"how much we carry"
is an artistic and human experience that creates ephemeral performance spaces in everyday locations. An urban and acrobatic proposal emerges in the heart of a neighborhood, a crowd, a public square. It invites people to pause and meet, around an atypical object — a giant pole — in a state of constant imbalance.
The show offers a sensitive reflection on the double meaning of the word “carry”: what we carry with us, and the way we care — for ourselves, for a group, or for someone else. Among all these people, two individuals carry with them everything they have found along the way. All that is needed, is to meet at a specific place, at a specific moment, with no predefined space — just a group of strangers gathering around this vertiginous ascension, as a pretext for encounter.
Public space circus performance
Creation: 2026
Duration: 30 /35 minutes
Audience: all ages
Co-created and performed by
Débora Fransolin & Marin Garnier
Artistic team
Music : Célyne Baudino
Outside eyes : Maxime Steffan, Karine Noël, Maria Carolina Vieira
Costume design: Raphaëlle Weber
Technical management & logistics : Camille Mangeant
Administration: Eloïse Bosq
Pole construction : Matthieu Audejean – Ateliers Sud Side
Support and residency hosts :
École nationale de cirque de Châtellerault (86)
Rue Watt – Coopérative 2r2c (75)
Château de Monthelon – Atelier International de Fabrique Artistique (89)
Le Plongeoir – National Circus Hub, Le Mans, Sarthe Pays de la Loire (72)
13 Sens – Scène & Ciné, Obernai (67)
Co-production and residency hosts :
Le PALC – National Circus Hub, Châlons-en-Champagne (51)
CirQ’ônflex – Circus Platform in Bourgogne–Franche-Comté (21)
Archaos – National Circus Hub, Marseille (13)
La Transverse – Creation space for public space arts (58)
Zim Zam – Circus and Disability Hub (84)
Ay-Roop – Territorial venue for circus arts (35)
Lieux publics – National Center and European hub for creation, Marseille (13) Le Carré Magique – National Circus Hub in Brittany (22)
With the support of the Région Sud as part of the Carte Blanche aux Artistes (CBA) program, the Rayon C – Circus Platform in Bourgogne–Franche-Comté (laureates 2024–2026), and the R.I.R Network – Interregional Street Arts Network (2026–2027).
