ARCHIVES 2016 / Grey Ideas

Grey Ideas is a quest for absolute freedom, an attempt to let go of the conventional, and a celebration of the incongruous. It is an opportunity to destroy our rational thoughts and to let ourselves ramble towards the irrational. Bastien Dausse and François Lemoine, two young acrobats, writers, and performers from the company Barks, imagine a world free of the laws and logics that rule ours. Making up their own vocabulary to express their vision of the circus in each and every one of their creations, they have decided this time to unhinge the laws of time and space, to erase the border between what's real and what isn't, to playfully defy gravity, all the better to make us lose our bearings.

Bastien Dausse
Bastien Dausse first discovered the circus and acrobatics at the Bordeaux circus school. He then joined the Académie Fratellini, where he specialised in acro dance, while studying under Lin Yung-Biau at the École des Arts chinois du spectacle. He has appeared in Stéphanie Loik's Les Ponts.

François Lemoine
François Lemoine studied at the Amiens circus school, directed by Nordine Allal. It is there that he first discovered the Chinese pole, which he chose as his specialty when he joined the Académie Fratellini, where he worked with Jérôme Thomas, Hervé Sika, and Gaëtan Peau, among others.