Airelle, you co-founded Compagnie XY, one of the largest contemporary circus collectives. Your creations are based on acrobatics in the group, the community, the collective. What did you want to achieve and what phases has the company gone through on its artistic path since it was founded?
AC: We started 15 years ago as three duos doing hand-to-hand acrobatics with slightly academic training. We got to experiment a lot with duos, which more or less reinforced them. That is how the collective adventure came about. We started with six, today we are forty. The more bodies, the more possibilities. I have the feeling that we have always followed a path. As if we were pursuing a feeling. It’s the same artistically. Our work is portées acrobatiques – carrying and being carried. The important thing for us is the community aspect of this discipline. We take on such broad themes and explore how we can render them physically, with our acrobatics. But we also ask ourselves – how do we incorporate dance? How do we incorporate movement? For us, acrobatics and movement belong together. How can you walk, climb on top of someone or fly through the air with the...