More than thirty years ago, in his Slava's Snowshow, the famous Russian clown Slava Polunin struggled with the elements. Imagined by Pierre Meunier for the first time in 1996, L'Homme de plein vent features two men fighting against weightlessness. Even risking their lives to avoid a crane hook or what looks like cannonballs. Sweating, screaming and blowing, Pierre Meunier and Hervé Pierre metamorphose into stage athletes. It is not surprising to learn that they went through the CNRS Gravitation and Relativistic Cosmology Laboratory to prepare.
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Unlike Slava Polunin, the two actors, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza of modern times, speak, tell anecdotes, say poems - not always distinct -, hum and exchange confidences between two spectacular experiences to free themselves from the rules in force in humans. There is Kutsch (Hervé Pierre), an auditor of weights and measures...
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