Duo SenCirk by Cirque SenCirk & Poetic Consultations

Performed by two acrobats, Modou Fata Touré and Ibrahima Camara, in Duo SenCirk, a man awakens and encounters an alien being. When they find their anchorage, a world arises where nature and man merge, take root in each other, and harmony is created. Modou Fata Touré questions Europe and Africa: What if contemporary circus was not only European, and what if African circus was not exclusively traditional? Through this performance, Modou and Ibrahima reclaim the circus's African identity. The local materials of Senegal—bags of rice, traditional brooms, wooden ladders—join raw materials like earth, sand, aluminum, and straw. SenCirk's unique approach shares personal stories that West Africans—and others—can relate to, from clandestine migration to Europe to the experience of living as a talibé runaway.

Poetic Consultations is an unexpected meeting, face to face, in the flesh, between an actor, a musician, or a dancer and a person around poetry. Like the Telephone Consultation, the Face-to-Face Consultation begins with an exchange to get to know each other, but this time the scene is set. A table and two chairs create intimacy. Equipped with a collection of over 100 poems, invented on the model of a medical dictionary, the actor chooses a poem from what has been said, the dancer a choreography, the musician a melody. With nine NYC and Paris-based immigrant artists. Presented in English, Spanish, French, Urdu, Farsi, and Chinese.

There will be a special workshop for kids at 5pm by Cirque SenCirck between shows.