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tHE “CubE”
rémy Bénard is a cyr wheel and German wheel specialist who trained at
the national centre for circus Arts (cnAc) he reflected on the shape of
the wheel, and decided to explore its variations he believes in acrobatic potential
and the possibility of manipulating these shapes together with the workshop
in charge of devising and making pieces of apparatus in the school, they agreed
to try and build a new structure: the cube
it is always difficult to evaluate the potential of an apparatus
in advance. the construction of prototypes was therefore
essential whereby different shapes could be tested.
Following this first stage it was determined that every
object moved on a trajectory which was determined by
its shape. these prototypes enabled the team to explore
the possibility of movement, on a reduced scale, to inform
their choices before moving into the construction phase.
Before constructing the piece of apparatus, it was necessary
to plan an acrobatic piece in order to better calculate
the forces exerted and resistances necessary.
the main difficulty was finding the balance between the
weight of the object and its robustness. once finalised,
the apparatus had to be robust enough in order to be used
for acrobatic work but also light enough to be manipulated.
in order to transfer the technical skills used in cyr
wheel and German wheel, the new objects had to abide by
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