Seven minutes to condense a three-year marathon: this is the rule given to each student, when creating the number with which they will rush out of the school shelter. In-depth technical training, multidisciplinary broadening, dramaturgical work, he will have gone through everything during his training. But above all he will have gained a wide cultural […]
Cross the line / Franchir la ligne / Ξεπερνώ το όριο / Pasarse de la línea / Überschreitung der linie / Over de lijn gaan / Átlépni a hatar / Passar da linha / לחצות את הקו / … *** Words and moving bodies that wrote them, acrobatic beings heading to another territory. Embodied by […]
For each new creation, the circus artist steps out of their comfort zone to explore beyond what they know. Discovering new sensations and ideas, acquiring skills, and pushing movements to reveal themselves. This stage is well known, yet essential. But we often forget what comes after, what remains to be accomplished with this newly discovered […]
ESAC’s Collective Projects: During supervised collective projects, students are confronted with directors, choreographers, or circus artists, chosen for their artistic quality and their ability to lead them in a creative process. These situations aim to expose the student to original artistic languages that they can use to express their creativity while being aware of the […]
The starting point of this show is play. The pleasure of playing is a strong bond that has existed since childhood, uniting all beings and through which we are able to recognize ourselves, to identify with each other. We explore the fall, failure, winning or losing. How does an individual or a group react to […]
A succession of acts, each representing a universe of its own, Exit is two hours of virtuosity, energy, and daring. It is also a vivid portrayal of a generation grappling with a world in upheaval. Eight minutes to sum up a three-year marathon: that’s the rule given to each student when creating the project with […]
Message to the sleeping volcanoes is both a constant celebration of our lives and a manifesto of confronting our realities. A song to soothe and a cry to awaken. In a succession of scenes, bodies experience domination and submission, exuberance and calm, joy and pain. Seventeen performers bound by the imprint of gestures, in constant […]
ESAC & not standing / Alexander Vantournhout Having studied both at ESAC and P.A.R.T.S., Alexander Vantournhout’s physical language bears the influence of both contemporary dance and circus. In 2022 he’s returning to ESAC to collaborate with the third year students, who’re the final year of their training. Together they re-imagine the circus apparatus and question […]
A collective creation resulting from reflections and confrontations: what are our particularities? What is our originality? Our individuality? What is this relationship that binds us to the group, to the common, to the collective, to the crowd? Confrontation with others, and the relationship with oneself. Happiness as a generic subject, highlighted by the health context. […]
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 […]
Third year collective workshop staged by Gaël Santisteva and the Gilbert & Stock company. Going through an art school course is a bit like entering a fermentation phase. We could playfully make an analogy between the deprivation of oxygen necessary for fermentation and the setting in specific conditions induced by the intensive learning of an […]
The form you will discover is a performance, a mixture of processes from the darkest to the most brilliant which arise from the spirit of collective work. You will be guided through dark corridors and twisted corners where roles are freed from any archetype. It is a physical manifestation, in the same way as the […]
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 […]
Show staged by the company l’MRG’ée – Marlène Rubinelli – Giordano with third year students of the Ecole supérieure des arts du cirque from December 11 to 14, 2019 at 8:30 p.m. and December 15, 2019 at 3 p.m. To start with, there is a voluminous space. typically inhabited in the form of a modern […]
Collective show by second year students of the Higher School of Circus Arts directed by Simon Thierrée Movements The movement of the air vibrates the vocal cords and causes the leaves to fall from a tree. In English, or in Spanish, move and move are one and the same word. Music knows how to […]
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 […]
ÉSAC, Cirqu’Conflex and the Hendrick Van Der Zee company (HVDZ) are inviting residents of Anderlecht and non-profit organizations to create together a film-show called “If your eye were sharper, you would see everything moving” The concept of vigil is the starting point of this creation. The vigil is a 15-day residency where the artistic team […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 directed by Claudio Stellato and Nicanor de Elia with the third year students from the Higher School of Circus Arts of Brussels Bang! appears as a series of brief sequences, without a guiding thread other than the bodies of the performers, pushed to the limit. Limit states, excessive physical demands, contradictory action imperatives, […]
Tutti follows the paper score of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, on which the disciplines of second year Esac students are distributed. These are in turn solo violin, viola, cello, harpsichord, throughout the twelve movements scrupulously followed… except certain movements, placed in a dramatic situation in a more raw and wild manner. And with Charlie Degotte on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Folk is a project about reality, derision and essential action. Artists and spectators occupy the empty space together and the “ceremony” can begin. The apparatus becomes the adored totem, the central axis of the celebration. The deities are summoned and open the door to trance and suspension. The bull and the wrestler dive into a […]
It’s Now is an invitation to pause time, to look, to feel the space and then to get involved. Place the apparatus on the ground and compose. In search of harmony, made of rhythms and colors, breaths and bodies in apnea, the white page fills little by little, images appear and dissolve into ordered chaos. […]
