About La Croustade

La Croustade was born from a meeting between Eline Guélat and Vincent Jutras in 2016. Since 2016, the two artists have been working more and more together to develop and refine a style that is both innovative and representative of their desires.
La Croustade's main mandate is the creation of multidisciplinary shows.

The two co-founders and co-directors of La Croustade have different artistic visions that intersect in many places. They both have the desire to push the form of the circus; to use the circus vocabulary that they possess and use it to create a new artistic product that is above all alive. They wish, while keeping their pure circus roots, to create works that merge and navigate easily between contemporary/urban dance, physical theater and clowning. They are inspired by many other art forms (painting, video, photography, cinema, fashion, architecture, comics, sculpture, music, video games, board games, cartoons, among others) to feed their work.

Eline and Vincent are simple people who base their creation on the human in its simplest form. It is very important to them that the artist shines as much by his inner beauty as by his pathos. La Croustade is interested in themes of life such as childhood, adolescence, adulthood, death, pleasure, love, friendship, games, human stupidity, innocence and the subconscious. But also through physical concepts such as the elasticity of a body, falls, gravity, tension, release, breaks in time and many others.
Her mission is to help rediscover our childlike souls through playfulness