Show: Yongoyély

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Two years after Yé (L’Eau) and its impressive human pyramids, the Guinean company Circus Baobab returns to Millau with Yongoyély, a term that means “the exciser.” Six aerial artists, two carriers and a trapeze artist set in motion the independence of Guinean women, social pressure, the weight of traditions and fatality, the refusal of the unacceptable, the unbearable razor blade that forever changes the lives and bodies of women and girls, risking their lives again. They perform on rudimentary apparatus: slender tree trunks served as…