A bottle of whisky, a dozen shot glasses, knives, balls of crumpled paper, baited rat traps, and a performer who abandons himself to danger. A voluntary submission, a way of feeling alive in the deepest fibres of his being. With composure and solemnity, the skilled devotee of walking the line rewrites the rules. In quasi-religious silence, he alternatively tests his skill and downs draughts of alcohol, before throwing himself into a delicate balance over a forest of spiky blades. In Take Care of Yourself, Marc Oosterhoff explores the very essence of circus - risk - creating a psycho-physical thriller that makes the audience shiver with fear and pleasure in equal measure.

Created by Marc Oosterhoff in 2017, Cie MOOST is a company that mixes dance and circus, seeking a unique and non-elitist form of expression for the performing arts.
The company has a repertoire of productions that it performs:
Take Care of Yourself 2015, by and with Marc Oosterhoff, created at the Sevelin36 theatre in Lausanne.
Palette(s) 2017, by and with Cédric Gagneur and Marc Oosterhoff, created in Lausanne at La Manufacture.
Les Promesses de l’incertitude (The Promises of Uncertainty) 2019, by Marc Oosterhoff, with Marc Oosterhoff, Raphael Raccuia and Filipe Pascoal created in Geneva at L’Abri. Lab Rats 2021, by and with Marc Oosterhoff and Owen Winship created in Lausanne at the Sévelin36 theatre.
Natures mortes (Still lifes), is a production due to be created in 2022, by and with Camille Denkinger, Latifeh Hadji and Marc Oosterhoff.

Production | MOOST

Supports | cultural Per-cent Migros in the scope of PREMIO, Fluxum Foundation, Corodis

A scheme created and funded by Pro Helvetia and Corodis, the Swiss Selection in Avignon is supported by the Geneva Republic and the Geneva Canton, the City of Lausanne, the Yverdon-les Bains municipality, the Vaud Canton, Neuchâtel City and Canton and the Swiss Society of Authors (SSA), the Ernst Göhner Foundation, Migros Culture Percentage, the Jan Michalski Foundation for writing and literature, the Petram Foundation, the Corymbo Foundation, the Fluxum Foundation, and the Consulate General of Switzerland in Marseille.

Marc Oosterhoff graduated with a Bachelor degree in movement theatre from the Accademia Teatro Dimitri de Verscio in 2012. After graduating, he went to China for six months to study martial arts, where he also continued to practice parkour (free-running) and circus acrobatics. For two years, he worked as an actor, before going to La Manufacture - University of Performing Arts in Lausanne where he earned a second Bachelor degree, this time in Contemporary Dance. In 2016, as the Artistic Director of Cie Moost, he performed his first solo piece based on risk as part of the Quarts d’heure de Sévelin programme: Take Care of Yourself. In 2017 he collaborated with the dancer Cédric Gagneur to choreograph Palette(s). In 2018, he created a second solo: Les Promesses de l’incertitude (The Promises of Uncertainty) with the musician Raphael Raccuia. He has recently created another new production, Lab Rats, a duo with Owen Winship, which will be performed in the framework of the upcoming Bâtie-Festival in Geneva.