A grand aquatic spectacle

Rivers, lakes, seas and ports are, alongside forests, our reservoirs of the imaginary.

Untrodden stages, stretches of water rest unbuilt-upon breaths of the urban, fragments of horizon which transport the contemporary citizen as does the jungle that fringes a town.

The mythologies born out of this element, also build our future, from surf to engulfment, between ideals of sliding, fears of shortages and research of the unfathomed.

It is upon this already teeming surface that Ilotopie have created
Water Fools.

Solving countless technical difficulties in order to allow the actor to keep his expressive powers and his liberty of movement on the liquid element, we understood that each living image torn from its improbability made a new myth, from a single gesture and a single way of being; Thus a ‘water piece' for 15 actors and thousands of spectators was born.

Be it with autonomous lighting, fireworks designed by Groupe F or the musical writing of Phil Spectrum, Water Fools carries away the spirit, when a simple citizen's hum-drum between cars and lamp posts topples over into the nonsensical, and the ordinary evaporates to give voice to a different world.

Actor-chimeras, fire jousts, musical flights or incandescent machinery will then, carried on by masterly touches of light, colour and explosion, trace the ephemeral dramatic and utopian condition of mankind.

« On frail skiffs, drifting humanity plays with fire and gets burnt. » Sylvie Adam, France 3 TV

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