Putting the referee and the artist in relation is at the heart of CARTON ROUGE.
It's about the moral contract with a sport, its rules and its players, or with a work, an audience and their feelings.
It's about the choice, at the second, to sort out everything that's jostling us to put a cardboard box, to stop something that wants to go on. And, in the show, the tacit choice not to stop, to carry on with a danger, a bad gesture, an emotion that overwhelms…
What if artists could blow the whistle, put things in abeyance, announce an upheaval and take a different path from the one we've been following up to now?
And what if referees were also allowed to show their confusion and emotion, to sublimate their subjectivity and express a sensitive opinion? Carton Rouge (Red Card): A tender and moving look at the place and role of the referee. A back-and-forth between a sporty, performative, standardized circus and a poetic, sensitive, embodied circus, a hyphen between 2 worlds, sport and show, to forge an alliance and have fun with what ultimately connects them.
Acrobatic duet directed by Sophia Perez - cie CABAS
With Anna Loviat and Silène Martinez
Produced by La Coopérative De Rue et De Cirque as part of CORPS ENGAGÉS/ Olympiade Culturelle, Paris 2024.