Gnoko Bok

Estelle Borel
cirque rue
Gnoko Bok
© Céline Ribordy
Year of creation : 2020 - possible revival
Duration : 50 min
Target audience : adult audience
without specific language, French
Type : Fixed | indoor & outdoor
Clowning, Circus, Dance, Balancing acts, Performance, Theater, Object theater, Tight wire, Partner acrobatics, Cyr Wheel, Tap dance, Hiplet
"Gnoko Bok", which in Senegal means in Wolof "Thank you, shared pleasures, we are together", is a contemporary circus project in situ. Through the aesthetics of a tale written after a tour in Senegal and based on the experience of racism of one of the artists of the project, mixed race and Afro-descendant, the two acrobats invite the audience to immerse themselves in a project whose research is inspired by a quote from Carolin Emcke: "I am looking for what poetic force, what literary bias can effectively resist violence. It is between two worlds that the artists evolve, on a wire, a Chinese pole, the earth and the skies: On their way to Senegal, the two friends and colleagues Tania Simili and Estelle Borel die when their plane crashes. Freshly deceased, they open the door of Valhalla - or Olympus, Paradise or whatever its name is - which has been deserted. God, Zeus, Allah, Yahweh, Gaia or whatever you choose to call him/her, has left, packed up. Total burn out. He or she has abandoned his or her position, slammed the door... Recipient of two writing grants (SSA & T. and Pro Cirque). With Marion Guyez and Claudel Doucet as outsiders and Tania Simili and Estelle Borel as co-authors and performers.

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