Haven’t you ever dreamt
When you were a kid
To board a soap bubble
And ushered by some gentle magic and fairy dance dust
Hence travel
Free from all weight and burden and the mechanical strains of this World
Flipped upside down the right way up and rolling
To live delicate like air
Against all odds
Light as a caress
And maybe more?

‘Something wants to collapse’ is a dialogue with gravity. A wedding ring, put right in between the Earth and the Sky; between inside and outside, concentration and expansion, introspection and the others.

On stage, ‘Something want to collapse’ is a 40 minutes dancing piece for all audiences, where a Cyr wheel apparatus becomes the vehicle of a great journey. An invitation to get both feet off the floor and be bold enough to try a little softness.

In its original version, this performance includes a poem, spoken Live on stage. Removing this text, this work is a 20 minutes body-intensive short piece which dramaturgy still works. That is what I do when I perform in schools, for younger audiences for example.
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A Boom Bap & Cie creation,

Associated with les Vertébrées productions

Length: 40 minutes
Artistic Direction, text and choreography: Yann Szuter
Photography: Anne-Laure Etienne
Video: Silvia Grachová
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Born in the middle of the pandemic and consecutive periods of restrictions and quarantines, this project first started as a joke. ‘All right so, is dancing with an iron bar something we still can do? Ok then. Next Boom Bap & Compagnie production will thus be a duet, of a dancer and an iron bar.’

This performance hence aims to stand as an ode to self-directed learning: a pillar of our collective vision and work ethics. Throughout the creation process of this piece, I first had to get acquainted with the Cyr wheel apparatus that I had never tried before and its technique, before eventually trying and reinventing its traditional use.

A year and a half later – 18 months of discovering and exploring new sensations and momentums and balance and tipping points and dizziness and fun stuff, preceding a research for original choreographic material -, the piece ‘Something wants to collapse’ came to Life; together with a poem that leads the spectator all along.

Here then, the Cyr wheel becomes a tool for a flight reverie – both physical and metphorical – as its classic use is hijacked and fuses with a 25 years of dancing experience.

In order to exist, this proposition only requires a 5 X 5 M flat surface. The audience would usually be sitting all around in a 360 degrees configuration.

It is completely autonomous and can be performed either during the day or at night time – although the smooth and delicate soundtrack makes it a nice morning or evening thing – and both inside or outside. Having an attachment point near the performing area – that can be a tree, a lamp post or anything of this sort – would be great too, as the wheel is supposedly suspended when the performance starts. But this is not even essential. The complete set-up, reconstruction and warm-up required time does not exceed 1 hour.