A circus show mixing theatre, tenderness and carpentry.

The boxes remember the time when they were trees. Men remember they will end up in a box. So they play, climbing trees, building and riding horses or sailing fragile boats with passion and agility and with a joyful hunger to swallow up the world in a big laugh.

Between absurdity, clownery and poetry, four acrobats manipulate everything that passes through their hands and all the music that pulses in their heads. They discover that if you laugh at everything, you can never despair...

Les Argonautes got together in Brussels in 1993. Since then they have used their technical prowess in the arts of the circus to voice emotion through motion. In shows where derision rubs shoulders with the preposterous, the poetic and the pathetic, they move and are in turn moved.

They last performed in Edinburgh in 2003 as part of Aurora Nova's programme. This year they will be presenting Pas Perdus, a show they have been touring in the United States, France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Holland and Belgium for the past three years.

“If you only go to two shows this year, go see Les Argonautes twice!” The Ottawa Citizen

 

Images courtesy of A Chaudron (all top, bottom right) and P Borasci (bottom left)