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Rouge Merveille – Chloé Moglia and the Rhizome Company in Amiens
Le 11 september 2026 at 21:00
Red Wonder
Price
Free : Tout public
On Friday, September 11, 2026, the Cirque Jules Verne – Pôle National Cirque Amiens opens its 2026-2027 season with a free evening open to all. The presentation of the new program will begin at 7:30 p.m., followed at 9:00 p.m. by Rouge Merveille, a creation by Compagnie Rhizome directed by Chloé Moglia.
Created in 2024, Rouge Merveille is a contemporary circus show dedicated to suspension, gravity, and the presence of the body above the void. Alone facing the audience, Mélusine Lavinet-Drouet moves on a striking red metal structure, simultaneously apparatus, sculpture, and living mechanism.
The performance begins around a structure reminiscent of a monumental clock. The performer herself sets in motion a toothed wheel connected to a pinion in order to gradually straighten a long metal line. When this line reaches the vertical, like a clock hand at noon, it is time to ascend.
Mélusine Lavinet-Drouet then rises above the ground and enters a space where every gesture demands extreme attention. Suspended at arm's length, she doesn't seek to perform spectacular feats. On the contrary, she inhabits slowness, waiting, silence, and imbalance. The slightest change in posture, the smallest breath, or the slightest movement takes on a particular intensity.
In Chloé Moglia's world, suspension is not merely an aerial discipline. It becomes a way of thinking about and experiencing the world. The void is no longer simply a danger; it becomes a space for exploration. Gravity is not fought but observed, accepted, and used as an artistic material.
The performance is based on a central idea: constraints can become catalysts for inventiveness. The structure imposes its own rules, as do body weight, height, and the risk of falling. Yet, these limitations do not close off possibilities. On the contrary, they open up a playground where the performer invents a unique way of standing, moving, and engaging with the gazes gathered around her.
Gradually, Mélusine Lavinet-Drouet seems to belong to this suspended space. She interacts with the structure, with the music, with time, and with the presence of the audience. She is fully focused on each movement while allowing herself to be carried away by sensations, thoughts, and imaginings. Her body then becomes the starting point of a sensory experience capable of conjuring worlds from almost nothing.
With Rouge Merveille, Chloé Moglia continues the research developed over many years by Rhizome around what she calls the "gravity of the void". The company deliberately returns to a very simple yet inexhaustible situation: a woman suspended by her arms above the ground.
The aim is not to explore a new theme with each creation, but to patiently delve into the same axis in an attempt to uncover something unknown, unpredictable, or barely perceptible. Suspension thus becomes an infinite artistic territory, where the relationship between strength and fragility, control and surrender, attention and reverie is renewed with each performance.
Rouge Merveille was conceived for and with Mélusine Lavinet-Drouet. The artist joined the Rhizome "suspensive" team in 2018 to fill in for a replacement. She initially performed in sequences created for other performers before becoming an essential member of the team.
This experience gave rise to a unique way of working based on lending, borrowing, transmission, and reciprocity. Mélusine Lavinet-Drouet explored almost every aspect of La Spire, another emblematic creation of the company. By delicately reinventing each path, she incorporated elements of the work and sensibilities of the various artists of Rhizome.
This accumulation of experience has nurtured a unique stage presence, in which discretion is combined with a very strong presence and great openness. His work outside the company, notably marked by collaborations with Alexander Vantournhout, Sébastien Ly, and Nathan Israël, also enriches his performance.
Marielle Chatain's original music accompanies this suspended journey. Mélusine Lavinet-Drouet has developed a particularly attentive ear for her soundscape. Sounds, breaths, and silences converse with the body's movements and contribute to creating an atmosphere that is at once intimate, tense, and contemplative.
The suspension structure, designed and built by Éric Noël and Silvain Ohl, plays a crucial role in the performance. It is not simply a technical support: it becomes a true partner in the performance, which the performer builds, operates, straightens, and inhabits.
The show also contains an excerpt from Brain, a text by the author and poet Laura Vazquez.
Through a minimalist scenography consisting of a red line, a mechanism, the sky, and a body, Rouge Merveille invites the audience to slow down. The gaze gradually shifts from the purely physical feat to focus on attentiveness, silence, and the fragility of the moment.
The work thus offers a moment of contemporary circus that is at once physical, poetic, and philosophical. It questions our relationship to space, time, balance, and risk, but also our capacity to be fully present to what unfolds before us.
The production has been presented in numerous venues and festivals in France and abroad, notably in Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, and Germany. In August 2025, France Culture described it as a poetic and breathtaking spectacle that invites us to rethink space, time, and our presence in the world.
In Amiens, the performance is offered free of charge as part of the Cirque Jules Verne's season opening. With a running time of approximately 35 minutes, it is suitable for all audiences and offers a wonderful opportunity to discover the work of Chloé Moglia and Compagnie Rhizome in one of France's leading contemporary circus venues.
Created in 2024, Rouge Merveille is a contemporary circus show dedicated to suspension, gravity, and the presence of the body above the void. Alone facing the audience, Mélusine Lavinet-Drouet moves on a striking red metal structure, simultaneously apparatus, sculpture, and living mechanism.
The performance begins around a structure reminiscent of a monumental clock. The performer herself sets in motion a toothed wheel connected to a pinion in order to gradually straighten a long metal line. When this line reaches the vertical, like a clock hand at noon, it is time to ascend.
Mélusine Lavinet-Drouet then rises above the ground and enters a space where every gesture demands extreme attention. Suspended at arm's length, she doesn't seek to perform spectacular feats. On the contrary, she inhabits slowness, waiting, silence, and imbalance. The slightest change in posture, the smallest breath, or the slightest movement takes on a particular intensity.
In Chloé Moglia's world, suspension is not merely an aerial discipline. It becomes a way of thinking about and experiencing the world. The void is no longer simply a danger; it becomes a space for exploration. Gravity is not fought but observed, accepted, and used as an artistic material.
The performance is based on a central idea: constraints can become catalysts for inventiveness. The structure imposes its own rules, as do body weight, height, and the risk of falling. Yet, these limitations do not close off possibilities. On the contrary, they open up a playground where the performer invents a unique way of standing, moving, and engaging with the gazes gathered around her.
Gradually, Mélusine Lavinet-Drouet seems to belong to this suspended space. She interacts with the structure, with the music, with time, and with the presence of the audience. She is fully focused on each movement while allowing herself to be carried away by sensations, thoughts, and imaginings. Her body then becomes the starting point of a sensory experience capable of conjuring worlds from almost nothing.
With Rouge Merveille, Chloé Moglia continues the research developed over many years by Rhizome around what she calls the "gravity of the void". The company deliberately returns to a very simple yet inexhaustible situation: a woman suspended by her arms above the ground.
The aim is not to explore a new theme with each creation, but to patiently delve into the same axis in an attempt to uncover something unknown, unpredictable, or barely perceptible. Suspension thus becomes an infinite artistic territory, where the relationship between strength and fragility, control and surrender, attention and reverie is renewed with each performance.
Rouge Merveille was conceived for and with Mélusine Lavinet-Drouet. The artist joined the Rhizome "suspensive" team in 2018 to fill in for a replacement. She initially performed in sequences created for other performers before becoming an essential member of the team.
This experience gave rise to a unique way of working based on lending, borrowing, transmission, and reciprocity. Mélusine Lavinet-Drouet explored almost every aspect of La Spire, another emblematic creation of the company. By delicately reinventing each path, she incorporated elements of the work and sensibilities of the various artists of Rhizome.
This accumulation of experience has nurtured a unique stage presence, in which discretion is combined with a very strong presence and great openness. His work outside the company, notably marked by collaborations with Alexander Vantournhout, Sébastien Ly, and Nathan Israël, also enriches his performance.
Marielle Chatain's original music accompanies this suspended journey. Mélusine Lavinet-Drouet has developed a particularly attentive ear for her soundscape. Sounds, breaths, and silences converse with the body's movements and contribute to creating an atmosphere that is at once intimate, tense, and contemplative.
The suspension structure, designed and built by Éric Noël and Silvain Ohl, plays a crucial role in the performance. It is not simply a technical support: it becomes a true partner in the performance, which the performer builds, operates, straightens, and inhabits.
The show also contains an excerpt from Brain, a text by the author and poet Laura Vazquez.
Through a minimalist scenography consisting of a red line, a mechanism, the sky, and a body, Rouge Merveille invites the audience to slow down. The gaze gradually shifts from the purely physical feat to focus on attentiveness, silence, and the fragility of the moment.
The work thus offers a moment of contemporary circus that is at once physical, poetic, and philosophical. It questions our relationship to space, time, balance, and risk, but also our capacity to be fully present to what unfolds before us.
The production has been presented in numerous venues and festivals in France and abroad, notably in Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, and Germany. In August 2025, France Culture described it as a poetic and breathtaking spectacle that invites us to rethink space, time, and our presence in the world.
In Amiens, the performance is offered free of charge as part of the Cirque Jules Verne's season opening. With a running time of approximately 35 minutes, it is suitable for all audiences and offers a wonderful opportunity to discover the work of Chloé Moglia and Compagnie Rhizome in one of France's leading contemporary circus venues.
- Page officielle du spectacle au Cirque Jules Verne
- Site officiel du Cirque Jules Verne
- Billetterie officielle du Cirque Jules Verne
- Page officielle de Rouge Merveille sur le site de Rhizome
- Site officiel de la Compagnie Rhizome
- Dossier de présentation du spectacle
- Instagram de la Compagnie Rhizome / Chloé Moglia
- Facebook de la Compagnie Rhizome / Chloé Moglia
- YouTube de Rhizome – Chloé Moglia
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