Compagnie Basinga (France)
Soka Tira Osoa
A tightrope walking performance propelled by a live band, Soka Tira Osoa by French tightrope walking company Basinga relies on the public—blurring the line between audience and performer. Loosely translated to “pulling the rope,” Soka Tira Osoa is both a spectacular and participatory project: an aerial spectacle of moving humanity, making its US premiere at PS21.
Playing with the codes of the show, Soka Tira Osoa places all the trades in the place of the artist: riggers, musicians, sound engineer, tightrope walker. Everyone starts from the ground before rising.
Basinga aims to develop, expand, transmit and communicate the art of tightrope walking which—better than any other—reveals how our greatness is based on our weaknesses and our ability to combine them. Convinced that a tightrope crossing is only possible thanks to the help and involvement of everyone, Basinga aims to ask questions around togetherness and the importance of each individual’s role in the greater collective.
Basinga will be in residence at PS21 throughout the week leading up to the performance, offering free tightrope walking workshops.
Two works of fire and wire, of experiments in physics and materiality cloaked in a circus guise. Free to all outdoors we finish our summer with a program of new circus and bold vision.
Tatiana-Mosio Bongonga, Tightrope artist and co-artistic director
Jan Naets, Technician/Rigger and co-artistic director
Adrien Amey, Musician
Mael Bongini, Technician/Rigger
Djeylaroz, Musician
Francois-Xavier Delaby, Sound Technician
Geoffrey Durcak, Sound Technician
Lovisa Elwerdotter, Singer
Gael Honegger, Technician/Rigger
Simon Pourque, Technician/Rigger
Mathilde Wahl, Production Manager
Camille Foucher, Touring Manager
Louisa Gesset-Hernandez, Costume Design
Deborah Benveniste, Stage Direction Collaboration
Production: Lila Bouguin-Villiers, Camille Foucher, Marie Faucher and Mathilde Wahl
Basinga is a french company gathered around the art of high-wire walking. Through research, teaching, sharing and through the production of high-quality participative shows, Basinga seeks to develop, expand, transmit and communicate this art which, better than any other, illustrates how our greatness is based on our weaknesses and our ability to combine them. What brings us together, makes us stronger.
Co-productions : Scènes et Cinés, scène conventionnée Art en territoire Istres / CIRCa PNC Auch Gers Occitanie / FURIES-Le PALC PNC Châlons-en-Champagne et le Théâtre de la Madeleine Troyes / l’Agora PNC Boulazac Aquitaine / La Verrerie PNC Alès et l’Oktopus, Sauve / Les Scènes Croisées de Lozère et le Rudeboy Crew, Les Ateliers Médicis, Clichy-sous-Bois / ARCHAOS PNC Méditerranée |Residency : Centre de Création Artistique et Technique NIL OBSTRAT / Scène nationale Carré-Colonnes
The basinga company is supported for all its projects by the Ministry of Culture – DRAC Occitanie, by Gard Department, and by the BNP Paribas Foundation.
