- Performance Art
- Performance Art
- Dance
Always falling into a hole
Léo Aubin St-Jean
4 July 2026 19:00–20:00
5 July 2026 17:00–18:00
Always falling into a hole —
A body falls. A body rises. Again and again.
Inspired by the poem What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t by Anne Boyer, this multidisciplinary circus solo unfolds around a simple yet haunting structure: the fall, and the impulse to get back up.
At the center of the performance lies the image of the hole—both physical and conceptual. A place of exhaustion, collapse, and dead end, but also a space where change, resistance, and momentum can emerge. The body navigates these shifting borders through circus movement, tracing the fragile line between imbalance and persistence in an unpredictable environment . Falling is not an accident to avoid, but a condition to inhabit.
Echoing Boyer’s reflections on the systemic holes we can’t avoid—fatigue, illness, oppressive structures—the performance celebrates the persistence of getting back up.
Balancing physical risk with poetic imagery, the piece creates a landscape where collapse and resilience coexist.—one movement at a time.
A body falls. A body rises. Again and again.
Inspired by the poem What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t by Anne Boyer, this multidisciplinary circus solo unfolds around a simple yet haunting structure: the fall, and the impulse to get back up.
At the center of the performance lies the image of the hole—both physical and conceptual. A place of exhaustion, collapse, and dead end, but also a space where change, resistance, and momentum can emerge. The body navigates these shifting borders through circus movement, tracing the fragile line between imbalance and persistence in an unpredictable environment . Falling is not an accident to avoid, but a condition to inhabit.
Echoing Boyer’s reflections on the systemic holes we can’t avoid—fatigue, illness, oppressive structures—the performance celebrates the persistence of getting back up.
Balancing physical risk with poetic imagery, the piece creates a landscape where collapse and resilience coexist.—one movement at a time.
Biography
Léo Aubin St-Jean
Léo Aubin St-Jean (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist from Canada who lives in Berlin. They first completed their studies as an acupuncturist in Montréal while also becoming involved in the social circus community there. Their current artistic work combines circus, contemporary dance, visual arts, and a political approach to healthcare and the artist's body. They seek to create a language of movement expression that reflects part of our current reality, queer identity, the absurdities and challenges of life, with a deeply human presence on stage.
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