CARNÉ(T) is a performance by Elsa Caillat, a vertical-rope acrobat and co-founder of Cie Toron Blues, in which she revisits her own artistic and physical journey at the age of 40. Standing at a crossroads between past and future, vigour and erosion, the artist dives into an intimate account of the body that has carried her for decades – an allied body, an injured body, a protesting body, a body that persists.

Born from a process of writing, research, and artistic experimentation, CARNÉ(T) questions the obsolescence of the performative body and the place of the female artist in contemporary circus. Between spoken word, stillness, memory, and gesture stripped to the essential, the performance reveals the doubts, fears, fractures, and acts of perseverance that inhabit those who live through their own bodies.

The show opens space for a new way of being on stage: less rooted in physical prowess and more in presence, listening, and reinvention. A body that stops dominating the apparatus and begins to converse with it. An artist who, by shifting circus codes, imagines other possibilities, other ways of belonging, resisting, and continuing.

Above all, CARNÉ(T) is an urgent gesture: transforming fragility into strength, wear into artistic material, and the passing of time into the hope of continuity.