Introduction

A breathtaking performance by CNAC, France’s National Center for Circus Arts. A French collective blending music and visual art into transformative performances. It explores conflict—internal, within a company, a society, a world. Inspiration comes from the richness of interactions with oneself and others, from the beauty of flaws, the violence of repressed or expressed emotions, those that imprison in silence, those spoken hesitantly, those that overflow until they feel unmanageable. An aesthetic of purity: an invitation to contemplate bodies that resist, struggle, debate, wait, support, and carry. An exploration of inner storms and calm after the tempest.

Creative team list

Antonin Cucinotta  

Born in June 1999 in Savoie, Antonin Cucinotta grew up between mountains and lakes. At four years old, driven by curiosity and an unexpected attraction to circus, they joined Arc-en-Cirque, the Regional Circus Arts Center in Chambéry. They began with amateur classes, then continued through high school with a circus major, until the preparatory training program from 2017 to 2019. Antonin discovered the stage and Chinese pole, specializing in this apparatus and exploring it in all its forms: swinging pole, perch, quartet, duo…

Uma Pastor   

She discovered circus at age six at Arc-en-Cirque (Chambéry), where she followed intensive training until high school with a circus major. She learned banquine, duo trapeze, teeterboard, and Russian bar. In parallel, she cultivated a committed practice in visual arts—drawing, painting, graphic design—leading her to illustrate texts and testimonies for the project Premières et Dernières fois (led by Elsa Cochat), as well as creating illustrations and posters for circus companies.