Cie des Chaussons Rouges

The Red Slippers Company, founded in Brussels in 2012 by Audrey Bossuyt and Marta Lodoli, is a troupe of tightrope walkers and wire artists who come together to explore new ways of utilizing the tightrope apparatus. Their questioning of traditional tightrope walking leads them to invent other ways of using the balancing pole, to exploit the space of the wire, and to propose a personal, organic body language that is consistent with the dramaturgy of their performances. 

In Little Celestial Navigation, two tightrope walkers tell, in a gentle and slow narration, the trust that each one has in the other. This symbiotic duo is disrupted in Hircus by the arrival of a third tightrope walker with overflowing energy and a playful, unpredictable, and whimsical character. It feels like seeing mountain roads appear, or are they life paths? We hear the echo of vast spaces and the pendulum of the inner time of the three characters. Three headstrong women, three strong characters play with the contours of this trio: alliance, trust, unison, individuality. 

The company is currently touring with Nadir, a choreographic show with a minimalist visual. This show is a continuation and evolution of a journey, without words. It relates two dimensions, one celestial and the other terrestrial, and makes them physically interact through the tightrope walkers. Nadir explores the possibility of inhabiting a space where coordinates are relative. Up, down, direction, counter-direction, forward and backward are only a matter of perspective. 

The invisible dream takes shape and leads the audience into a perched universe, suspended in time, which comes to life above their heads. The audience is transported into imaginary projections, they experience flight, while becoming aware of their grounding to the earth, the ground beneath their feet.

The Red Slippers Company is a member of Aires Libres a.s.b.l., consultation of street arts, circus arts, and fairground arts.