[Cirque] Ancrage

Senegalese-born circus performer Modou Fata Touré, son of a renowned marabout whom he was to succeed, broke with tradition to establish himself as a contemporary circus artist with a wide range of skills? aerial acrobat, juggler of improbable objects. Echoing his own history, in Ancrage he questions man?s disconnected, sometimes conflicted relationship with nature. With acrobat Ibrahima Camara, they manipulate straw, wood and earth, all nourishing materials, and create new apparatus as a way of claiming a return to the essential, to our roots. Bodies sizing each other up, confronting each other, supporting each other, then taming each other to finally find their anchorage in the ancestral earth.
The commitment is total, oscillating between weight, tension and balance. The writing, free and plural, sketches the new face of contemporary African circus.

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