The Weight of Soul – Everything is Temporary

The show The Weight of the Soul-Everything is Temporary, with innovative stage language, speaks of fear, pronunciation and self-confidence, fragile features, signs and meanings. It is about threads and a thin line that connects our impulses with our rationality. Chiara Marchese combines circus and puppetry. In The Weight of the Soul-Everything is Temporary, she reinvents her own apparatus – the slack wire – to make it interact with a human-sized puppet, made of intertwined narrow strings. This performance shakes up the sensations of the spectator who questions their interior and their way of conceiving the concepts of the “ironic”, the “catastrophic”, the “autobiographical”, just like their own sensitivity to a naked body which does not want to talk about sexuality, if not transparency and generosity; in tandem with the puppet which reflects its opposites, in matter, materials, colour, presence and absence alternately.

2021, 75 min, in French with English translation

Author and perfomer: Chiara Marchese; Artisitic advisors:Francesca Lattuada, Julie Mondor, Marion Collé, Chloée Sanchez; Sound design: Alexis Auffray, Geoffrey Dugas; Light design: Bernard Revel; Psychodynamic creative consultant: Dott Alberto Giorni; Construction, puppets, costumes and small objects design: Chiara Marchese; Scenography conception: Bernard Revel and Chiara Marchese; General manager / sound manager: Geoffrey Dugas; Administration: Anne Delépine; Production: Marie Pluchart and Julie Mouton - Triptyque Production; Organisation: City of Women in collaboration with Bunker and Old Power Station - Elektro Ljubljana; Supported by: Teatroskop, a program initiated by French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, French Ministry of Culture and Institut français Paris, Ministry of Culture Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana.