Tsirihaka Harrivel et Vimala Pons/TOUT ÇA / QUE ÇA

In 2006, Vimala Pons and Tsirihaka Harrivel began their artistic collaboration as part of their training at higher education art schools (Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique and Centre National des Arts du Cirque). From the outset, their work has been defined by an eminently physical dimension, transforming and transcending the boundaries of theatrical genres: embracing theatricality, physicality and rhythm in a single gesture, using circus arts to create realistic effects.

Between 2006 and 2008, they created three school plays together, which would form the artistic framework for their research: Le Numéro (end-of-studies diploma from the Centre National des Arts du Cirque), La Disparition du Slow and Le Cinéma Ment (creations based on their initiative of a ‘laboratory on speech in the circus’ with various collectives).

In 2012, they created De Nos Jours (Notes On the Circus) within the Ivan Mosjoukine collective, a piece divided into 80 short notes that attempts to make sense of circus figures. The show was a huge success in France and Europe (150 performances in three seasons).

In 2016, they co-created GRANDE — a pivotal and decisive work, a music hall piece in eight auto-fictional reviews exploring love and the attractions specific to the physical challenges of music hall. In it, they defined all their principles of decomposition and recomposition. (121 performances in three seasons).

From 2018 to 2020, they created a series of TESTS at Nanterre-Amandiers, allowing them to experiment with or explore new fields that would form the basis of their project TOUT ÇA / QUE ÇA, a project of construction through the destruction of GRANDE — (Tests, Explosion, Ouverture).

In 2021, the diptych of two shows, La Dimension d’Après and Le Périmètre de Denver, foreshadows transdisciplinary intrusions (video, music, digital) and the desire to confront their fragmentary or list-based writing with an assumed fiction.

Tsirihaka Harrivel and Vimala Pons are associate artists at the CENTQUATRE (Paris) and the Lieu Unique (Nantes).

Tsirihaka Harrivel is the 2024 winner of the VILLA KUJOYAMA award.

Vimala Pons is an associate artist at the CDN d’Orléans/Val-de-Loire, the MC2-Grenoble and the Centre Dramatique National de Tours – Théâtre Olympia.

TOUT ÇA / QUE ÇA is subsidised by the Ministry of Culture – DRAC Île-de-France.

TOUT ÇA / QUE ÇA is supported by the BNP Paribas Foundation.

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Administration, production & distribution of TOUT ÇA / QUE ÇA

Mathieu Hilléreau – Les Indépendances

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Artistic coordination and production of Vimala Pons’ projects

Adeline Ferrante