As a result, they wanted to work together on a project. Yet challenges come up. Could it be possible to devise a Theatre of Acrobatic Movement production using an artistic bicycle? How do you take a specialty out of its usual context (a technical sequence of choreographed movements) to script it and use it to tell a story?

As an acrobatic device, bicycles are fascinating for their dramatic and poetic power. The designers aim to create an acrobatic vocabulary linked to poetic images unlike those in traditional specialized jargons. They deconstruct sequences while developing common references.

The creative project combines acrobatics, illusions and poetic images. It focuses on a quest for identity, the loss of reference points and the legacy left by those preceding us. From the start the designers wanted this meaningful lightweight production without words to reach a wide audience. In a house a man rediscovers his family history where everything seems to have been forgotten. The power of disregarded feelings causes reality to shatter. Imagination transforms it. Magical realism takes over and overwhelms reason. Having gone through an uprooting, the character will have to decide between what is current or past, or more so what is real or imaginary.

DynamO Théâtre would like to thank the Maison de la culture Saint-Laurent and the CEGEP Saint-Laurent for allowing creative residencies in their venue.

Thanks to the Programme Tremplin, the production received financial support from the Conseil des arts de Montréal, TOHU and the circus arts national network En Piste.

The premiere will take place on July 8, 2019, as part of the festival Montréal Complètement Cirque

“Guillaume Doin, seemingly alone onstage, is disarmingly touching when he reconnects with happy and excited events as well as times of sadness. A touching tale in which a joyful musical score and fun-filled acrobatics evoke powerfully poetic images […].”

Philippe Mangerel, Jeu revue, July 10, 2019 […]

“Although DynamO Théâtre is a young-audience theatre company, it has proven that with Life-Cycle, its artistic approach can reach all those who have kept in touch with their inner child or are looking to reconnect with it. […] “

Nina-Rose Cassivi, atuvu.ca, July 11, 2019