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Revue de presse

Compagnie les mains les pieds et la tête aussi / Direction artistique : Mathurin Bolze

2016 /2017

Fenêtres et Barons perchés

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And being stuck in a tree is, curiously enough, the subject of Mathurin Bolze’s Baronsperchés. He is back at London’s international mime festival from France – or perhaps one

should say he has bounced back, in that he is an extraordinary trampolinist. He delighted

audiences in 2005 with his Fenêtres, based on Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees,

about an aristocrat who decides to give his heritage the slip and live at the top of the

trees on his estate. This is the astonishing sequel, set in what appears to be a threadbare

treehouse with swinging lamps, white sheets, a showing of leaves. This time the baron is

not alone: he has a friend/shadow/adversary – a possibly imaginary alter ego (Karim

Messaoudi). The beauty of the work is in the way that it extends casual routine into

dance. This is action as a form of thought. A collage of sound – birdsong, a cello, voices

from a clapped-out wireless – accompanies this mesmerising double act. Sometimes the

barons seem to be playing a gymnastic version of snakes and ladders. They climb the

walls, hurl themselves in the direction of lamps, reach for the light. And after each

dramatic, backwards drop on to the trampoline, there is a beauty about the way they

recover themselves into stillness.

Star ratings (out of 5)

The Kite Runner ★★★Barons perchés ★★★★

• The Kite Runner is booking at Wyndham’s, London until 11 March

‘Action as a form of thought’: Karim Messaoudi and MathurinBolze in Barons perchés. Photograph: Christophe Raynaud DeLage

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