60 degrees of separation

CREATION 2024

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60 degrees of separation is an invitation to let yourself be transported by the pleasure of the collective.

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Everything and everyone moves around you. The drummer is on a rolling podium. The acrobats are in the air, hanging on one aerial strap only. The two acrobats are holding hands and will need yours ... Guided by the driving sound of the drums and thanks to you, being present within reach of the action, impressive tricks will come to life. Let's explore, together, the intimacy linked to circus movements and the joy of the collective.

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6 degrees of separation is the name of the theory that says you are at most 6 handshakes away from every other person in the world.
60 degrees is about the angle needed to lift someone off the ground if the person has one hand in the aerial strap and one hand pulled by someone else.

60 degrees of separation is the combination of both and the name of this circus performance.

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Camille Paycha sets up a collective experience around the following questions: at which point does the care of intimacy shift to the violence inherent in the extreme physical actions of a circus technique? When does a technical movement become intimate? Camille tries with this project to shift literally and figuratively the verticality of her aerial craft to a more collaborative and transversal way of dealing with her surroundings.

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TO BOOK THE SHOW AND FOR DOWNLOADS: Je Buro - Emma Ketels

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CREDITS

By: Camille Paycha
With: Sofie Anny Nicea Velghe and Camille Paycha, live music: Engel Peet 

Mouvement research: Ruben Mardulier
Dramaturgy: Laura Gilles-Pick

Costumes: Sofie Anny Nicea Velghe

Intern: Alice Davies
Light design: Michiel Soete
Distribution: Emma Ketels (je buro)

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Produced by Boegbeeld
Co-produced by: PERPLX - Marke (BE), Miramiro – Gent (BE), Theater op de Markt – Dommelhof Neerpelt (BE)
Residencies: De Grote Post - Oostende (BE)
Thanks to: Gouvernement - Gent (BE) and Festival Circolo – Tilburg (NL)

Project supported by the Flemish government. 

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AGENDA

_ 28 and 29 November 2024 Dutch première at Theater Bellevue part of the festival This is not a circus

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past

_ 4th October 2024 PREMIERE in De Grote Post in Oostende BE

https://www.degrotepost.be/agenda/4617/camille-paycha/60-degrees-of-separation

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_ 13 October 2024 at Vitrine PERPLX in Kortrijk BE

 

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ACCESSIBILITY

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The doors remain open and you can move around and change place

Accessible for wheelchair
Music may be louder at times, earplugs available

Service animals are welcome

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No spoken language
No total darkness, flashing lights or strobes

No use of smoke machines

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TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Age: 10+
For black box or on location
60 min
No spoken language
1 time per day
J: build up – show – build down
Team of 4 people. Travel from BE
250 maximum capacity (depending on the space)
Without tribune, audience on stage (10x10m minimum)
One hanging point for aerial straps. Hight: 7 meter minimum

The company brings their own benches for the audience

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