austrian composer Max Nagl, Rain magic comes from the simplicity of the brush stoke and a precise writing. This juggling ballet is full of mystery and sensuality, and combines calligraphic body paths in the nocturnal space, and the trajectories of classical juggling props : balls, clubs, sticks, rings … Rain is written as a unique and long movement, with subtle scenographic and musical changes close to kinetic arts. The music is born from a series of real recorded sounds, which had been worked on again, the aim being « to put a melody on the noise of our contemporary world ». |
Bow ‘multicoloured as a balloon drop’Le Monde, Rosita Boisseau
Bow is the opposite : a surrealist explosion of colors, funny costumes, a tribute to circus and cabaret. The artists on stage build a show from everything they have at hands, with the wonderful energy of clowns, and a provocative joy ! Close to absurd and grotesque situations, jugglers become objects manipulators and use the most diverse things : feathers, umbrellas, brooms…They can pick up every object they fancy and use it, as they want. Juggling is mixed with different forms of expression, and the music turns to a sophisticated brass band…
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