RISING APE

ESPACE JOB, 105 Route de Blagnac

Rising Ape is a satirical show about our obsession with productivity. Being productive would be a virtue: efficient, profitable, useful to society. But behind this promise lies another reality — constant pressure, the violence of work on bodies and minds. By contrast, Rising Ape draws inspiration from speedrunning, a practice from video games where you finish a game as quickly as possible, optimizing every gesture, bending the rules, exploiting glitches. A ridiculous race to performance, pushed to the extreme — but collective and joyful. On stage, the Cirque r…