Working with real deer antlers, used both as circus apparatus and as a meeting point between animal and human imaginaries, choreographer and circus artist Fanny Soriano creates a fascinating metaphorical ballet for three female dancers. Performed and sung live, the music becomes song, cries, breaths, rutting calls and natural percussion. Acrobatic, aesthetic, and marked by a feminine pack energy, Faune explores our animal nature and our relationship to the wild world. Suspended between earth and sky, at the meeting point of dance and circus arts, it reveals the power of both animal and woman.
Working with real deer antlers, used both as circus apparatus and as a meeting point between animal and human imaginaries, choreographer and circus artist Fanny Soriano creates a fascinating metaphorical ballet for three female dancers. Performed and sung live, the music becomes song, cries, breaths, rutting calls and natural percussion. Acrobatic, aesthetic, and marked by a feminine pack energy, Faune explores our animal nature and our relationship to the wild world. Suspended between earth and sky, at the meeting point of dance and circus arts, it reveals the power of both animal and woman.
BIOGRAPHY
> FANNY SORIANO / COMPAGNIE LIBERTIVORE (FR)
A graduate of the Centre national des arts du cirque in Châlons-en-Champagne, choreographer, dancer and aerial acrobat Fanny Soriano founded Compagnie Libertivore in 2005 with Jules Beckman (musician and performer), after many encounters and collaborations with Archaos, Cirque Plume, Jacques Rebotier, Cahin-Caha and Collectif AOC, among others. Now solely at the helm of the company, she develops an artistic language rooted in aerial circus disciplines, contact dance and improvised performance. After the solos Hêtre and Fractales (2012), health issues forced her to stop her aerial work. In 2015, she adapted Hêtre into a short form for an aerial dancer and a suspended branch, and joined La Ruche at Le Zef, scène nationale de Marseille. Since 2017, she has asserted a choreographic practice centred on humankind and nature, through works such as Phasmes, Silva, Fractales, Éther, Brame and Faune.
DISTRIBUTION
Fanny Soriano (concept, choreography), Nina Harper, Camille Guichard, Victoire Godard (performers), Jules Beckman (musical composition), Karine Berny (song composition and writing), Gregory Cosenza (mixing), Maya Lune Thiéblemont (costumes), Laureline Richard (choreography collaboration), Sophie Borthwick (dramaturgy collaboration), Marie-Julie Peters-Desteract (set design collaboration), Compagnie Libertivore (production)
PRODUCTION
Co-productions
City of Mende – Théâtre de Mende and Musée du Gévaudan, Archaos National Circus Center – Marseille, Théâtre Jean Lurçat National Stage of Aubusson, Millevaches en Limousin Regional Natural Park, CNAREP LE CITRON JAUNE, National Center for Street Arts and Public Space – Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, La Verrerie National Circus Center Occitanie, Le Plongeoir, National Circus Center – Le Mans Sarthe Pays-de-la-Loire, Le Plus Petit cirque du Monde – Bagneux, La Transverse, Creative Space – Corbigny, Co-produced by HEXAGONE SCÈNE NATIONALE and co-financed by the Creative Europe program as part of the STUDIOTOPIA 2 project, Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Sciences.
Support
Libertivore is supported by the DRAC PACA (Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur) / Operating grant from the SUD Region / Functional grant from the Bouches-du-Rhône Departmental Council and the City of Marseille
With the support of the Bouches-du-Rhône Department – Departmental Center for Artist-in-Residence Programs.
Fanny Soriano is an associate artist at Les 2 Scènes – Besançon National Stage.
PREMIERE JULY 11 AND 13, 2025 at the Millevaches Regional Natural Park and the Étang des Landes with the Théâtre Jean Lurçat, Aubusson National Stage
