TIGHT ROPE
AN ART OF BALANCE 
3 appointments 2025/2026 
with Jérôme d’Orso

The Exoskeleton is a reception space for the transmission of living arts,
and it was designed with a thread, for the wire-workers. 
We want it to be a resource and research site for those who are passionate about this art of balance,
of the ephemeral and gestural poetry.
We create contexts for transmitting, researching, archiving, practicing, tinkering,
to foster discussion on all aspects of this art.
A common thread: chaos, which we encounter every moment, and which determines the dance of balance.

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This year, three thread stages are on the agenda.
Two weekends, open to everyone, for experienced wire artists or beginners,
and an intensive week-long course for more experienced wire artists.​

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Two open weekends open to everyone: 
November 7-9, 2025
and/or
March 13-15, 2026
with Jerome d’Orso

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As we dance on the wire, we write, precisely, a kind of poetry that transcends us. It is not easy to say why, in the magic of the moment, the practitioner and the observer can feel themselves seized, touched, in complicity. 
In my opinion, the alchemy is not so much in technical prowess or aesthetics, but in the gratuitousness and fragility of the "bravado". The audacity of being in the middle of a path so thin, so restrictive. Between heaven and earth, between one edge and the other, the adventure of taking a step, of succeeding, such a small thing, and the feeling of freedom is immense.
The body seeks to preserve the center, that point of balance where one believes one can rest. But the imbalance remains, and the quest continues. It's a friendly struggle, a game, a dialogue with gravity, the fundamental force that connects everything in our universe. 
I propose to be the intermediary for your relationship with gravity. The thread, first, will be our guide. It and our foot. I will propose contexts to explore the language of this dialogue with the thread, the words of the body, the syntax of momentum, the rhythmic phrasing, so that each person has the opportunity to discover or develop their dance in the air, their art of balance.
 

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Intensive Workshop : 

5-9 Janauary 2026
Embody chaos

with Jérôme d'Orso and Sanja Kosonen

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On the wire, perfect balance, stability, is a sweet dream, at best the fleeting fragment of a moment that quickly passes. It is a situation of chaos. 
The precariousness inherent in the practice could be experienced as an obstacle that thwarts the artist's technical or aesthetic projects, a kind of necessary evil. 
However, this is the essential game, the specificity of the practitioner, where the "work" on the thread is distinguished. 
The wire-walker's reactive gesture influences the trajectory of the fall, and works with the fundamental laws of our universe: forces that move the center of gravity and redirect trajectories toward new states of balance. Balance and imbalance are intertwined in dance, in the maelstrom of stability of our internal compensations. 
The imbalance becomes the emancipatory gift of chaos, the soil for the creation of our art.

​We want to fully invest these moments of "deviation" and give our catch-up and recovery strategies the full potential of our artistic uniqueness.