The first creation from Collectif AOC saw this young group defying gravity with a heady cocktail of contemporary circus, dance and live music from an onstage DJ/musician.

Directed by Fatou Traoré (previously seen with Alain Platel’s Ballet C de la B) performers were propelled through the air by a huge, centre-stage trampoline. La Syncope du 7 also featured aerial work at its most original and acrobatics that made you want to dance.

Collectif AOC is a company made up of circus artists whose identity is expressed in relationship to movement, to the apparatus and by a sense of space.

Created in 2001, La Syncope du 7 played 157 times across Europe, Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong) and Australia in the following three years. La Syncope du 7 was part of BITE:03 at London’s Barbican.