A long-time artistic accomplice of Les Tombées de la Nuit, acrobat and circus artist Chloé Moglia explores all the possibilities of aerial suspension. In a powerful and deeply attuned dialogue with her fellow acrobats — the “suspensives” — she and her company invent aerial writings around structures that are as much sculptures (La Spire, 2019) as acrobatic solos such as Bleu tenace and Rouge Merveille. A singular, fascinating aerial poetry she will unfold here, as a solo performance and as a gift, in a unique experience set to the music of Philip Glass in the Cloître Saint-Melaine.
A long-time artistic accomplice of Les Tombées de la Nuit, acrobat and circus artist Chloé Moglia explores all the possibilities of aerial suspension. In a powerful and deeply attuned dialogue with her fellow acrobats — the “suspensives” — she and her company invent aerial writings around structures that are as much sculptures (La Spire, 2019) as acrobatic solos such as Bleu tenace and Rouge Merveille. A singular, fascinating aerial poetry she will unfold here, as a solo performance and as a gift, in a unique experience set to the music of Philip Glass in the Cloître Saint-Melaine.
BIOGRAPHY
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Born in Perpignan in 1978, Chloé Moglia trained in trapeze at the École Nationale des Arts du Cirque in Rosny-sous-Bois (ENACR), then at the Centre national des arts du cirque in Châlons-en-Champagne (CNAC), before undertaking training in martial arts. With Mélissa Von Vépy, she founded Compagnie Moglice Von Verx around aerial disciplines. In 2009, she set up her new company, Compagnie Rhizome, in Vannes, Brittany, and created, as a solo artist, Nimbus (2007), Rhizikon (2009), Opus Corpus (2012), Horizon (2013), as well as the duo Le Vertige (2012) and several performances. She then went on to develop suspensions on every scale through Ose (2014), Infinitudes (2014), Aléas (2015), La Spire (2017), Midi/ Minuit (2018), 384 647 km (2019), L’Oiseau-lignes (2019), Bleu tenace (2021), Biface (2021), Rhizikon (reprise, 2022), Anima (2022) and Rouge Merveille (2024). Suspension and martial arts are the root materials of her artistic practice. In a feminist approach, Chloé Moglia trains only women in suspension.
DISTRIBUTION
Chloé Moglia (design and suspension), Eric Noel and Silvain Ohl (design and construction of the structure), Music – Étude n°5 by Philip Glass (performed by Vanessa Wagner (album Philip Glass, The Complete Piano Studies)), Sylvain Pecker (stage management), Marie Chénard, Lucie Vignal, Oriane Civeyrac and Pauline Merdy (production), Florence Bourgeon (distribution)
PRODUCTION
Rhizome (production), Les Tombées de la Nuit – Rennes (co-production)
Rhizome is subsidized by the French Ministry of Culture – DRAC of Brittany, and receives support for its projects from the Brittany Region and the Morbihan Department.
Rhizome – Chloé Moglia is an associate of Les Tombées de la Nuit in Rennes and a resident of the Théâtre de Lorient, a national drama center.
