Circus Baobab breaks the house in Marseille

Could they repeat the feat? This is the question we ask ourselves about Circus Baobab. Since the end of Covid, the company has been operating with He !an explosively energetic show where the mostly male acrobats fight for a bottle of water. We saw them at La Scala in Avignon and in Paris, in the streets of Avignon working at the hat and on tour in France and around the world. A new company is even being set up in Conakry (Guinea) to transport the show on the roads of Africa. In short, a success like we don’t see so often.

Upon learning that Circus Baobab was going to open the International Biennial of Circus Arts (Biac) with a new show, Yongoyelyfor six women and three men, and that Yongoyely means “exciser” in the Soussou language, we feared falling suddenly from the tree. Fear is a bad advisor: on the contrary, we remain firmly clinging to the branches as this spectacle…