One step away from the circus

For us at CMR (Charge Maximale De Rupture), five young people attending the CNAC and about to graduate, the proposal to present at Terminal this year was a real challenge. An act of trust that we made with each other, which ultimately allowed us to complete our first draft of a show and lay the foundations for a future collaboration between us.

Concretely, this creation was the product of a month of extracurricular work in the school spaces: we organized ourselves in our free time by carving out moments after classes between 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm.

The management, the creation, the direction and everything else was managed by us, who tried to divide the tasks according to each other's abilities, compensating for the other's weaknesses, a real team effort!

Each of us was excited and at the same time scared by this new experience and we clearly perceived how training and mastering your specialty is actually very far from being able to make your professional life work. Suddenly the time comes to leave the playroom and you are not ready, no one has told you how to do it!

In fact, during the circus school training path, working life often seems unattainable and distant. Everyday life leads us to spend hours and hours locked in a small room to train and try the same movement hundreds of times with the obsession of "getting stronger". In doing so, day after day, it is easy to forget the primary purpose of this work: the stage. In this experience we had to deal with problems that we had not foreseen and we realized how small details could become crucial. Starting from agreeing on the artistic taste of the work and being consistent in writing the show to driving a truck for 2200 km dividing the shifts equally.