This is a sight like an oxymoron.
Pli
combines circus and paper, a marriage of opposites with lots of rhymes and very little reason.
Inbal Ben Haim, fixed trapeze and rope specialist, designed this show with visual artists Alexis Merat and Domitille Martin.
Extreme body which rises and flies away, relying on it, for its salvation, and this is nonsense, on the fragility of tissue paper.
Who packs, resists, bursts, ambiguous and multiplied as in the game of rock-paper-scissors.
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The paper arrives in rolls, unfolds in sheets, is wiped in a skein, crumpled in shelter, stretched out in vines.
Inbal Ben Haim responds to each proposal as one turns the pages of a good novel.
Do we bring him rolls?
She pushes them onto the bar of a trapeze and balances herself, standing, one foot on each of them.
She deploys them too.
Meters of white tissue paper against meters of kraft paper, she hooks them to a pulley, hoists them to the top of the marquee, twists them, twists them…
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