Kalabazi tells the story of a young woman who, with one free hour before leaving, decides to spend it in a rather unusual way: by getting married! But not to just anyone. She organises a contest of love to discover which person in the audience might be the ideal groom.

With a touch of magic, two daring spectators step forward and are put through a series of challenges, while she encourages them with astonishing bicycle acrobatics and amusing performances in which she speaks and sings backwards. Who will win the protagonist’s heart?

Blending clowning, circus, and poetry with great skill, this show takes the audience on an emotional journey filled with roaring laughter and moments of pure poetry.

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Jessica Arpin is a circus artist, fascinating and adventurous, she travels the world to perfect her art and perform on the streets and in the chapiteaux of the most important international festivals.

Born in Brazil and raised between the United States and Geneva, she began studying circus and theater at a very young age, at the Thèatre-Cirqule School. At the age of 18, she moved to Canada, where she graduated from the École du Cirque de Montréal, a hotbed of worldwide talent. Since then she has performed on stages and squares all over the world with the shows Kalabazi, La Chanteuse, Lex / Pulsion, Miss Margherita. Brazil, Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, Italy, Nuvavut (North Pole), each time in the local language, she grows professionally in the art of "without borders"; between theater, nouveau cirque, clownerie and cabaret. The wind in her voice, the fire in her actions, she acts in the universe of the clown, an entity that is found everywhere and nowhere, without linguistic, social, geographical and political limits.