The future waterborne creation
by the group ilotopie.

Aquatic Oxymores

For Spring 2010

They're here, the jellyfish-women, and many swimmers have already been turned to stone, in this great garden of reef.

Water's shared dreamings rise to the surface, between archaicism and technology, presenting an image of dazzling progress...perhaps too dazzling. But already the windcatchers are turning, the sun electrifying, and another adventure is beginning. A body of water is never the same twice, when humans put themselves once more to the task of construction.

A grand nocturnal aquatic performance with twelve actors and a floating set that renders the positive energy gathered during the day to power music, sound and light.

The following texts offer points of view drawn from our significant theatrical and performance experience with « Des publics du bord de l'eau » (Watchers from the Shore) and lay the groundwork for the creation in progress which will combine grand visual performance, technological and political utopia, to go far beyond the boundaries of traditional theatre.

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