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Creation Modou Fata Touré

Performed by Modou Fata Touré, Catarina Vilas Boas Vieira Pinto, Raphaelle Pelletier, Mamady Mara

Outside eye Dorothée Sornique

Design and construction of apparatuses Modou Fata Touré

Lighting design Grégoire de Lafond

Original musi Thomas Baudriller

Production - administration - distribution - Laura Petit

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Co-productions and residencies

L’Ecole Nationale de Cirque de Châtellerault - Les 3T-Scène Conventionnée de Châtellerault -

Le Festival Cergy Soit ! et le Théâtre des Arts de Cergy - Circa, Pôle National Cirque ; La Verrerie d’Alès, Pole National Cirque Occitanie ; padditional partners currently being sought

Support in progress

Le Département de la Vienne ;  sadditional support currently being sought

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Indoor premiere 2027
For all audiences
Estimated duration: 1 hour

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In Rol boy guiss - the heart that sees, Modou Fata Touré continues and shifts the question already running through his previous show, Ancrage: how can one find, and hold, one’s place within an artistic landscape where visible identities - whether linked to gender or origin - always seem to require justification?

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With Ancrage, the challenge was to affirm an identity: that of an African circus artist, drawing on a personal history and on apparatuses and materials rooted in his homeland. After more than one hundred performances around the world, this voice now broadens.

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It opens itself to other bodies, other cultures, other inheritances. Not to compare or oppose them, but to question what connects them: the question of one’s place.

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For this creation, Modou Fata Touré chooses to bring together on stage four artists whose paths and bodies are loaded with representation: two white women and two Black men, a female base and a female flyer, a male base and a male flyer.

This composition brings forth a sensitive parallel between different yet intimately connected struggles: on one side, women fighting against patriarchy; on the other, Black men fighting against racism. The observation is there, openly acknowledged. But Rol boy guiss does not seek to directly denounce a system or to produce a demonstrative political discourse.

What is at stake here is the individual. The intention is to work from singularities, to move beyond what bodies symbolically represent in order to look at what they are, intimately. To shift the gaze, to open another space of perception, to learn to see differently.