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CONTENTS

La Voix du Nord Caudry (FR) -25/05/16

La Voix du Nord Cambrai (FR) -19/05/16

L’Hebdo (FR) - 14/04/16

Newbury Today (UK) - 9/10/15

Broadway Baby (UK) - 21/08/14

Playtosee (UK) -18/08/14

Edimburgh Guide (UK) - 16/08/14

Fest (UK) -15/08/14

Mumble Comedy (UK) -14/08/14

Edinburg Fringe (UK) -11/08/14

Total Theatre (UK) - 11/08/14

The Herald (UK) - 6/08/14

OUEST France (FR) - 9/08/13

La Marseillaise (FR) - 30/07/13

La République des Pyrénées (FR) - 27/07/13

La Provence (FR) - 24/07/13

BClerideaurouge (FR) - 16/07/13

Sud OUEST (FR) - 7/04/13

Les Dernières Nouvelles D’Alsace (FR) - 9/03/13

Midi Libre (FR) -19/12/11

OUEST France (FR) - 23/11/12

The Independant (UK) -16/01/12

Le Télegramme (FR) - 24/01/12

Les Nouvelles de Tahiti (FR) - 9/11/11

La Sicilia (IT) - 15/05/11

Prélude acidulé

La genèse de ce spectacle s’articula autour du fruit défendu… Une pomme de discorde qui donna lieu à un numéro d’agilité ô combien séduisant. La folle expressivité de Camilla Pessi et Simone Fassari a très vite fait chavirer le public, sous le charme.

Mine de rien

Après avoir débuté tout doucettement avec des semblants d’acrobatie, les choses sérieuses se sont enchaînées. Les deux artistes ont fait preuve d’une audace et d’une souplesse particulièrement remarquables pour proposer des numéros hauts en couleur. Camilla en profita pour imposer son formidable personnage de Fifi Brindacier moderne et voler la vedette à son partenaire…

Cour de récré

C’est comme deux gamins qu’ils se sont aussi affrontés – jeux de mains, jeux de vilains – avant de très vite se réconcilier pour s’inventer de nouveaux horizons. Ces trésors d’inventivité les ont conduits à plusieurs reprises dans les travées du théâtre où ils ont semé une belle zizanie. Sur l’échelle des valeurs, nul doute qu’ils furent au sommet…

Quand le duo devient trio

Pour pimenter encore un peu plus leur spectacle, les deux clowns sont allés chercher un spectateur dans le public. Ce dernier, à la corpulence rêvée pour être porteur acrobatique, s’est montré tellement à l’aise sur la scène du théâtre que, pour un peu, on aurait pu croire qu’il faisait partie de la compagnie…

Intervalles

Le clown sait faire rêver car il sait se faufiler dans des intervalles où l’on ne penserait pas se glisser. Démonstration en fut faite ce vendredi lorsque le duo d’artistes a détourné une échelle à deux plans pour faire naître les plus beaux rêves. Une véritable invitation au voyage que cette échelle musicale pour atteindre les sommets…

Spectacle ascensionnel

Si tout avait commencé de façon très terre à terre, la clôture de ce spectacle s’est faite dans les airs ! Sur leur trapèze, les deux clowns se sont livrés à un numéro plein de prouesses. Avec, en fil rouge, toujours beaucoup d’humour et de tendresse. Un spectacle tout en douceur et en finesse qui fut salué par une tout aussi belle ovation du public vraiment conquis.

Jean-Pierre Lefebvre

Caudry: au théâtre, «Pss Pss» a ouvert une parenthèse enchantée

Si aller au spectacle est d’abord et surtout une détente, une très bonne façon d’échapper au train-train quotidien, « Pss Pss », l’avant-dernier spectacle de la saison des Scènes Mitoyennes, a parfaitement comblé le public caudrésien, vendredi. Le duo de clowns a réussi à plonger les spectateurs dans un univers aussi original que poétique…

La Voix du Nord

Caudry25/05/16

(FR)

Arts du cirque au théâtre de Caudry

De la «micro-acrobatie» en toute humilité…

Poétique, surréel, ironique, acrobatique et drôle, Pss Pss est un spectacle qui met en scène deux clowns contemporains, Camilla Pessi et Simone Fassari, qui jouent la danse du désir et de l’être à deux, avec le langage universel du corps et du regard. Rencontre avec Camilla Pessi.

Quand avez-vous découvert le cirque ?«Toute petite, j’allais déjà souvent au cirque. Mais ce n’est qu’à l’âge de 17 ans que j’ai commencé l’acrobatie. En fait, Simone et moi avons plutôt une formation théâtrale et notre idée était de combiner le théâtre et le cirque. Pour cela, nous nous sommes beaucoup inspirés des clowns à l’ancienne, surtout ceux des films muets, comme Charlie Chaplin et Buster Keaton. Ils sont toujours très proches de notre sensibilité».

Comment est née l’idée de ce spectacle ?«On voulait associer le travail de clown et les acrobaties. Nous avions un spectacle composé de 4 numéros avec lequel nous avons beaucoup tourné et nous y avons ajouté d’autres accessoires et inventé d’autres idées pour arriver à un spectacle d’une heure. Notre metteur en scène, Louis Spagna, nous a beaucoup aidés car il est très juste pour ce genre de spectacle».

Pourquoi pratiquez-vous ce que l’on peut appeler la «micro-acrobatie» ?«Comme nous ne sommes pas des acrobates à la base, nous faisons de l’acrobatie de manière théâtrale. Sans doute est-ce parce que nous voulons rester humbles que nous faisons de la micro-acrobatie»…

Vous considérez-vous comme les héritiers de Charlie Chaplin ou du mime Marceau ?«Oh non ! Nous ne sommes les héritiers de personne… Ils nous ont inspirés, c’est vrai, car ils ont conçu des chefs-d’œuvre mais cela s’arrête là. Au-delà du spectacle, nous donnons beaucoup d’importance aussi à nos collaborateurs et aux techniciens dans les différentes salles. Avoir de bons rapports avec les gens est indispensable pour nous».

Est-ce qu’être clowns est une façon pour vous de garder intacte votre âme d’enfant ?«Je pense surtout que nous avons une certaine liberté pour arranger les choses autrement qu’avec les codes que nous impose la société. Nous disposons d’autres outils pour provoquer de l’émotion. En fait, le clown cherche d’autres solutions»…

Au théâtre de Caudry ce vendredi 20 mai à 20 h 30. Entrée : 14 € - Tarif réduit : 8 € - Scolaires : 7 €. Réservations au 03 27 70 09 60 ou sur www.scenes-mitoyennes.fr

Jean-Pierre Lefebvre

La Voix du Nord

Cambrai19/05/16

(FR)

L’Hebdo14/04/16

(FR)La Compagnia Baccalà gagne le

Prix suisse de la scène 2016

La Compagnia Baccalà, composée de la Tessinoise Camilla Pessi et du Sicilien Simone Fassari, a remporté le Prix suisse de la scène 2016. La distinction a été remise jeudi soir à Thoune (BE) lors de l’ouverture de la Bourse suisse aux spectacles.

La manifestation s’est déroulée en présence du conseiller fédéral Alain Berset, a indiqué l’Office fédéral de la culture dans un communiqué. Le duo de clowns formant la Compagnia Baccalà s’est rencontré à la Scuola Teatro Dimitri. Il se produit depuis 2004 dans divers cirques et spectacles de variété.

Leur premier spectacle, «Pss Pss», qu’ils ont présenté à plus de 400 reprises dans une cinquantaine de pays, a remporté un franc succès. Sur scène, Camilla Pessi et Simone Fassari donnent vie à deux personnages dont les costumes et le rythme des mouvements évoquent le burlesque du cinéma muet.

Le Prix suisse de la scène a été décerné pour la première fois en 1993 par l’Association artistes – théâtres – promotion, Suisse. Depuis l’année dernière, il est intégré aux Prix suisses de théâtre qui seront remis le 26 mai à Genève.

Les nominés pour 2016 étaient, outre Baccalà, le trio multi-instrumentiste Heinz de Specht et le chansonnier, poète et compositeur Manuel Stahlberger.

L’objectif ainsi visé est d’honorer par un prix de la Confédération d’autres formes d’art de la scène, telles que les revues de cabaret, les chansons, les spectacles comiques et numéros de clown, les arts du cirque ou encore la combinaison de plusieurs disciplines. Les lauréats reçoivent chacun 30’000 francs et les groupes 50’000 francs.

Newbury Today

9/10/15 (UK)

Broadway Baby

21/08/14 (UK)

Pss Pss by Thea Hawlin ‘Pss’ is one of those sounds that extends beyond itself. It’s so brief at times it hardly seems a sound at all, a motion, not a noise but an extension of the lips,

an exciting new extrapolation of the body. Compagnia Baccalà prove in this bizarre but mesmerising performance that sometimes all you need is a noise as brief as a ‘Pss’ to get someone’s attention, then you can show them what you really want to say.They hold the audience’s rapt attention throughout; every action becomes a vibrant expression.As past winners of the Cirque du Soleil, you’d expect something fairly spectacular to explode onto the stage, so you might be quite surprised when greeted by the eager eyes of a mere two clowns, taking tentative steps into the spotlight. But Pss Pss sticks to the quiet subtlety of its title, these two performers require little in order to entertain, their limbs, their faces, their expressions are where their skill and art truly lie. Their bodies are finely tuned instruments, played openly for your pleasure.They’re bewitching from the moment they walk on stage, even the simplest of actions become enthralling. From Camilla Pessi’s initial happy gazing at an apple, to Simone Fassari’s inquisitive scanning of the crowd for volunteers, it all comes down to the right look, the right time, a minute flinch or twitch of a cheek, an eyebrow, a little finger and the audience are in hysterics.Fassari and Pessi are two of the most confident and captivating performers you are likely to encounter, the parts they play appear as mere extensions of self, hardly characters at all; their eyebrows alone excite. They feel like they’ve compressed an entire tradition of clowning into a single performance, Fassari practically Chaplin-esque, while Pessi seems like a creation from a Tim Burton film.

They’re hyperbolic, yes, clowning to a degree cannot help but engage enthusiastically with the exaggerated, and yet this exaggeration of movements comes to the fore with incredible precision and immense intricacy. These clowns are strong apart, but they are stronger together, the relationship built up between the two characters climaxes in several sequences of comical hugs, the affectionate bonds a place of connection and trust through which they are able to play off each other’s bodies with vibrant intensity. Small scuffles are transferred to the perilous heights of a trapeze, a ladder cunningly manipulated under their touch to become something other than anyone could have originally intended. They hold the audience’s rapt attention throughout; every action becomes a vibrant expression.In the end it’s the incredible versatility of both performers that holds this show together. Motifs of movement pepper the piece and become hysterical points of return as the jokes build on each other in an artfully layered performance. Inventive and exciting, this couple of clowns will have you laughing long after you leave the theatre.

By Thea Hawlin theodorahawlinTheodora Hawlin is a writer, a reader and a bad pun appreciator.

OtherEDINBURGH FRINGE 2014By Compagnia BaccalàDirector: Louis SpagnaCast: Simone Fassari and Camilla PessiZoo Southside, EdinburghUntil 25th August 2014Time: 18.50 (1 hr 5 mins)Review by Kate Mounce18th August 2014

If you have never seen a clown show, or the very words strike terror into your heart, I dare you to go and resist the charms of Pss Pss. The Compagnia Baccalà duo is masters of their craft and sure to convert you from Coulrophobia to Clownophilia.Pessi and Fassari seem diminutive on entering into the voluminous emptiness of Zoo Southside’s main stage. This, coupled with their understated costumes, greyish make-up and deceptively gentle beginning, gives an air of the absurd and I feel we may be treated to an exchange à la Beckett. By the end of the show, these pint-sized performers have filled the entire space, including the auditorium, with their antics and terrifyingly brilliant acrobatics.Pessi in particular has an irresistible charm with her insect-like physique and enormous eyes, which so succinctly express her fluctuating emotional state. There is also some fabulously awkward dancing, vaguely reminiscent of The Office, which once discovered, like all of the gestures they find to encourage themselves, reappears at hysterically well-timed intervals.Part of the joy of watching them is their uninhibited childlike desire for contact and for play, often very simply communicated through outstretched arms. And even though the show has been toured and performed for over four years, they are so in the present moment that each game, object and distraction appears new to them. An upside down ladder becomes a musical instrument and ship’s steering wheel, before they remember what they wanted it for in the first place.This is a show of delightful one upmanship between a pair of awkward friends, who unashamedly share their feelings as they occur. Compagnia Baccalà is also at the peak of their game, as most clearly illustrated in their nail-biting play fight on a trapeze. The real danger is that you might miss the experience. Go, go and buy your ticket now.

Pss Pss ★★★★★Playtosee18/08/14

(UK)

Edimburgh Guide

16/08/14 (UK)

Show detailsVenue: Zoo SouthsideCompany : Compagnia Baccalà Running time: 65minsProduction: Camilla Pessi and Simone Fassari (show devisers), Louis Spagna (director), Valerio Fassari (artistic collaboration and technical management), Christoph Siegenthaler (lighting)Performers: Simone Fassari and Camilla PessiBaccalà Clown brings top of the range circus skills from Switzerland to Scotland.

There is a big black bare stage. Carousel sounds from another time, like a tilting waltz from a faintly scratched record fills the space. The two clowns shyly appear and are instantly captivating as they begin their playful silent narrative.The empty stage serves as a blank canvas for the escapades of the two friends and would be lovers who take the audience through a gamut of innocent emotions that are full of simple joy. Sensuous, insouciant and transporting, this gentle child- like dance of love and friendship transcends language and utterly captivates with imagination and fun. The audience is on board from the get go with some being more part of things than others. Be warned if you are a big strong chap!Their quaintly styled cartoonish costumes encapsulate their style – traditional and yet of now. Camilla’s look is reminiscent of Pippi Longstocking dressed in bright apple colours of red and green rather than two odd men’s shoes of black and brown! Simone in his shortie overcoat has an echo of the look of Jacques Tati. They employ traditional circus skills of acrobatics, bobbin spinning and trapeze that are pleasantly nail biting and involve some knee trembling daring. Their controlled haphazardness is under the sure direction of original Cirque du Soleil performer Louis Spagna. Traditional circus instruments of trumpet and accordion are part of the show with the novel addition of a ladder. Some fruit is also involved!This is virtuoso comic clowning practised with impressive modesty and a sheer delight to witness.Compagnia Baccalà began at Teatro Dimitri School in Switzerland and are winners of the Cirque du Soleil award at the 30th Festival du Cirque de Demainin Paris. They have performed over 300 international performances including the Avignon festival; the International Mime Festival London; Wuquao Festival China; Nikulin Circus Festival, Moscow as well as Brazil, Egypt, Guyana, Turkey, Polynesia, Morocco and Italy.

EdinburghGuide » Edinburgh's Festivals » Festival 2014 Reviews

Pss Pss!, Zoo Southside, Review - By Irene Brown

Mumble Comedy

14/08/14 (UK)

PSS PSSZoo Southside (Venue 82)Aug 14-17, 19-2518:50£10-£12

Cirque du Soleil award winners, The Compagnia Baccalà premiere at Edinburgh Fringe festival this year with Pss Pss, directed by Louis Spagna. Former students of the Teatro Dimitri school in Switzerland, clown duo Simone Fassari and Camilla Pessi have since united to create an intricate clown act that ranges from compelling comedic simplicity to intricate aerial circus theatre. Taking inspiration from Buster Keaton, Federico Fellini and of course Charlie Chaplin, until 2010, they largely played circuses and cabarets, before turning their hand to theatre-based clowning. Together they compliment each other’s opposing characters. Fassari portrays the older more mature of the two with a silent-movie appearance, who tries to remain sensible throughout, while Pessi in a bright concoction of tights and bloomers, is the mischievous, childlike and needy younger ‘sister’ with her wide-eyed expressions. The show is as much about their relationship as it is the stunts.

The curious blacked out stage comes to life and the lights gently come up, a bare stage. Pessi enters with a lunch box containing an apple they are oblivious to the audience, as they squabble over the apple. Sudden realisation on our presence, the stop, shocked, eyes popping out. Nervously and awkwardly, they attend to entertain us. She bows in victory because she managed to juggle a single apple! They continue to build on their skills, each stunt improving from the last, until Pessi balancing with one hand on Fassari’s head. Their reactions are precise and unexpected, even they appear surprised by what they have achieved. Their timeless performance of hilarious mishaps, simple gestures and outstanding acrobatics is utterly charming. The old-fashioned music hall act maintains a clumsy connection, communicating with the universal language of expression and action. From daft distracting dances, diablo misfortunes, long hugs, audience participation, banana delight, a musical ladder and tense trapeze slapstick, they had the audience giggling throughout the performance. Their volatile relationship takes us through emotions such us desire, disenchantment hope, yearning and a bit of tomfoolery. Although this show is extremely family friendly, sadly they only allow over eight year olds to attend, claiming it to be a clown show for adults. Either way their light, honest mime and acrobatic act is an all time good fun, world touring show and a must see this festival. Four funny stars!

http://mumblecomedy.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/pss-pss/

Fest15/08/14

(UK)

Pss Pss★★★★By Lucy RibchesterPublished 15 August 2014

Utterly loveable classic clownsIt’s a measure of how much Camilla Pessi and Simone Fassari are able to charm their audience, that within minutes of appearing on stage they draw a round of applause for tossing an apple from hand to hand.Pss Pss, from Switzerland-based Baccalà, is about as classic as the art of clowning comes; short-trousered, frilly-bloomered, flower-pot hatted, Pessi and Fassari could have stepped straight off the set of Fellini’s La Strada. By the end of the show their elastic eyebrows and Charlie Chaplain pouts make you want to hug them.They play around with their relationship to each other,

invoking jealousy, neediness, competition and wonder. But seen through the lens of a clown these are all are pared down to their basest forms; when Pessi covets a banana from Fassari he is torn between his own greed and the morally correct act of sharing, and the agony of the decision etched into his face is priceless in its pathos.It’s this honesty that makes Pss Pss so utterly loveable. The acrobatics are top notch, their carefully measured clumsiness so convincing that you often find yourself catching your breath. And their interaction with the audience, implicating us in their mischief, plants a seed of laughter that just keeps growing until the bumbling climax. Letting two clowns loose on a trapeze is always going to be a recipe for trouble, and Baccalà don’t disappoint. With all the desperate innovation going on at the Fringe it’s nice to be reminded that sometimes the old tricks are the best.

https://www.festmag.co.uk/theatre/102480-pss_pss

Pss Pss - ReviewThe Compagnia Baccalà are the duo Simone Fassari and Camilla Pessi. The stage is bare and the lights gently come up. What unfolds over the next hour is an intricate, textured clown piece that ranges from powerful comedic minimalism to elaborate aerial theatre and circus. I can't give away any more. Members of the audience gasped, not at the usual circus tricks, not at feats of juggling or acrobatics, but instead at silent looks, gentle, simple gestures, and often found themselves clapping in delight or appreciation at the drama and power in the space in-between - the interplay of he and she. So, he: Simone Fassari draws on Chaplin, but also on the clown of tears of older times. He is also his own man - able to seek pathos also be a teasingly enjoyable foil for the relationship dynamics with she; childlike, falteringly assertive, the flawed leader, he surrenders as much as he leads. So, she: Camilla Pessi is a rebel, a seeker, needy yet able to hold her own. Her stillness is astonishing, her eyes pop with curiousity and shock at the world, yet can equally warm and twinkle. So, they: an alchemy of mutual need and all too human friction, of dependency and separation, of synergy and tragicomic clumsy connection. Two performers; a relationship, a narrative that is confusing in places, but for good, designed reasons. Human relationships are a mystery we look to clarify, we send accusation of betrayal with our eyes, or the way we turn our backs. It is all here, so wonderfully done. This is (and here I unashamedly and literally use the old phrase) poetry in motion. It's fun, often beautifully heartbreaking and all clown should be. Slowness abounds, almost musical, before

erupting into reaction and provocation. We see the unfolding dynamics between our two Chaplinesque protagonists. There's a courage here to allow the moment to stretch and to last as long as it needs to. Laughter in the audience bubbles often out of these silences.- silences that speak of hope, disappointment, expectation, longing and a bit of mischief. The bare stage becomes filled with our two characters; man and woman, partners in crime, all conflict, clutching and exploration. Sometimes they become a four-legged beast; at other times we have separate performances, woven, meanderingly together through acrobatics, a bit of dance, much sharing and withholding in a kind of political dance. I enjoyed the tension created by polarity, and found myself sitting forwards when the emotional content of the piece developed in micro-stories within the overall performance. It became fascinating. Earlier I mentioned "texture". There's such a commitment to subtlety here; the movement is so often deft, the facial and eye theatre integrated with bodily movement and gesture, that what we have here is fully integrated performance. At one level it is light, gentle, fun. At other levels we have archetypes at work, that underpin the human condition - longing for connection, status, curiosity and hurt. Even deeper we have the journey, especially those journeys we take when we have little or nothing, when just an apple becomes a universe of possibility. Two very fine performers have brought clown to Zoo Southside and though some of the aerial work was a little rough and tentative, the piece as a whole is one of the best clown pieces I've ever seen at the Fringe. Poised, and more able to bring clown right into just the eyes and the turn of the head, than I have ever witnessed, this is a master-class in a form that often strays too far into literalism and "tricks". Any tricks in Pss Pss did not take centre stage - the more subtle comedy interplay was always at the centre, with the circus elements serving that energetic effect. That's unique. That's outstanding. Reviewed by Paul Levy 11th August 2014

Edinburg Fringe

11/08/14 (UK)

Total Theatre11/08/14

(UK)

Compagnia Baccala: Pss Pssin Reviews | by Dorothy Max Prior Tags: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014

Sometimes a show is such a total delight that it is hard to write about it without

just gushing ‘See it, see it!’ – Pss Pss is such a show. See it, see it. Winner of a Cirque du Soleil prize, and playing the Edinburgh Fringe after successful appearances worldwide, including at the London International Mime Festival, it comes with great expectations. Fulfilled – I was entranced from beginning to end by these two gorgeous clowns, who here demonstrate circus skills galore and comic timing to die for. Poetry in motion.They start very slowly. A lunch box, an apple, an envious glance, a raised eyebrow, silence. She juggles with her one apple. The audience applaud loudly – it’s just a few minutes in but she’s already won our hearts, looking at us quizzically with her big eyes from below her little grey skull cap, bunches of unruly brown hair escaping from the sides. He looks at her with a pitying, mocking look and places his apple on his head. She splits it in one killer blow.Throughout, they play the status game – with twists. He appears to get the upper hand a lot of the time, then she trumps him. They hug, he tries to disengage himself, she resists and clings to him like a baby monkey, this turns into a beautiful and fluid acrobalance sequence – piggy-backs to shoulder stands with scarcely a pulse between; dead man drops that end an inch from the ground and immediately melt into something new. Their softness and agility is amazing.The circus skills are worked into the clown relationship effortlessly. The diabolo section is a classic demonstration of merging circus skills with clowning – he spins the diabolo, there are drops. She does a dippy dance to cover the drops.

There are some great moments of audience interaction, for example, an ultra-silly scene bringing a stepladder onstage over the heads of the crowd. The grand finale is a trapeze act, featuring broken ladders, tangled limbs, and a fantastic frog-hang. I don’t know if such a thing exists in aerial circus, but there is no other word for it that I can think of to describe this fantastic image of our green-legged clown dangling from on high, abandoned by her partner. She does get down – with a little help from a friend. I won’t say how…The performance by both clowns is world class. The costumes are just right, a mix of classic and contemporary clown imagery (he’s in a brown pin-striped suit and a trilby; she’s in red pixie boots that match her velvet bloomers). The use of music is beautifully considered, with silence playing an important part. I love the way a whimsical waltz or fairground oom-pa-pa polka suddenly stops as the performers freeze to stare each other out; or the way Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is played live by blowing through ladder rungs, to be picked up in the soundscape. In another section, the talented twosome have a battle of musical instruments, she on accordion, he on trumpet (louder, brasher – of course). She takes lots of solos; he retaliates with pure volume. The battle ends in the longest stage hug in history.These two are such delightful company that inevitably they bring the (full) house down and receive a noisy standing ovation from a delighted, mostly young, crowd at Zoo Southside. So good to see such timeless and beautiful clown work receiving this sort of response. See it, see it. No really, see it.Pss Pss is shortlisted for a Total Theatre Award for Physical and Visual Performance at the Edinburgh Fringe 2014.

http://totaltheatre.org.uk/baccala-clown-pss-pss/

Pss PssZoo Southside

IT'S a real deal circus. You get juggling, acrobatics, trapeze work, clowning. But the most breath-taking trick of all is that

the whole kaboodle is accomplished quite brilliantly by just two people, Camilla Pessi and Simone Fassari, who perform as Compagnia Baccala .She arrives first, a doll-like zany in colourful raggle-taggle layers. When he appears, there's a hint of Chaplin in the chalk-stripe trousers, braces, little hat. Side by side, they're the stuff of oddball humour.A tempting cake box divulges - an apple. There's some comedy grab'n'grab-back clowning between them that, in the toss of a single fruit, leads into a juggling routine that is skilfully silly and ridiculously competitive.

And so it goes. The clowning sets up hilarious possibilities of mishap and mayhem - but in the midst of it going awry, she really does balance on his head in a series of impressive acrobatics before descending into goofiness again.A trapeze and a ladder afford more opportunities for ingenious foolery - but don't be fooled. This couple of clowns have a wealth of tumbling, balancing and flying expertise at their fingertips - and they totally understand when it is time to let go (oops! and tee-hee-hee).

Mary Brennan

Wednesday 6 August 2014

http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage/fringe-circus-reviews.24964732

The Herald6/08/14

(UK)

OUEST France

9/08/13 (FR)

NOIRMOUTIER EN L’ile

Pss Pss, qu’on se le dise dans le creux de l’oreille, en chuchotant ou en hurlant de rire, la Compagnia Baccalà a définitement donné le ton à ce 21ème Festival de Théâtre : rire, émotion, sensibilité !

Ce couple de clown amoureux a emporté le public, tous les âges confondus, dans un univers baroque et sentimental. Les étoiles elles-mêmes en scintillant de bonheur. Avec pour seul dialogue verbal quelques Pss Pss , les deux personnages amoureux de Peynet, revisités façon années 2000, ont su raconter leur passion amoureuse, leurs déceptions, leurs disputes en jonglant, en jouant de la musique et d’un instrument improbable, une échelle (si si, si !), en se contorsionnant pour finir sur un trapéze où l’instabilité de leur couple finissant par s’équilibrer grâce à leur passion l’un pour l’autre.

La Marseillaise30/07/13

(FR)

Les écoliers découvrent le spectacle vivant - sortie Près de 200 petits Ossalois de CP et CE1 ont profité d'un spectacle de grande qualité, plusieurs fois

primé au festival off d'Avignon, à Moscou ou en Chine. "Pss Pss" est un spectacle de clowns tour à tour acrobates, mimes ou poètes. Drôle forcément, enchanteur sûrement. Un instituteur de la vallée d'Ossau est même monté sur scène pour jouer avec les comédiens. Tous les élèves ont adoré et applaudi.

Désormais deux fois par an, les cycles 2 de la vallée d'Ossau profitent de l'excellente programmation pluridisciplinaire de la salle Jéliote d'Oloron Sainte-Marie. "Cette opération, explique Francis Courouau, résulte d'un partenariat mis en place entre les communautés de communes de la vallée d'Ossau et du Piémont Oloronais. Elle vise à favoriser l'accessibilité au spectacle vivant et à susciter chez les élèves éveil et curiosité face à la création artistique. La communauté de communes de la vallée d'Ossau finance l'achat des spectacles et les transports". Le conseil général subventionne une partie de l'opération et il reste à charge de l'école un droit d'entrée symbolique de 3 € par place. Le prochain rendez-vous aura lieu à l'automne.

La Répu-blique des Pyrénées27/07/13

Pss Pss ★★★★Deux clowns contemporains nous embarquent dans leur monde poétique, surréel, intimiste et infiniment drôle avec énormément de plaisir. Le jonglage, l’acro-batie, la musique sont exploités à merveille. Le spec-tacle est rythmé par des mimiques très drôles, exé-

cutées avec finesse et excellence. Ce couple s’aime, s’affronte, se les réconcilie, et se supporte, tout cela avec le langage universel du corps et du regard. Ils nous font rire jusqu’au bout !

Leur performance cachée par leur humour et leur fausse maladresse est époustouflante, ils sautent, virevoltent dans tous les sens. Ces per-sonnages sans parole nous font rêver avec leur histoire tendrement fascinante où tout leur est permis. Pour petits et grands ce numéro complet est fait avec beaucoup de talent !

Théâtre des Lucioles, 10 rue rempart St Lazare, à 12h05 tous les jours jusqu’au 28 juillet, Tarifs 16€ ; 11€ et 9€. Réservation 04 90 14 05 51 - Gratuit

Coline Beyret

La Provence24/07/13

(FR)

«PSS PSS» Par la «Compania Baccalà» Au "Théâtre des Lucioles",Deux farfadets nous affolentDe leurs clownesques mimiquesEt de leur sens du comique.

L’air ahuri, pathétique,Dans une vision cosmique,Ces deux bons circassiens détournent le tragiqueEn le saupoudrant d’une douceur poétique.Autour d’une pomme ou avec un diabolo,

Leur jeu de main à main devient un numéroDe farce, tant original que rigolo.Les arrêts sur image, faux temps de repos,Font mieux assimiler leur généreux tempo.

Performance trapéziste fort fantaisisteEt une échelle musicale qui existePar la volonté d’un jeune duo d’artistesQui nous ont proposé un joli tour de piste.

Béatrice Chaland

BClerideau-rouge

16/07/13 (FR)

Des micro-acrobaties et une méga poésiePar Carine Aribeux

C’est fou ce qu’il peut y avoir comme drôlerie dans l’émotion ; comme émotion dans le rire... Formée de Simone Fassari (prononcer « simoné

», comme un prénom de garçon italien) et Camilla Pessi, la Compagnia Baccalà a fait sa marque de fabrique du délicieux sentiment composite qui affleure dans ses spectacles. Et les prix qu’elle remporte avec régularité depuis sa formation en 2004 semblent ponctuer les coups de cœur qu’elle provoque sur sa tournée.

La formule magique de ces artistes ? Une subtile alchimie sûrement. Muets, dépourvus de nez rouges et de souliers géants, ils échafaudent leurs acrobaties sur des trames de poésie dont l’équilibre transporte. Il leur suffit de trois fois rien, comme à ceux qui ont du talent : une pomme à croquer (prémices de malédiction), une échelle, un trapèze, quelques notes de musique...

Jouant alternativement du mime et d’une technique ultra-maîtrisée de « micro-acrobatie », ils flottent entre burlesque réalité et fantaisie surréaliste. Leur éternelle histoire de fusion fascine, leurs cascades époustouflent, leurs faux ratages gondolent. Bref, le courant passe et le charme opère à tous les degrés des générations. Il ne faut pas manquer l’occasion de capturer une de leurs grandes heures de spectacle de passage dans la région. Ne pas résister à l’appel enfantin de leur délicieuse parenthèse.

« PSS PSS » de la Compagnia Baccalà, mardi 9 avril à 20 h 30 à La Canopée à Ruffec (16), de 6 € à 15 €, 05 45 31 32 82. Jeudi 11 avril à 20 h 30 au Gallia Théâtre à Saintes (17), de 11 € à 17 €, 05 46 92 10 20. Samedi 13 avril à 20 h 30 à La Palène à Rouillac (16), de 6 € à 14 €, 05 45 96 80 38. Mercredi 24 avril à 15 h à l’espace Jeliote à Oloron-Sainte-Marie (64), 5 €, 05 59 39 98 68. Tout public à partir de 5 ans.

Sud OUEST7/04/13

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Les Dernières Nouvelles D’Alsace9/03/13

Midi Libre19/12/12

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Mercredi, le Théâtre de Laval a fait salle comble pour la représentation de Pss pss, de la compagnie italienne Compagnia Baccalà. 18 h, dans une quasi-obscurité, une mélodie entremêlant accordéon et trompette impose le silence au jeune public. À tour de rôle, les deux artistes, Camilla Pessi et Simone Fassari, entrent en scène. Elle, chapeau vissé sur la tête d'où dépassent deux couettes à l'horizontal, est vêtue aux couleurs italiennes. Lui, porte un pantalon tenu par des bretelles qui laisse apparaître ses chaussettes rouge et noir. Leurs visages sont maquillés mais pas de nez rouge.L'histoire est simple : un homme, une femme, une pomme et un amour qui s'ignore. Entre cirque, théâtre et mine, les deux clowns transportent le public qui rit souvent, s'esclaffe parfois. C'est plein de rythme, les situations sont cocasses. Au fur et à mesure, la magie opère. Les acrobaties s'enchaînent. L'histoire prend de la hauteur, pour se retrouver sur un trapèze. C'est tendrement émouvant, conjuguant prouesses techniques et poésie. C'est physiquement et visuellement incroyable.

Pss pss jongle entre prouesses techniques et poésie - Laval OUEST France23/11/12

Le Télegramme24/01/12

Pss Pss, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London Zoë Anderson

Simone Fassari and Camilla Pessi, the award-winning double act Baccala Clowns, bow in triumph because they’ve managed to juggle a single apple. Then they flip coolly through challenging acrobatics, Pessi poised on one hand on Fassari’s head as part of the London International Mime Festival, Pss Pss is Baccala Clowns’ first show for theatres rather than circus, developed with director Louis Spagna. Fassari and Pessi present themselves as an old-fashioned music hall act. He has a silent-movie look, with pale face and slicked-back hair. Pessi, in a bright assortment of tights and bloomers, has a ready pout and an air of wide-eyed surprise. Their reactions are precise and unexpected. As acrobats, they swing from slapstick to beautiful poise, with sidelong glances and competitive sidling. Pessi clambers up Fassari, wobbling as she stands on his shoulders, then his head. Holding his hands, she unfolds into a handstand on his upraised arms. Back on the ground, she puffs out her cheeks goofily, in the face they both pull to encourage each other. Both characters are single-minded and easily distracted: they’re completely focused on something, until their attention switches onto the next idea. When Fassari starts to eat a banana, Pessi watches with greedy calculation, waiting her moment to pounce. He gets it back from her by distracting her attention, pointing out a fixed trapeze overhead. The trouble is, he can’t look away either. How do you eat a banana while gazing open-mouthed at something directly above you?

They can’t reach the trapeze by jumping or balancing, so Pessi and Fassari get hold of a stepladder – only to be distracted by that. The steps rock, snap shut on them, even become a musical instrument when they blow through its hollow rungs. The ladder still isn’t high enough to reach the trapeze, until Simone climbs it with Pessi on his shoulders.

On the trapeze, they launch into heart-in-mouth slapstick, a very funny catalogue of tangled limbs, missed catches, last-minute rescues and long-suffering glances to the audience. Getting down is even harder than getting up. Simone leaves Pessi hanging,

stuck in the air long enough to get bored, heave a put-upon sigh and cross one leg tidily

over the other. In mid-air, the characterisation is as deft as it is on the ground.

The Independant16/01/12

Les Nouvelles de Tahiti9/11/11

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Le temps de vivre

Pss Pss : les Baccalà clown au Petit ThéâtreCIRQUE. Samedi soir, pour leur deuxième soirée de représentation à Tahiti, les Baccalà clown ont gagné tous les coeursdu Petit Théâtre, petits et grands réunis. Les spectateurs ont salué leur prestation étincelante par une standing ovation.Pss Pss est un spectacle à ne pas manquer : 1 heure de pur plaisir.

CAMILLA PESSI ET SIMONE FASSARI se sont rencon-tres à la fin des années 90 à la Scuola teatro dimitri.C'est en 2004 qu'ils ont créé leur duo clownesque etquatre numéros avec lesquels ils ont remporté lesplus grands prix du cirque. En 2010, ils ont décide demonter un spectacle complet : Pss Pss, sous la direc-tion de Louis Spagna (qui a signé la mise en scène duspectacle Ha Ha Ha des clowns OKidOK).

ENTRE AUTRES NUMEROS DE JONGLAGE ET ACROBATIES EN TOUT GENRE,le binôme italien montre de nombreux talents : diabolo, trompette, accor-déon...

IES GIFLES SONT SUR MESURE, lesacrobaties calculées a la seconde et aumillimètre près, les numéros sont maî-trisés et rodés comme du papier àmusique. Les quelque 65 minutes duspectacle nécessitent, à n'en pas dou-ter, un travail herculéen en coulisses.

Pss Pss : la Compagnia Baccalà au Petit Théâtre

La Sicilia15/05/11

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