BELLS AND SPELLS

For reasons beyond our control, due to an injury to the actress, the show will be cancelled. Bells and spells is cancelled and will be rescheduled for next season.
Tickets are refundable or exchangeable for another show in the season (subject to availability). Please contact the box office before December 20 to exchange or refund tickets.

Victoria Thierrée Chaplin's world is full of humor and the sparkle of gentle madness. This 3rd show, created for and with her daughter Aurélia Thierrée, is no exception. She deploys her art of set and costume design like a puppeteer bringing matter to life. A virtuoso of illusion, she plays with our perceptions and imaginations. Playing the role of an incurable kleptomaniac, Aurélia Thierrée leads us through a maze of intranquillity and poetry towards unknown hallucinatory worlds. With each irrepressible need for possession, she suddenly finds herself manipulated, under the spell of the coveted objects. They seem to belong to a world of its own, where everything is endlessly reinvented. A coat rack starts to walk. Seats and a table slip and slide, while a wall opens to reveal a couple of dancers. Ordinary objects are transformed into chimeras. Here, the strange meets the wonderful. In a series of petty thefts and metamorphoses, the marauder plays with the unexpected. Elegant and ethereal, she transports us to libertarian lands that combine surrealism, burlesque and enchantment.

In 1970, dancer and acrobat Victoria Chaplin met actor and director Jean-Baptiste Thierrée. Together, they dreamed of a different kind of circus, and in 1971, at the Festival d'Avignon, they created their first circus, Le Cirque Bonjoura forerunner of the "New Circus". Victoria and Jean-Baptiste Thierrée then evolved towards a more personal approach to the circus arts, with a strong emphasis on phantasmagoria. In Le Cirque ImaginaireThey are accompanied on stage by their two children, Aurélia and James. The family performs all over the world. They continue as a duo with Le Cirque Invisible.
Aurélia Thierrée is a multi-faceted dancer and performer, touring with the London group Tiger Lilies and performing in variety, theater and cabaret shows from Berlin to New York.
In 2003, mother and daughter got together to create The Oratorio of Aurelia. After Wall murmurs in 2011, Bells and Spells is, in 2018, their third collaboration.

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