Tony Clifton Circus

MISSION ROOSEVELT

Let's start with the idea that you are not an audience, and therefore this is not a show. This is an experience, or better yet, an experiment. You will be the actors, the guinea pigs, and above all, the sole and fortunate beneficiaries.

In MISSION ROOSEVELT, we want to traverse urban space, create a path, and leave a mark, a colorful trace on the ground. We want to share with you the pleasure of the forbidden, the pleasure of using a taboo object, an object used for the first time, which could, in itself, justify everything.

The wheelchair is the instrument and the tool of MISSION ROOSEVELT, the symbol of everything that doesn't concern us, but which today belongs to us. It is a metaphor for inequality through which to conquer the city.

An urban experiment, a performance calling for public participation, which, seated in wheelchairs, transforms into a kind of firing squad, a joyful war machine. 

The Roosevelt Mission invades the city.

A Tony Clifton Circus project

With Diane Bonnot and Iacopo Fulgi.
Technical direction: Valerio Maggi. Production & coordination: Alexis Nys.
 
Production: Tony Clifton Circus 2012.
In co-production with Lieux Publics – CNAREP in Marseille,
with the support of SACD / Auteurs d’espace public, La Paperie – CNAREP in Angers, L’Atelline – Lieu de Fabrique Arts de la Rue in Montpellier, and Productions Bis.
 

They hosted the Roosevelt Mission:

Axis Festival, Assen (Pays-Bas) / Beirut Street Festival, Beyrouth, Liban / Contemporanea Festival, Prato, Italie / Coopérative de Rue et de Cirque & Ville de Paris, France /Festival Approdi, Cagliari, Italie / Festival Cratères Surface, Alès, France / Festival D-CAF, le Caire, Egypte / Festival MiramirO, Gent, Belgique / Festival Passage, Helsingor, Danemark / Festival Viva Cité, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France / les Expressifs, Poitiers, France / Le Mans fait son Cirque, le Mans, France / Rencontres Ville&Handicap, avec le soutien d’ARTO, Toulouse, France / Seoul Street Art Festival, Seoul (South Korea) / Short Theatre, Roma, Italie / Teatri Oda, Pristina, Kosovo / Terni Festival, Terni, Italie / Teatro delle Briciole, Parma / Ville de Pantin & SACD – Auteurs d’Espaces, Pantin, France / ...

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Map of Roosevelt Missions since the creation of this secret agency in 2012. Click on the location of each mission to access a photo gallery in the description.