© Pierre Morel
Show
MONOGRAPHIE
Defracto
January 17 – 18, 2026
FROM 5 YEARS
Running time: 50'
Tickets
Full: €18
Under 30 / over 65 / groups: €12
Students: €9
Membership: included with subscription
An explosive juggling solo, MONOGRAPHIE unfolds like a living cartoon, at once graphic, absurd, and delightfully burlesque. Its protagonist, obsessive and excessive, rehearses his own death again and again, convinced that repetition is the best way not to miss it. Without uttering a word, he bends constraints until the unexpected breaks free. With Guillaume Martinet as our guide, we are swept into a world bordering on the absurd, a space where everything is permitted. MONOGRAPHIE is a juggling score, composed in seven episodes. It defines itself, asks for no justification, and by nature delights in a vast freedom—the freedom to invent its own reality. A boundless creative space where anything is possible, where coherence exists simply because everything is imagined.
Since its founding in 2009, Defracto has brought its juggling works to life more than 700 times, in 40 countries across five continents. Their creation - where bodies multiply and juggling constantly escapes expectation - are the outcome of over ten years of exploration into expressive juggling and physical comedy. Monographie distills this journey into a bespoke composition, a synthesis of everything their juggling has become.
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Performance intended for children aged 5 and up
Credits
Choreographic creation and performance: Guillaume Martinet
Assistant director: Yann Frisch
Visual design and scenography: Margot Seigneurie
Juggling consultant: Fabrizio Solinas
Production: Loyse Delhomme
Technician: Florent Goetgheluck / Tanguy Le Hir
Photographie: Pierre Morel
Original music: Sylvain Quément
Costume design: Sofia Bencherif-Dissard
Research assistance: Dimas Tivane, Paul Roussier
Thanks to Laure Caillat and Anne-Agathe Prin for production coordination, and to Franck Bernard, Christian Mousseau-Fernandez and Julien Seigneurie for their technical support.
Partners:
La Maison du Jonglage – Scène conventionnée – La Courneuve
Le Plongeoir – Pôle National Cirque – Le Mans
La Brèche à Cherbourg & le Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf – Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie Cirq'Ônflex – Cirque Contemporain – Dijon
Le Carré Magique – Pôle National Cirque – Lannion
Archaos – Pôle National Cirque – Marseille
Dommelhof – Circuswerkplaats – Neerpelt (BE)
Miramiro – Circuswerkplaats – Gand (BE)
Réseau CIEL et les Transversales – Verdun
Les 7 Collines – Saint Etienne
CircusNext – Paris
La Piste aux Espoirs – Tournai (BE)
With the support of the DRAC Île-de-France, the Île-de-France Region, and the Seine-Saint-Denis Department
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