RoZéO by Gratte Ciel
TIME & PLACE
19 August 20h00 – Refshaleøen at the harbour bus stop stop – find location
20 August 17h00 & 20h00 – Refshaleøen at the harbour bus stop – find location
23 August 16h00 & 20h00 – Ofelia Plads – find location
24 August 16h00 & 20h00 – Ofelia Plads – find location
WHAT Circus
FREE ENTRY
High-flying circus
The mysterious wind creatures sway over the landscape on six-meter-high poles. At first, the movements are almost imperceptible, then they grow stronger and stronger. The wind speaks to them, and they respond. Who are they? Fauns, Amazons, humans?
RoZéO is a dreamy interpretation of the landscape – a dialogue between atmospheric live music, unpredictable wind and a mythology that connects us to eternity with its strange creatures.
With its hypnotic oscillations, the living installation pulls us out of our usual rhythm. The wind blows across time and space – across all man-made borders – and the work draws threads to a larger world outside our here-and-now.
RoZéO is a desire to return to the landscape and change our relationship with it. The choreography speaks to the landscape and is carried forward by the wind, while the fabulating music emphasizes the rhythm. Poetic, light and absolutely fascinating.
Duration: 45 min.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
The southern French circus company Gratte Ciel is known for their iconic work, Place des Anges, which has been performed all over the world since 2007. The company is currently led by Stéphane Girard and Camille Beaumier, who, together with 70 artists, seek to create magical moments through both large-scale works, site-specific experiments and social networks.
Gratte Ciel translates to skyscraper and bears witness to the company’s obsession with the sky. They are driven by a perpetual quest to create new perspectives on both city and landscape through vivid, organic and surprising experiences. Their importance to the circus and art worlds has long been cemented, and they tour the world with their repertoire of monumental installations created with admirable responsiveness to place, time and situation.
Last summer, Gratte Ciel performed at the opening of the Olympics in Paris, this summer they opened the legendary Glastonbury Festival, and now they are finally in Copenhagen.
CREDITS
Director: Stéphane Girard & Camille Beaumier
Composer and musician: Pauline Frémeau
Artists: Danilo de Campos Pacheco, Amélie Kourim, Claire Chastaing, Pauline Frémeau, Anna Idatte
Composition – external eye: Sébastien Guérive
Glaneuse, cartographe de la Camargue: Luce Monier
Scenography: Nic Von Der Borch
Video: Marc Rebuttini
Costumes: Sari Brunel, Anne Jonathan, Lisa Coinus
Photos: Marine Gastineau
Metropolis’ summer programme is supported by the City of Copenhagen and the Danish Arts Foundation
