Piste, piste, piste

One day a kid planted three little dots. And they grew into lines…

Piste, piste, piste is an interdisciplinary performance for children and young audiences, combining contemporary circus, dance and visual arts. In a fascinating journey into the world of shapes and creativity, a blank white stage gets transformed into an imaginative universe with the use of old overhead projectors.

The work is based on the children’s book “Três pontinhos” (Three little dots) by the author/illustrator Mario Vale.

The performers explore the use of handmade visuals executed live on old overhead projectors, to build a dynamic and poetic visual environment. Not underlining but rather suggesting, the performance sensitively builds up around the journey of two characters who discover three little dots…

Through movement, illusion and circus skills, Mira and Luis play with the transformation of dots into lines, using the overhead projectors to create different situations and universes in which they travel through, leaving space for the children’s own imagination and interpretations.

Company Portmanteau is a Finnish-Brazilian contemporary circus company founded in 2017. The group creates multidisciplinary and visual stage works, exploring the dialogue between circus and other art forms such as dance, live music and video art.