Création 2010 :

"Aquatic Oxymorons"

A new Work on water

The grand,
absurd
and well-done spectacle


 


- location : port, lake or river
-current : 2km/h max.
-nocturnal show
-all public
-length : 45 mn
-audience : about 5000 to 10000
Spectators settled down the bank
-get-in, rehearsal : 3 days
-get-out: 1,5 day
-technical survey indispensable

Water Fools
Aquatic fantasmagoria

A field of experiences marrying new theatre with an ancient element.

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.

Actor-chimeras, fire joust, 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

 

 




-location : river, canal pond, port...
with a stretch of water at least
50m x 40m
-current 2km/hour max.
-frontal and nocturnal
-all kinds of public
-form : show with theatre, sculpture and choreography
-length : 1 hourquays or banks to accomodate the audience
-audience : about 1500 spectators depending on the location
-get-in + rehearsal : 2 days
-get-out: 1 day
-technical survey indispensable

Narcissus Reflects
A show for still water

Beings atomised in the joy of their selves, echoes of influences, clones of transparency, clowns of appearences, actor-imago, man-logo, icons of flesh, silhouettes screens, here lie all manner of strange poetic and contemporary beasts, living funny or fascinating reflections :
There are those who beat the laundry, watching washerwomen, one who sinks as he reaches to the sky, one who shatters his own image with a sledgehammer, one who retraces his life through unceasing doors, he whose brain burns and through all of them floats Echo, abandoned in love, like a tree, like a bed, like a flower.

It's at night, upright on the water, that the eight mobile and floating actors of our show set about to rouse the ghosts of this blinding social narcissism.
Here the water is the stage-worlds wings and all we seek is sent back to us by this rippling lying mirror where above all bodies dominate the space. Narcissus reflects us.

Later on , only a scattering of freshly opened bulbs floating on the once more and smooth and impenetrable water, bear witness to this strange mirror game which has just drawn the public in.

 




-visual repetitive episode performance
-place : river,canal, lake...
-diurnal
-all the audiance
-length : about 3hours
-set up : 1 day
-set down : 1 day

Islands Collectors
Prefabricated paradises

Land and natural
performance form

Walking or riding on streets and areas, colored people are looking for a paradise like their own image.
Taking gawpers and spectators along the waterside, each of our monochromatic people accost on well-matched islets, spreading series of life episodes

 


- Land Act 1: "Pathway to the sea " beach route at Port Saint Louis

- Land Act II: "Park Guell, Crazy Park" Parc Güell, Barcelona 2002

- Land Act III: "The Astonishing River " Jours de Loire, Tours 2003

Land Act
Landscape theater

Thee Land Act is a public artistic action in wide-open spaces.

The spectators, on foot or by car, follow utopias, installations, landscapes worked on by actors and dancers.


We're ready to study all possibilities of newly invented journeys with you and your landscape

 



- location: indoors or outdoors
- day or nght
- form: a series of actor-shows for a wandering audience
- minimum 10 participants
- from 50 to 500 spectators

The Menus Plaisirs
Like a card game

Very close-up theater, the Menus Plaisirs is a fragmented show set along a pathway for spectator-guests.

Each character is unnameable, at the same time body and set, authors and bringers of a proposed play or act to be shared or even eaten, with the spectators.

 



location: minimum exterior space 50m long / 8m large
- durée: 6 or 9 days 24/24h, get-in and get-out inside
- form: installation-spectacle for inhabitants, neighbours, spectators...
- 10 artists + technical people (3)

CoNFINES
Creation for 2004

CoNFINES is a visible village in the public eye on the public highway, inviting a nourishing of all types of curiosities. It's a zone, a porous space with no outside or inside, an architecture of women and men designed like over coats, habitats to receive one another.
Confines is the installa-tion of an ephemeral disparate site in a public space wich lays itself open to passersby and spectators over a period of several days.
Maybe a village obove the city, maybe a utopia...

 



- location: indoors or/and outdoors
- form: ambulatory with set finale
- daytime
- lenght: 1hr30
- audience: people in town

The Coloured People
Bodies at large in the city

Re-dressed in a bright and shining second skin the coloured people move around the city magnifying Man's image.

Finally they take up residence on a territory of sand whose colour calls to them. And it's in the immobilising exuberance of foam that they lose themselves.

 



- location: exterior or vast interior
- form: the audience circulates around 4 fixed points
- day or night
- lenghth: 1hr30
- audience: around 1000 spectators

The Caged Foam
Repeated fragments of a universe

Brew up five actors in music and 1000 litres of polyurethane foam in five individual cages. Drain for two hours!

Finally the actors, fossilised in touching poses drawn from daily life, are sawed from their bonds and carried away like mannequins.

Always interested by new and original adventures, please contact us to share
other projects, other utopias.

Picture book (25-year experience)

TOUR 2009

04 april
Water Fools, Kiev, Ukraine
20 june
Caged Foam, Villeurbanne, France
25 and 26 june
Water Fools, Londres, Royaume Uni
26 june
Colored People , Sotteville les Rouen, France
28 june
La Scène est Marne, Lagny sur Marne, France
09 july
Colored People, Hennebont, France
11 july
Caged Foam, Harcourt, France
13 july
Narcissus Reflects , Monaco, Principauté de Monaco
17 july
La Bonne Voie , Pollenzo (près de Turin), Italie
18 july Colored People, Mulhouse, France
01 august

Water Fools, Copenhague, Danemark

21 and 22 august Water Fools, Chicago, USA
28 and 29 august
Caged Foam , Schwerte/Allemagne