Le Pas du Monde - Collectif XY

A CREATION BY THE XY COLLECTIVE

(May 2025)

As acrobats, we shape mountains with our bodies to shore up this world whose fate we are sealing, chart rivers and swaying forests with our modulating movements ….

Following the guiding inspiration of the starling murmuration in Möbius and nourished by the in situ creativity of performing in the public arena with Les Voyages, we have now chosen to immerse ourselves in metamorphoses of the living world… and to surrender our human-centred visions to it.

To seize the ebb and flow of Time that erodes mountain peaks just as it crumbles our vertebrae… that writes History and is inexorable, creates the newborn baby and makes the tree decay….

Le Pas du Monde is in a perpetual state of flux, from heart-stopping thrills to the most subtle emotion, from the slightest of movements to the tumultuous tumbling of bodies.

All linked, all connected. This creation is a humble attempt at reconciling the living world with its temporality.

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“A poetic liturgy rather, which sometimes leads this now cosmopolitan phalanstery into limbo and for which, between lifts, saltos and sprints, human pyramids and columns are simply not enough - always breathtaking.”

“And now, Pas du Monde, where one male and two female singers illuminate the figures of this 20-strong group of circus acrobats whose unique hallmark is to develop a single discipline which they push to the brink…the art of lifting.”

“From deconstructed pyramids, to swirling leaps, the collective unfurls its uniqueness entirely, without resorting to a “performance.” Here, technique always serves risk, falling, imperfection.”

“There is absolutely no doubt that, here, the XY Collective asserts its uniqueness, its ability to hone movement, like an artist who shapes a landscape, as well as promoting its ideal: a collective that is supportive, egalitarian and horizontal… while also confirming its unique style and vision in an organic, world-class show.”