The Maison des Jonglages aims to promote and recognize the richness and diversity of juggling today. Over the years, the Maison des Jonglages has become a federating epicenter through which the general public, performing arts professionals, artists and juggling enthusiasts meet juggling companies, artists in gestation and projects in progress.
The Maison des Jonglages aims to promote and recognize the richness and diversity of juggling today. Over the years, the Maison des Jonglages has become a federating epicenter through which the general public, performing arts professionals, artists and juggling enthusiasts meet juggling companies, artists in gestation and projects in progress.
Juggling is a rich, diversified and very open art. A practice dating back several millennia, it is not only the most practiced circus discipline among amateurs but also the most represented artistic field in terms of creation in the contemporary circus sector. The triangular relationship between artist, object and spectator allows creators to easily integrate other languages into their work: dance, object theater, puppetry, clowning, texts or even encounters with practices and knowledges that are not directly related to the art field. Juggling today represents an artistic field which, while preserving at its heart a particular and expert approach to objects and materials, favors the emergence of a multiplicity of research at the frontiers of disciplines and vocabularies which constantly enrich the spectrum of its influence.
For more than 10 years, the Maison des Jonglages has been developing its activities around 4 main missions: programming to show a panorama of contemporary juggling creation, support for creation through residency and co-production, implementation of artistic action projects and professional training.
Since 2020, the project has a new dimension, a new ambition for the artistic field of juggling. This axis called “Research and Development” aims to boost creativity, to renew aesthetics and to increase the influence of Juggling beyond the circus sector or even the performing arts by stimulating exchanges with the sciences, sports or the visual arts and more generally to support research at the borders of disciplines and vocabularies. The Maison des Jonglages intends to accompany a community of creators who are already ready to meet with practices and knowledges from very different horizons. Rather than transdisciplinarity, we will speak of extradisciplinarity, like the traveler who, after visiting exotic worlds, returns home transformed and then revisits and enriches his own culture.
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