M.E.M.M: in the wrong place at the wrong time. This was the case for Alice Barraud, a hand-to-hand and acrobalance acrobat, who was shot in the arm during the attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris. Now, flying is impossible. However, this circus performer decided otherwise. Accompanied by musician Raphaël de Pressigny (Feu! Chatterton), she tells us, through her body, words and music, about the years spent fighting to regain her passion. The duo leads us through the contradictory consequences of a reconstruction: an explosive dance of inevitable pain and anger, a burlesque in a hospital room, a sometimes overwhelming sense of madness and paranoia, the difficult and gentle integration of a disability, but also – and most importantly – the imagination required to take flight again, to transcend tragedy and allow the beauty and humour to flourish from the chaos.
