Suzanne : Une Histoire du Cirque

Suzanne: une histoire du cirque Was the circus of yesterday crazier, freer, more dangerous than today's?

Suzanne: une histoire du cirque

Was the circus of yesterday crazier, freer, more dangerous than today's? Through the words of Suzanne, a former trapeze artist from the “golden age,” another history of the circus emerges. By retracing her epic journey, Anna Tauber and Fragan Gehlker compose a sensitive and thrilling narrative, where intimate memory and the history of circus arts echo each other, touching us deeply. In the 1950s, Suzanne and her husband Roger, alias Les Antinoüs, electrified stages worldwide with a breathtaking aerial act. Ten metres from the ground, without a net or safety, each performance was an absolute challenge: vital precision, total commitment, permanent risk. Decades later, Anna Tauber meets this woman and discovers a life of archives, memories, yellowed photos… but one significant absence: no filmed footage of the act. Thus begins a fascinating investigation, between documentary research and an almost obsessive quest. Can this vanished gesture be reconstructed? What remains of an art that lives only in the moment and in memory? Alone on stage, blending first-person narration, images, sounds, and attempts at recreation, Anna Tauber draws us into a hybrid experience, at the crossroads of show, film, and lecture, weaving a fascinating reflection between the circus of yesteryear and its current practice. A necessarily dizzying story.

Duration: 1h20