BRICK + Ûman - Genesis

BRICK - Samuel Bey (BE)

BRICK is a wordless performance centred around a literal and figurative cornerstone of our society: the brick. Clay-red, slightly dusty, solid yet fragile. But above all: full of meaning. As a symbol for a home, for example. The archetype of man’s urge to build a house.

As a young thirty-something, artist Samuel Bey, creator of BRICK, is not immune to social pressure and the - increasingly difficult to fulfill - expectation to own or (re)build a house. That required check mark for a "successful" life. It inspired him to work around that, build something else and tear it down again.

Ûman - Genesis - UNATI (FR)

Ûman – Genesis is a journey from darkness to light, chaos to birth, collapse to reconstruction, battle to liberation. We walk the path of this being, confronting his own chains free himself, die to the old and be reborn under a new day. An inner transformation, possible mirror of our world in change, collapsing and letting space to the emergence of a new one. Die to our self. Inwardly, physically and collectively…And emerge, like a new being, in a new, liberated.

ÛMAN, ritual of a profound transformation and reflect of an actual humanity, dives us into the abysses of life for a quest for peace, within the light of the being.

Anthony Weiss is a pluri-disciplinary artist and emerging circus director and choreographer from Aix-en-Provence – France.

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Ûman - Genesis: written by, artistic direction, director, performer Anthony Weiss sound composition Malik Djouad rigger name tbc choreographic outlook Agathe Thévenot production / diffusion Louise Hamel