PIC : last shows in Toulouse !
As promised a short while ago, the postman is making a comeback. His leather bag slung over his shoulder and his yellow bicycle. A little cardboard box stuck in the spokes to make a little noise. But it’s not a motorbike engine you hear in the morning fog, it’s a thundering drum roll you can hear as far as the eye can see, so loud you wonder if it’s the lion roaring in his chocolate savannah. But no, the circus today is without the lion. The circus today is Pic. In any case, it’s our very own circus. Under our huge, grandiose big top, with its string of wooden tiers, its black-painted floor, its secret passageways and its canvas with a sophisticated sound because we’re a musical orchestra. It’s Pic at la Grainerie, near Toulouse. Our red little marquee bar, set up not far away as a compadre to warm our butts, and see you underneath the before and after.
It’s December, and already the last of them. It looks like we’ve just started, but that’s just an illusion. Behind us: sixty or so performances, played out, dreamed about, applauded or sweated over. Thousands of spectators everywhere with their eyes wide open. Pleasures both small and enormous. Yes, an enormous thing to perform, but even more to move… and to place (that’s why we’re stopping, come on…).
So here’s a rooster crowing. Pic’s last. A whole team remembering these adventures, how many people? Forty, fifty, sixty? From the making of the steel utensil to the last-minute replacement for the fateful fall. An epic team. Some bought caravans, to huddle together in the hollow of the yellow and red canvas. Others climbed mountains, ugly plastic helmets crushing their blond curls, their muscles tetanised by the climb.
Surnatural Orchestra & Cirque Inextremiste
PIC
12 to 15 & 19 to 21 December
La Grainerie
61 rue Saint Jean
Balma (31)
While others, inspired by these raw circus adventures, have invented a strange musical UFO. There are seven of them. A little form! (hmm compared to Pic) Offbeat compositions for a survival manual on an 8m track around a metal tree. Because endings are also new beginnings, Cosmo*phonie, a preview of a creation to be released in June 2025, opens the Place au Chap ball.
