SCUSE
Teaser 2025
Movement research
Documentary Circus Show
65 min / FR or EN
Oscillating between informal discussion and acrobatic performance, SCUSE is a documentary circus show where the artist Frédérique Cournoyer Lessard revisits various fragments of their childhood and adolescence that shaped their perception of femininity and sexuality. In somatic symbiosis with their aerial hoop, they explore how the binary education of youth fosters the power dynamics of the adult world.
A comment shouted by a supervisor between two whistles in the schoolyard, an explanation from their mother about their gender neutral name, the lyrics of a Spice Girls song, a whispered response in their ear by their coach in a doorway at the end of a party when they were 16...six autobiographical scenes that may have seemed harmless at the time, but when stitched together, they reveal the insidious side of our social constructs.
