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Performing arts / Contemporary circus Éclipse

Cirque des Petites Natures, Vailhourles (FR)
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Photo 1: In a dark environment, a man sitting under a lamp watches a white ball swing.
Photo 2: A man sitting in a dark environment, eyes closed, hands against his chest, a smile on his face.
Photo 3: In a dark environment, a man sitting under a lamp watches a white ball swing.
Photo 1: In a dark environment, a man sitting under a lamp watches a white ball swing.
Photo 2: A man sitting in a dark environment, eyes closed, hands against his chest, a smile on his face.
© photo 1: Camille La Verde / photo 2: Camille La Verde © photo 1: Camille La Verde / photo 2: Camille La Verde

A chair, a hanging lamp, a light-switch cord, a speaker playing tango, a glass of water, a candle. Everything in its place. Under a single light source, the scene is stripped back to almost nothing, as spare as a black-and-white film. 

Into this carefully ordered world steps an equally meticulous character for whom nothing quite stays where it should. The light flicks off for a moment. He juggles the ball the darkness has handed him, unaware that it is about to take it back. Gradually, reality grows more and more absurd as rhythms, shadows, and lights conspire to deceive the audience’s eyes. An utterly disorienting, brilliant solo juggling act.

« The spectator loses their bearings, fascinated by this precision mechanism. Sometimes in stitches, it’s so funny. And then impressed, amazed. »
— Objectif Gard, 07.11.25

Video excerpt from ECLIPSE

création, interprétation : Léo Rousselet / regard extérieur : Étienne Manceau / technique : Francesco Caspani ou Marie Vela / production-diffusion : Baron production – Jordan Enard / production-administration : Le Cirque des petites natures – Denise Dufeu / soutiens institutionnels : DRAC Occitanie, Mairie de Toulouse / coproductions : La Maison des jonglages (Bondy, 93), La Loggia (St-Péran, 35), PERPLX (Kortrijk, BE), Collectif Enjeux / accueils en résidence : Marionnettissimo (Tournefeuille, 31), PERPLX (Kortrijk, BE), La Cascade – Pôle National Cirque (Bourg St-Andéol, 07), La Loggia (St-Péran, 35), Ay-Roop (Rennes, 35), Communauté de communes Sud-Hérault (34), Maison des Artistes Antonin Artaud (Gaillac, 81), Centre culturel Soupetard (Toulouse, 31), Ville de Castanet-Tolosan (31) en partenariat avec La Grainerie, Pôle Européen de production – Balma, Up! Circus & Performing Arts (Bruxelles, BE), Le Collectif En jeux / création novembre 2025