Cirquons Flex has a track record of shows that blend circus, music, dance, text and images, but this new creation is probably their most intimate performance yet – and paradoxically the most universal too. With scenography and scriptwriting by Gilles Cailleau (Compagnie Attention Fragile), the couple (in real life as well as on stage) audaciously let us into the strange coincidences of their unlikely encounter. They offer a tale in motion, combining voices and bodies, acrobatics, movement and theatrics as the story is told. The performers explore themes of need, absence, perversity, impermanence, dependency and becoming trapped.

The spectators are gathered on two rows of seating, five metres away from the Chinese pole around a circular open-air ring, with a backdrop designed to reflect Reunion Island’s ring-like natural calderas, and are brought in to the intimate tale and movement of the show. Virginie Le Flaouter and Vincent Maillot draw on their ten years of artistic adventures as a couple, sharing and questioning the things that help them move forward in life.

Appuie-toi sur moi is new for the Tombées de la Nuit festival, and will be revealing its full emotive power for three nights in the schoolyard at Collège Échange, the first time the festival has used this venue.