Terces is a secret to be read backwards (an anadrome). In French, the verb tercer also means to till the soil for a third time. Terces builds upon the first two iterations of this show (which came to Vidy in 2007 and 2017), as well as the progression of the circus artist's research.

Johann Le Guillerm's circus plays with transformations and balances: of his body, alone in the ring, grappling with unusual objects, singular machines and simple materials; of our points of view, which converge towards the round ring of the big top and which the sequences reflect in their surprise; of time; of forms. For this lanky man walks through a world we thought we knew. He reveals to us how – by leaving at the door what seems predicated on logic, by engaging with other heights, by accepting to trust in the impossible –other principles appear that we could not previously see: for example, a wheel becomes a line if we look at it from the front (and now, imagine a line that rolls – amazing isn't it? What do we lose by never looking at a wheel from the front?)

Johann Le Guillerm uncovers these principles with his hands and his patient mind. For the past twenty years, he has gathered them under the name of Attraction, a vast experimental quest to capture reality from all its angles, its movements and suspensions, however ephemeral or unexpected they may be. Aboard a vessel of metamorphoses, he takes young and old into a world of a thousand future discoveries, because the secret is in what exists – the circus is his territory.