La rue Luberlu, circus company
Presentation
La rue Luberlu is a circus company from the Côte d'Azur based in Nice. For over twenty years, according to its creations, it has offered shows (street, young audiences, family, general public, ambulatory) and visual acts (artists' platforms, cabarets, events). It also sometimes works on a commission for an event. In parallel with its creation and production activities, the company is involved in the transmission of circus arts (cultural mediation, discovery days, introductory or advanced training courses, etc.) for a variety of audiences (schools, adapted, circus schools, leisure centers, parents/children, etc.).
Since its creation, around forty artists (circus performers, magicians, actors, stilt walkers, musicians, dancers, directors, photographers, scenographers, etc.) and show technicians have worked on one of our creations or one of our events in PACA, in France or abroad.
Brief history
The company was created in 2000 in Nice, by three artists (Manu, Prune and Sarah) at the end of their training at the Annie Fratellini circus school (Paris). Rue Luberlu quickly found a permanent home in one of the buildings of the former barracks of Saint Jean d'Angely 1 in Nice alongside the Collectif "de La Brèche" and the Collectif "des Diables Bleus". There she will create her first street shows, shows for young audiences, and ambulatory shows.
In 2004 the city of Nice requested the expulsion of the artists to allow the extension of the university. Three companies then created the association L'Entre-Pont 2 and signs an agreement with the City of Nice to occupy the Halle Spada. La rue Luberlu is not part of L'Entre-Pont but it will later benefit from an agreement with L'Entre-Pont, which will allow it to rehearse in a room alongside the contemporary theater companyLe grain de sable 3 with which a multitude of collaborations will take shape.
We will leave the adventure of the Halle Spada and L'Entre-Pont, shortly before their moves to the former slaughterhouses of Nice, renamed the “Chantier sang-neuf”. The regular artists and technicians of the company being dispersed on the territories we regularly change rehearsal locations for more or less long work sessions in diverse and varied places sometimes quite far from the cultural sector.
Liste of main creations
Mémoire d’un Carton
- Created in 2000 at La Bréche in Nice
- Type: Circus / theater/ young audiences
- Aide à la mise en scène: Ivan Challet
- Artistes: Cécile Godineau, Emanuel Borri et Sarah Michel
La princesse qui avait tourné le page
- Created in 2000 at La Bréche in Nice
- Type: Circus / Theater/ rYyoung audiences
- Artistes: Aude Colmant, Sarah Michel
Un oui pour un non
- Created in 2001 at La Bréche in Nice
- Type: Circus / Theater/ Young audiences
- Artistes: Sarah Michel, Vanessa Clément
Pistache et Grenadine
- Created in 2001 at La Bréche in Nice
- Type: Traveling show / Street
- Artistes: Sarah Michel, Thomas Garcia, Vanessa Clément, Well Houssin
Miss excentrique
- Created in 2002 at La Bréche in Nice
- Type: Traveling / stilts / Street
- Artiste: Sarah Michel
Lire de rire
- Created in 2003 at La Bréche in Nice
- Type: Circus / Tale / Young audience
- Artistes: Fanny Tissot-Giordanna, Sarah Michel
Gadjo-Gadji
- Created in 2004 at La Halle Spada and at Piste d'Azur
- Type: Circus / Visual acts
- Artistes: Laurent Barattero, Sarah Michel
Bulle et Moltonel
- Created in 2005 at La Halle Spada
- Type: Circus / family show
- Mise en scène: Jacques Laurent
- Artistes: Laurent Barattero, Sarah Michel
- Création lumières : Nicolas Thibault
Les Quartolés
- Created in 2006 at La Halle Spada
- Type: Circus / Concert / All audiences
- Artistes: Benoit Pierron, Laurent Barattero, Patrice Colet, Sarah Michel
Le Cabaret enfantin
- Created in 2007 at La Halle Spada
- Type: Circus / Young audiences
- Dirctor: Jacques Laurent
- Artistes: Laurent Barattero, Sarah Michel
Les Tocards
- Created in 2008 at La Halle Spada and at La Batoude.
- Type: Clown / Full show and visual acts / All audiences
- Director: Alain Mies
- Artistes: Laurent Barattero, Sarah Michel
Tempo
- Created in 2011 at La Halle Spada
- Type: Circus / All Audiences
- Director: Jaccques Laurent
- Artistes: Laurent Barattero, Sarah Michel
- Builders: Stephan Pedretti, Philippe Maurin
Cabaret Saltimbanques
- Created in 2012
- Type: Magie / Cirque / Danse / Humour / Spectacle Tout public
- Director: Eric Balez
- Artistes: Ambre Balez, Amandine Eyermann, Cyril Chahouar, Florian Cohen, Hilaire Chambo, Jean-Marc Dinet, Laurent Barattero, Louis Monico, Pamela Dinet, Sarah Michel
Tandem
- Created en 2014
- Type: Circus / Street
- Artistes: Laurent Barattero, Sarah Michel
Piccolo circus
- Created in 2017
- Type: Circus / Young audiences
- Artistes: Laurent Barattero, Sarah Michel
Les Lutins
- Created in 2019
- Type: Circus / Full show and traveling / Young audiences
- Artistes: Laurent Barattero, Sarah Michel
Passage rétro
- Created in 2020 at Piste d'Azur and at Touet-sur-Var
- Type: Clubs passing / All audiences
- Artistes: Ismael Bouya, Laurent Barattero, Ludivine Cassal, Sarah Michel
Cirko 234 / Cirko mobile
- Created in 2021 (Cirko 234)
- Created in 2022 (Cirko Mobile - version rue)
- Created in 2023 (Cirko Mobile - version scène)
- Type: Circus / all audiences ( Street , Scene or Traveling)
- Artistes: Laurent Barattero, Sarah Michel
Shows in collaboration with other companies
- 2015 / 2016 – Falabrak cabaret – Production patte noire – Troupe of "Mado la Niçoise"
- 2010 – Sur les traces des bâtisseurs (Circus, Theater, Video, Book) participation in collaboration between La rue Luberlu and le Grain de sable - Production L’Entre-Pont
- Depuis 2012 – Cabaret Bucolique avec Felicien compagnie Magique - Director: Alain Mies
- 2011 / 2012 – Revue Séduction du Casino Ruhl - Director: Nancy et Michel Rios
- 2012 / 2013 – Croisière de rêve du Casino Ruhl - Director: Nancy et Michel Rios
- The barracks of Saint Jean d'Angely - Nice <https://www.artfactories.net/Les-Casernes-de-Saint-Jean-d-Angely-Nice.html> ↩︎
- A short history of the collective Entre-Pont <https://entrepont.net/qui-sommes-nous/#1999> ↩︎
- Le grain de sable, contemporary theater company, member of Entre-Pont <http://www.legraindesable.org> ↩︎