L'Instant T

Creation 2022

Juan Ignacio Tula creates a performance titled "Instante", the result of an in-depth exploration with his object of obsession, the wheel. Today, the artist offers an in situ form where "Instante" continually transforms into L'Instant-T, becoming a raw material in perpetual transformation. In the turmoil of dance, we dive into a trance, an endless quest for universal and personal connection to share. In the simplicity of a rotating and repetitive movement, the circus gesture leads us into a dervish dance; from the blindness caused by spirals emerges the survival instinct, where the body commits fully, on the edge of the inflection point where everything becomes infinite.

DISTRIBUTION

Conception
Juan Ignacio Tula

With
Juan Ingnacio Tula et Bru Ferri

Sound Design and Musical Composition
Bru Ferri

Production and distribution
Kevin Gabriel Fricot

Administration
Anne Delépine

Production
Cie 7Bis

PARTENAIRES
Residency Hosts & Co-productions

Espace Périphérique, Parc de La Villette – Mairie de Paris
MA scène Nationale – Pays de Montbéliard
Le Festival UtoPistes en partenariat avec Les Nouvelles Subsistances et la Maison de la danse, Lyon
Le Prato – Pôle National Cirque - Lille

Théâtre de l'Agora - Scène nationale de l'Essonne en partenariat avec In Situ - Plateforme européenne pour la création artistique en espace public piloté par Lieux publics - Centre national & pôle européen de création pour l’espace public

Remerciements à la Compagnie Les mains, les pieds et la tête aussi pour son accompagnement et son soutien.

Lontano

Creation 2022

Lontano is a co-creation between Marica Marinoni and Juan Ignacio Tula.

In this performance, where the Cyr wheel serves as a totemic object, acrobat Marica Marinoni pushes the limits of the body, raising several questions: What is the place of our body today? Why do we choose to engage our body? What does a body want?

Through a dialogue between flesh and wheel, Marica develops a hypnotic and sensitive language centered around the theme of resistance. With tenacity and overflowing energy, she takes risks, rolls, dodges, and resists: Lontano becomes a cry of resistance in the battle of a life that pulses. Blow after blow, fall after fall, Lontano ultimately transforms into a dizzying and relentless dance.

DISTRIBUTION

Co-creation
Marica Marinoni et Juan Ignacio Tula


With
Marica Marinoni


Lighting Design
Jérémie Cusenier


Sound Design
Estelle Lembert


Costumes
Gwladys Duthil

Production and Distribution
Kevin Gabriel Fricot

Administration
Anne Delépine

Production
Cie 7Bis

PARTENAIRES

Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie – La Brèche à Cherbourg / Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf LE PALC, Pôle National Cirque Grand Est – Châlons-en-Champagne
MA scène nationale – Pays de Montbéliard
Théâtre de Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines
La Verrerie d’Alès, Pôle national cirque Occitanie
Centre Culturel Agora – Pôle National Cirque de Boulazac
Le Festival UtoPistes en partenariat avec La Mouche – Théâtre de Saint-Genis-Laval

Avec le soutien de la SACD / Processus Cirque, de la DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes -Alpes au titre de l’aide à la création et de la Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Instante

Creation 2018

Circus Artist and Dancer, Juan Ignacio Tula explores the possibilities of his apparatus, the Cyr wheel. Through an interplay of forces and counterweights between metal and body, within the expression of centrifugal force, a field of possibilities and discoveries unfolds inside the wheel. How can the state of exhaustion encountered through a simple, rotating, and repetitive movement inscribe itself into the body?

From the blindness induced by spirals emerges the instinct for survival, where the body commits fully, nearing the inflection point where everything becomes infinite. Instante is the materialization of this journey to the center of oneself.

Through dance and physical performance, Juan questions his own limits, leading us to the edge of hypnosis, disrupting our perception of time, and offering us a reflection of perseverance and humanity. In this journey of elevation, he questions and reveals himself.

DISTRIBUTION

Created and Performed by
Juan Ignacio Tula

Lighting Design
Jérémie Cusenier

Sound Design
Gildas Céleste

Costumes
Sigolène Petey

Stage Management
Estelle Lembert ou Célia Idir

Production and Distribution
Kevin Gabriel Fricot

Administration
Anne Delépine

Production
Cie 7Bis

PARTENAIRES

Espace Périphérique, Parc de La Villette – Mairie de Paris
MA scène Nationale – Pays de Montbéliard
Cie MPTA et Le Festival UtoPistes en partenariat avec Les Nouvelles Subsistances et la Maison de la danse, Lyon.

Special thanks to Compagnie Les Mains, Les Pieds et La Tête Aussi for their support and accompaniment.

Pourvu que la mastication ne soit pas longue

Création 2021 - Vive le sujet Avignon IN

Conception and performance by
Hakim Bah & Arthur B. Gillette & Juan Ignacio Tula

Pourvu que la mastication ne soit pas longue is the result of a meeting between three artists, three disciplines, three continents, and three journeys. At the crossroads of myth and the contemporary, Hakim Bah, a playwright with numerous works to his name, reinterprets the tragic in our current societies. Juan Ignacio Tula, a circus artist and dancer, a virtuoso of the Cyr wheel, explores and pioneers the possibilities of this apparatus. Arthur B. Gillette, founder of the band Moriarty, guitarist, and composer with a taste for wandering and ethereal landscapes.

They question police misconduct through a documented fiction based on a real event: the death of Amadou Diallo, a young Guinean man shot 41 times in the Bronx on February 4, 1999, by four New York City police officers. A deep dive into this case that shook America and the media.

DISTRIBUTION

Texte
Hakim Bah

Cyr Wheel
Juan Ignacio Tula

Création musicale et sonore
Arthur Bartlett Gillette

Artistique Collaboration
Mara Bijeljac

Lighting Design
Gabriele Smiriglia

Distribution
Kevin Gabriel Fricot et

Production
Paupieres Mobiles & Compagnie 7bis

Administration
Anne Delépine

PARTENAIRES

Production Compagnie Paupières Mobiles & Compagnie 7bis
Production déléguée Compagnie Paupières Mobiles
Coproduction SACD-Festival d’Avignon

Residency Hosts & Co-productions

Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie, La Brèche à Cherbourg -Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf
Accueilli en résidence aux Ateliers Médicis
Avec le soutien de Montévidéo Centre d’Art et La maison Pop à Montreuil

Tiempo

Création 2021

Continuing the exploration of his signature apparatus, the Cyr wheel, Juan Ignacio Tula invites Justine Berthillot to co-write and share the stage of Tiempo.

In this creation, two characters inhabit a confined space that spins on itself, like a revolving stage at arm's length, filled with basins and wandering movements, where the inside of the Cyr wheel becomes the heart of the play. From this duo emerge ordinary, almost daily scenes, offering relational stories that are both supportive and solitary, from which one can only escape through projection or fantasy. And from this way of life where everything becomes a satellite, with bodies and objects orbiting, Tiempo then transforms into a swirling and hypnotic dance.

CAST AND CREW

Concept, Direction, and Performance
Justine Berthillot et Juan Ignacio Tula

Lighting Design
Thibault Thelleire

Sound Design
Lola Etiève

Costumes
Gwladys Duthil

Propos Design
Guillemine Burin des Roziers

Construction
Nicanor Moreno, Franck Breuil et Thibault Thelleire

Stage Management
Célia Idir et Estelle Lembert

Production et distribution
Triptyque Production - Andréa Petit-Friedrich

Administration
Anne Delépine

Production
Cie 7bis

Residency Hosts & Co-productions

MA scène nationale – Pays de Montbéliard
Théâtre 71 scène nationale de Malakoff
La Verrerie d’Alès, Pôle national cirque Occitanie
Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie - La Brèche à Cherbourg / Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf Festival des 7 Collines à Saint-Etienne
Cirque Jules Verne - Pôle National des Arts du Cirque et de la Rue - Amiens
Les Ateliers Médicis
Le Vellein, scènes de la CAPI - Isère
LE PALC, Pôle National Cirque Grand Est - Châlons-en-Champagne
Espace Périphérique, Parc de la Villette – Mairie de Paris
Centre Dramatique National Orléans / Centre - Val de Loire

Compagnie 7bis is supported by the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes for creation funding and by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region. With the support of the Groupe de 20 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.