{"id":1080,"date":"2014-04-03T14:49:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T07:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/blog\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2019-01-29T18:32:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T11:32:18","slug":"behind-the-scenes-of-phares-new-upcoming-production-proniap-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/behind-the-scenes-of-phares-new-upcoming-production-proniap-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes of Phare\u2019s new upcoming production, Proniap! (Panic!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"panic(1)\"<\/a>I stopped in today to talk with the Artistic Director Gauthier Jansen to ask some questions and capture a few photographs of the performers rehearsal. The show will be released on April 8th\u2026.<\/p>\n

Brief Synopsis: Imagine the journey of 7 young artists who have trained their whole lives for the opportunity to join an international circus-theatre company\u2026 and then magically, each of them receives an invitation for an emergency casting with a world-famous troupe!\u00a0 Watch these hopeful stars as they focus their skills for the most defining moments of their careers, fall apart from the fear and stress, become lost in the madness, but most importantly\u2026 find themselves through all the panic \u2013 and perform poetry in motion while they laugh and improvise all the way towards their destinies.<\/p>\n

\"panic(2)\"<\/a>What are the key ingredients in creating a new circus production?
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Character development: this is people telling a story, not a story telling about people.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Necessity. Meaning, there is a very limited time to pull the performance together and we must ask: What points are most essential? We do we care about? What do we have to do?\u00a0 \u201cThe zest of the lemon is what we want here,\u201d he says.
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Most important key: combining circus and theatre; many artists can around the world can do Diablo tricks (Chinese yo-yo) but every performance is different\u2026 But what does it mean to your performance? Every trick is expendable, but how to integrate it and make it essential is the key. Otherwise, we are doing plain theater without the circus. But this is Phare\u2026 \u201cWhy just simply drink a glass of water when you could throw it 4 meters in the air, catch it on a thin string, and then drink it?\u201d<\/p>\n

What is unique about this particular troupe of artists?
\nThis story has been a fast production, so the theme has had to be close to the artists lives experience\u2026 an audition to work with a famous circus company is not far from the potential emergency\/panic of these artists<\/p>\n

\"panic(3)\"<\/a>What has been your greatest success with this group thus far?
\nTime crunch! They have to create their own tools to bring their characters to life. There is no time for teaching new skills\u2026 having given them the character description, these performers have been practicing alone, in groups and bringing their own personal discipline to the production. They have been up early, no questions asked, as they understand the tight timeline in the creative process.\u00a0 Oddly, the best enemy has been time \u2013 allowing for the performers hard earned instincts to lead them.<\/p>\n

It has also helped that Gauthier has worked with many of these artists before and each of them was chosen for this production because they are each strongly autonomous artists \u2013 each with their own strong imagination and style \u2013making them ideal for a performance showcasing a mock-audition.<\/p>\n

\"panic(4)\"<\/a>What was your inspiration for Proniap!?
\n-Riding in a taxi for the few hours between our Battambang circus school and the Siem Reap circus site, Gauthier and our director contemplated the need for a new show to fill in gaps in our upcoming performance schedule\u2026 A bit of an emergency in a way, and this mixed with the idea that the artists need to prepare for real potential auditions, made the idea a perfect fit. And indeed, the show is actually preparing our artists for a real audition if any of them does receive that fateful phone call from an international recruiter.<\/p>\n

\"panic(5)\"<\/a>What would you like to tell fans before they arrive to see the performance?
\n-Let yourself be surprised by what you see, and happiness will follow\u2026 this is how our performers live\u2026 This is their everyday reality as they perform, no 2 show alike, discovering their next move as it happens and happily accepting the result as it is the product of all their hard work.<\/p>\n

Thank you Gauthier! I can\u2019t wait to see how this panic ridden emergency turns out. All you readers should join us for opening night, or any thereafter, for Proniap! \u2013 showing from April 8th \u2013 18th, and then returning again at the end of the month.\u00a0 Come see why we are at the top of the Cambodian evening entertainment list. See you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I stopped in today to talk with the Artistic Director Gauthier Jansen to ask some questions and capture a few photographs of the performers rehearsal. The show will be released on April 8th\u2026. Brief Synopsis: Imagine the journey of 7 young artists who have trained their whole lives for the opportunity to join an international […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-circus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pharecircus.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}