Mathilde Roy (FR)

She gets closer to the arts of dance and clowning, after studying at circus schools (the Lido in Toulouse and the CRAC in Lomme). Curious about all means of expression, she sees her body as a laboratory and makes it the main vehicle for what she stands for. Her particular approach of the circus technique of hand balancing is to seek several ways of freeing the body in an apparently fixed discipline. Since 2009, she has devoted most of her time to creating and presenting shows in the frame of the Muchmuche Company, which she co-founded with Paul-Cretin Sombardier. The company’s creations are designed for public space or non-dedicated spaces, and hybridise the circus arts, dance and the visual arts. Mathilde also works with a lot of French artistic companies, including La Francomtoise de Rue, Defracto and EA EO.

Her prototype is Porøs. (time 1h)
Porøs has been developed in an immersion residency in Helsingør, hosted by Helsingør Teaterin Denmark with local partners U/NORD, Hal 16 Martime Workshop Association and commercial fisher Søren Jacobsen.

Porøs is a guided, offbeat, and poetic tour of Helsingør but transposed to another place than Helsingør.
A group embarks on a silent journey that connects us to the sea (even if there is no sea), to boats (even if there are none), and perhaps to something deeper.
Slowness and silence make room for what is more discreet, less visible.
This guided walk is designed as an opportunity to offer oneself the time to be a poet.
Through the prism of departure and transition, we will look at things anew, and consider the physical, and perhaps even the mystical, connections between boats, the sea, and us.
The duration of the journey may vary, depending on the group’s experiences along the way. It is around one hour but can me more...