Exit is the final stage in the training of ESAC students: a series of short numbers, as diverse as the personalities of these young artists. Singularity, inventiveness, and high standards: this is what is expected of them within the school, and in the professional world where they are now entering. You will be the first to judge their prowess!

After three wonderful weeks of residency, it is a meeting, a story of transmission, that we will invite you to attend. This meeting, this story, are those that the second year students at ESAC shared with Catherine Diverrès, around a piece entitled Blowin’.

After three weeks of work, this flagship piece by the French choreographer is taking shape and coming back to life in Brussels. Initially designed for eight dancers and 2 musicians, this choreography is no more fixed than the music or the light. Everything is improvised in real time, in a process based on the Tao and the Yi-King. In search of a new type of relationship between music and dance, Catherine Diverrès places randomness and improvisation at the heart of the creative process of Blowin’, thus radically calling into play her language and her writing. It explodes, disperses, and destructures the fundamentals, to re-engage them from other angles, to probe their strengths and faults, to confront them with other issues and possibilities. Thus,

Blowin’ chooses to explore the free, direct relationship of dance with music, and, rather than summoning writing and composition, gives priority to the moment and to the performers by favoring in the process the improvisation. Music is born in the presence and immediate reaction of bodies, from a diagram certainly, but which leaves room for improvisation in the representation for the musical structure, displacements and movements. Being with or against music, exercising, practicing and experimenting with the confrontation of music and dance to act on the immediate intelligence of bodies and listening to the relationship in the group.
Blowin’ – 2016 recreation

Artistic collaboration / scenography: Laurent Peduzzi | Dancers: Emilio Urbina. Interpreters: second year Esac students. Musicians: Seijiro Murayama—percussion, Jean-Luc Guionnet—saxophone, young musicians supervised by Ars Musica| Light: Catherine Diverrès, Eric Corlay, Les Halles technical team| Lighting advice: Marie-Christine Soma | Costumes: Cidalia da Costa assisted by Claude Gorophal | Scenographic construction: Atelier Devineau.
Original co-production: National Choreographic Center of Rennes and Brittany, International Choreographic Meetings of Seine-Saint-Denis. And, for the 2016 recreation: Halles de Schaerbeek, Anne de Bretagne Theater (Vannes), Higher School of Circus Arts (Brussels). With the support of Ars Musica.

A show directed by Roberto Magro, music by Simon Thierrée with third year students from the Higher School of Circus Arts.

Inspired by the idea of a “unique and happy moment” as evoked by the poet Mario Benedetti, Roberto Magro suggests that ESAC students focus on the moment and its importance. How could even a flash of extraordinary joy arise from the routine of everyday life?
How can we overcome frameworks, habits, comfortable certainties? How can we bring about the epiphany, this revelation to ourselves of what we didn’t know we were hiding, let’s say the promise of a butterfly?

One minute ! Do you smell this scent of emptiness?
With the help of Jean Michel Guy, Milan Herich and Sara Sguotti.

Halles de Schaerbeek
Rue Royale Sainte-Marie, 22 1030 Brussels
information and reservations: +32 2 218 21 07
reservation@halles.be

Second year workshop of the higher school of circus arts and Master Dramatic Interpretation of INSAS directed by Ingrid von Wantoch Rekowski with the collaboration of Natacha Nicora, Manolo Sellati and Philippe Vande Weghe.

Inspired by Tango, by Polish director Zbigniew Rybszynski, the idea of a “body double” and “Kommunalka” (communal apartments in the Soviet Union), Pas de deux chez soi brings together students under the leadership of Ingrid von Wantoch Rekowski of INSAS and ESAC. Actors and circus performers come together in a common logic of repetition and routine, carrying musicality; in a new physical language, because it is always intertwined with the duet partner; and in a trajectory between constant promiscuity and multiple solitudes.

Jacques Brel Auditorium – Céria Campus
Rue Emile Gryzon, 1 – 1070 Brussels
Free entry, reservation essential:
+32 2 675 68 84 / info@esac.be

Exit is the final stage of training for final year students. In the form of a series of numbers, proposals submitted by students demonstrate the creativity of a booming sector. Each circus act combines a unique artistic approach with the highest technicality.

A show staged by Christian Lucas and Cheptel Aleïkoum with third year students from the Higher School of Circus Arts

“As iron sharpens iron, so sharpens man with man” (Proverb 27:17).
Cheek to cheek, which could just as well have been called “joute against jouxte”, declines like so many games the attributes which characterize circus collectives: commitment, insolence, provocation, confidence, pleasure, pain, affection, tenderness, eroticism. Variety of proposals and frivolity of games. A party, so as not to take yourself seriously and for the mask of fantasy to release the gravity of its heaviness. A rejoicing, where it is not a question of “having the skin” of the other, but of traveling there.

Halles de Schaerbeek Rue Royale Sainte-Marie 22, 1030 Brussels
Info and reservations: +32 2 218 21 07 reservation@halles.be

Second year workshop of the Higher School of Circus Arts and students of the music field of the Royal Conservatory of Liège. Directed by Christophe Morisset.
In the circus as in music, the soloist’s performance must deal with the unavoidable reality of cooperation. For the duration of a show, thirty students combine their own specialties and their high technicality based on complementarity, community and solidarity. Without diminishing their individualities, they offer an orchestral vision of artistic practice, like a metaphor for a better possible world. A utopia ? No, more a question of choice.

Free entry, reservation essential: +32 2 526 79 00 / info@esac.be

Presentation at the Théâtre de Liège on May 18, 2018

End of studies show for the 17th promotion of the Higher School of Circus Arts.

Exit is the final stage in the training of ESAC students: a series of short numbers, as diverse as the personalities of these young artists. Singularity, inventiveness, and high standards: this is what is expected of them within the school, and in the professional world where they are now entering. You will be the first to judge their prowess!

End of studies show for the 18th promotion of the Higher School of Circus Arts.
From June 19 to 22 at 8 p.m. and June 23, 2019 at 3 p.m.

Exit is the final stage in the training of ESAC students: a series of short numbers, as diverse as the personalities of these young artists. Singularity, inventiveness, and high standards: this is what is expected of them within the school, and in the professional world where they are now entering. You will be the first to judge their prowess!

Exit is the final step in the training of ESAC students: a series of short numbers, as diverse as the personalities of these young artists. Witness the individuality, innovation and rigor demand of them in the school and in the professional world they enter now. You will be the first to experience their incredible skills!