La Crepuscule

At Dusk and into Darkness a while ago, there was a Les Nuits Romanes presentation at Vicq-sur-Gartempe.  "La Compagnie Avis de Tempête" from La Rochelle, presented "Estrellita" : set in 1945, it incorporated music, theatre, comedy, acrobatics, trapeze. Aerial poetry against a church, lit to highlight exterior and interior architecture.  Difficult to take night photos.

The music supported an aerial display by a woman on a trapeze, hooked to a safety line, whilst kinetic energy worked the rope swing.  She wrapped it around her legs or feet or body,  then released herself to fall but of course the rope held her.  I was with her on the swing.  I felt that heart beat, that exhilaration when one pushes higher and higher to the bar! 
The theatrical setting was of a different bar... a bal guingette, where four musicians played an Italian styled musette accordion, a double bass, a silvery sparkly drum and percussion kit,  and a violin, the sound of which wasn't sufficiently acoustically balanced to hear melodies that followed those of the accordion.  The woman sat with her back to the chap as if in disagreement or dispute.  Maybe they were lovers, because after his balancing skills on four chairs and a table, which the waiter had prepared, dusted and cleaned, she suddenly threw herself through the air to wrap herself silently across his body like a tiny child who clings to its mother. Wow... Later, he received her feet on his hands with the weight of her body after she had ended her trapeze act.  It reminded me of how my grand daughter aged six has always and still does, stand on her father's hands and feet! I was impressed with the style of music... it is music I have sometimes played... Parisian style musette from 1940s. 
I ordered a CD because they had sold out!  It arrived, but now the laptop CD player has decided not to operate! 
The evening was extremely well attended... though the elderly, older than I, who were sat could not have seen much apart from all the heads in front of them.