Stek breathes the street — its noise and its smoke. Through dance, theatre, stunt work, music, acrobatics, juggling, and clowning, Stek carefully creates a universe reminiscent of a summer storm: refreshing and wild.

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Stek surrenders itself to the street, which is both mother and home. Stek immerses the audience in a simple, rhythmic, and sensitive world that adapts to the space and the situation. It evokes a universe that embraces, through its openness, the freshness of improvisation: Stek is the present moment.

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It is the bond between four beings who assign equal value to everything that creaks and rattles. It is the inexhaustible poetry born from marginality, uncertainty, family, and precarity.

Stek tells the story of four marginal characters living an offbeat everyday life, where life itself may be worth no more than a piece of bread, and where the hungry may become brothers in the struggle for survival.

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With its carefully raw universe, Stek is madness and solitude. Not always in that order. But above all, it is the fierce joy of living. The pleasure of not being alone.

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Stek is timelessness and indifference. But it is also a cold punch to the face, here and now.

Stek speaks about life itself. About night and day, always in that order. About the bonds that emerge from shared experience. About the need for tenderness.

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Stek speaks about magical, shining, disgusting, and rotting garbage that is everywhere. About that very same garbage that can also become treasure. About trousers that are too short and coats that are too long. About being too poor, too dirty, too strange, too much…

About not fitting in — and therefore belonging. 

 

Intrepidus Squad is a performing arts collective founded in 2020, composed of Léo Morala (France), Ottavio Stazio (Italy), Mario Barragán (Mexico), and Analía Vincent (Uruguay), following their studies, particularly the final three years of professional training at the Higher School of Circus Arts in Toulouse (ESACTO LIDO).

Intrepidus places special emphasis on interaction with the audience. The expansion and democratization of culture lie at the core of their work; for this reason, in addition to theatres, they are also actively present in public spaces.

They cultivate a broad and authentic artistic approach. Each creation emerges from the interpersonal relationships within the collective, a shared need for expression, and the desire to connect with audiences. Through this process, they develop a hybrid and sensitive artistic language that blurs the boundaries between urban dance, circus, theatre, and music.

Curiosity is a key driving force in the work of Intrepidus Squad. At the beginning of their artistic journey, they embrace the complexity of creation while continuously exploring new ways of artistic expression and narrative-making.

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Winner of the 2023 Beaumarchais-SACD Writing Grant. Supported by FoRTE and Région Île-de-France. Co-produced by Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde (Bagneux, 92), L’Azimut (Antony, 92), La Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque en Normandie – Cirque Théâtre d’Elbeuf, Pôle National Cirque (Elbeuf, 76), La Brèche, Pôle National Cirque (Cherbourg, 50), Le Carré Magique, Pôle National Cirque en Bretagne (Lannion, 22), and Métis’Gwa (Les Abymes, Guadeloupe).

 

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5PGysH9Krc

 

With the support of the French Institute in Serbia and Teatroskop, a program initiated by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the French Ministry of Culture, and Institut français Paris.