L'Autre Cirque (long program)

Royaume s’effondre Royaume s’effondre is an auteur circus piece performed by six artists and grounded in a biographical approach. Inspired by the recent departure of the artist’s father, it unfolds in five chapters tracing the impulses, silences, and imbalances that led him to leave everything behind and begin a new life in Thailand. Through this intimate narrative, the artist explores inherited legacies, models of masculinity shaped by a patriarchal society, and the influence of family codes on their generation—particularly in how romantic and emotional relationships are approached. Now living in Thailand, the father also stands at the center of this new chapter, occupying an ambivalent position: that of an aging Western man in a foreign country, whose origin and relative economic privilege grant him a form of implicit power. This tension between escape, risk-taking, and power becomes a thread through which to understand the contours of his transformation. From this singular story, the piece opens up broader questions around the transmission of masculine roles.