2026TIFA 巴羅．德維爾劇團《泥是誰？》

國家兩廳院 NTCH

In between the collapse and reformation of clay, the body becomes absurd; Before everything falls apart, let figures slip between the cracks to search for the self.

© Christophe Raynaud de Lage

A man struggles on stage, desperately molding clay into misshapen forms—just as they begin to take shape, they collapse in his hands. Clay can create, destroy, heal, and begin again. As a material brimming with possibilities, it becomes a vessel for dreams, summoning deep human desires and imagination. Qui Som? by Baro d’evel begins with clay and unfolds into a profound inquiry into the human condition.

©Jerome Quadri

Premiering to critical acclaim at the 2024 Avignon Festival, this richly layered ensemble performance blends dance, acrobatics, visual art, music, and monologue into an absurd and joyful spectacle. Defying conventional genres, Qui Som? invites audiences to reconsider the question: Who are we? And in a wounded world, what still connects us?

Camille Decourtye

Creator of Baro d’evel, Camille Decourtye is the author and performer of all the company’s shows.From her childhood with horses, made of traveling in trailers and on horseback, she keeps the need toinvent a way of life and research that will meet her need for movement and encounters. This led her to train in the national circus schools and to develop a work of experimentation on movement and voice. She continues to refine her bond and collaboration with the animals with which she lives based on the principles of ethology. Her need to tell the invisible, to bring to light what connects us in this damaged world, gives her the energy to question in each project how the conflicts and complex arrangements we make with the world are hidden in each of the artists and spectators. Her obsession with breaking down barriers between languages, roles and modes of experimentation makes Baro d’evel’s writing a quest for metaphysics in motion.

Blaï Mateu Trias

Creator of Baro d’evel, Blaï Mateu Trias is the author and performer of all the company’s shows. Born in Barcelona, he grew up in the post-Franco Catalan artistic currents, with two clown parents. With Circ Cric, tours with Tortell Poltrona and expeditions with Clowns without border, he developed a taste for the crossroads of languages. He left at the age of 16 to train in the circus arts in France and then settled there. His encounter with a new culture opened his perception of the possible but also confirmed his attachment to his original influences: Catalonia, its architecture and painters, a political relationship with the clown and his benevolent view of the world, the generosity and audacity of the street arts. His sense of rhythm and space is the basis of his research work and his obsession with the musicality of movement generates singular choreographic writings. His visceral need to experiment with materials makes him design innovative performance spaces and has allowed him to question the forms of contemporary writing with Baro d’evel for 20 years.