Biography

I sculpt myself, I feel myself, I caress myself. Fragile body, conscious of its mass, its weight on what surrounds it. The pleasure is driving: it launches my body into experimentation.

Basile divides his time between Besançon, Europe and Quebec. He trained as an acrobat at the École Nationale de Cirque de Montréal/Tiohtià:ke, where he learned to create circus spaces in three dimensions. He developed his personal practice in a duet: next to a large mat in the shape of a donut (Within 2019). In this work he combines the circus body, sound movements and visual arts. He then opened up to performance art alongside Peter James (REDAMNSION 2022) and Nien Tzu Weng (Through us _comme espaces_ passions, 2021).

He continues to experiment with prosthetics and an intimate relationship with the object, while moving towards compositional work. He was shortlisted for circusnext 2023 with Broths/ et autres paysages, co-written with Maxime Steffan.

He is currently working on his new creation EMPTINESS is merveilleux. In this solo, to be performed in 2026, he explores the void, accompanied by a warm solitude and a new set of prosthetic objects.

Among his other projects, he has collaborated with the collectives Valby Ruta (QC) and The Circus Dialogues (BE). He is a performer in La Danse d’Amazon, created in Berlin in 2023 by the German company Rimini Protokoll.  He is also the outside eye for the acrobat Lili Parson. 

He believes it’s important to remain curious, to constantly question the political place of his work and to continue to meet other collaborators with whom to shape other creative spaces.

« The post-Vitruvian space settles: blue monochrome.

All that is love, violent and exqui, sadistic freedom.

The sound, the ego, the statement succumb peacefully to leave place to the ball. The presence

listens to itself, the air is filled with silence. The bodies of the witnesses tend towards the front, it oscillates

among them: Silence. »

B.

Photo credits: B.

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