The 6th edition of Circus Night takes place over a long weekend, from Friday 15 to Sunday 17 November 2024. This international event offers more than 250 meetings circus artists in no less than 10 countries. In Paris and Île-de-France, the programming of this Circus Night 2023 already looks promising, to be discovered from La Villette to Antony.
If you like acrobatics, numbers combining strength, flexibility, agility, theater, magic, big tops… You’ve come to the right place! For nearly 72 hours, numerous cultural establishments come together to showcase circus arts. Companies, schools, structures… the world of performing arts bends over backwards to welcome you as it should around spectaclesof demonstrationsd’workshopsand other family activities (or not).
From intrepid acrobats to hilarious clowns, including virtuoso jugglers, each act transports you into an extraordinary universe where the impossible becomes reality. La Nuit du Cirque is a celebration of the art of the circus which promises an unforgettable experience under the big top, for young and old alike. Find the entire programming online!
Ten jugglers from the Petit Travers Collective reveal their unique practices and journeys, through a choral piece set to music by the Debussy Quartet. A collective self-portrait with the appearance of a perfectly tuned ballet.
Cayetano Vela will present a magic show that will amaze young and old alike!
- Decadent cabaret – Cirque Électrique 75020 Paris – November 15 and 16
Dinner-show formula prohibited for under 17s – 17 to 48 €
In an atmosphere of sulfur and sweat, nightclub hammam, vapors and black smoke, tongues loosen, speakeasy, bodies liquefy, dirty and saturated techno, a disco ball in the stomach, catch your breath, the vice is at your doorstep. Power, lust, money, poisons of a damned age. Violence, fire, boiling metal, venom from the bowels of a dying and corrupt society, Marvel characters with too much makeup. Standing dance, kneeling cry, barking dogs, tap dancing on cans, central atomic podium, electro-vice, tacatacatacatac, blocked politics, poetic declamations. Vulgar circus and poor man’s cabaret: the ball of the lost. Cursed people, deviants, monsters and glitter, messy party, voodoo mass, no mass, just wine, games, I am sensual, torrida, an electric ladyland, insolent electric freedom. See you later.
- Juggling show and circus film – Salle André Malraux 93140 Bondy – November 15
Juggling and object theater – €4 to €10
A scene which symbolizes a cramped interior, a few boards, a table, stools. Balls, sometimes juggling objects, playmates and imaginary characters, populate every corner of the furniture… A lone man, a bit of a mutt, gets his feet caught in the folds of life, falls and gets up… falls and gets up again. Little by little, he opens the drawers of his inner world to let us hear the noise inside. Behind this juggling and burlesque show, funny and touching, of high technicality, hides a solitude which will reveal itself gradually through the challenges and exploits encountered. Playing to survive, inventing somewhere else.
Movie tracking The Circus de Charlie Chaplin
Cabaret evening with a presentation of acts by vocational training students and artists who come for free training.
- Presentation of numbers – Gymnase Constant Lemaître 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt – November 16
Free
Teachers and advanced level students will present numbers (aerial, juggling, acrobatics, lifts…) in solo, duo or group specially created for the occasion! Professionals and amateurs will thus jointly create this moment of sharing and presentation of their artistic universe.
- Circoradio to eat – L’Azimut Théâtre La Piscine 92290 Châtenay-Malabry – November 17
Conference from 8 years old – €20
CircoRadio to Eatit is a series of short radio shows written for France Culture by Maroussia Diaz Verbèke and Élodie Royer. With three guests, the thinker Pacôme Thiellement, the historian Caroline Hodak and the rider Valérie Fratellini, they develop a sound experience full of humor and fantasy, at the crossroads of imagination and erudition. They invite us to listen to these sound creations with them, during a listening moment which will be staged and accompanied by a brunch at Restaurant Les Machines!
- Circus Remix – L’Azimut Théâtre Firmin Gémier / Patrick Devedjian 92160 Antony – November 15 to 17
Circus from 8 years old – 10 to 20 €
Circus Remixthis is the show that made the Third Circus known. In a succession of original, impactful and surprising numbers, Maroussia Diaz Verbèke deployed a spectacular and timeless circus. Everyone who saw this show still remembers it! At the same time, an incredible soundtrack composed of radio archives gave voice to a multitude of personalities, from Pierre Desproges to Françoise Héritier or Virginie Despentes. Exclusively for L’Azimut, Maroussia Diaz Verbèke invites two performers (almost) alike to slip into her costume to create Circus Remake, a two-person version of this formidable score. A unique opportunity to discover the writing of this artist who plays with codes and categories!
