Les oxymorons d'eau
The future waterborne creation by the group ilotopie, in 2008

Type
- grand aquatic spectacle
- night time performance
- general public
- with 19 artists and technicians
Capacity : Several thousand spectators
Running time : 45 minutes
Playing area : river, canal, lake, sea, port
- 80m x 80m minimum
- maximum current 2km/hour
- minimum water depth: 0,80m
- embankments for the spectators
Artistic and technical location check

Water fools
Man, water and fire

In this show, water acts to strengthen the fragile human scale. At the same time stage and transfer, this phantasmagorical source confirms the sensitive and poetical dimension of the actors, industrious and floating people going about one's business.

Human's extrovert part, the firework refers to his greatness constantly conquered and fallen...

- location: river, canal, pond, port with a stretch of water at least 50m/ 40m.
- maximum current: 2km/h
- all kind of public
- form: frontal and nocturnal show with theatre, sculpture and choreagraphy
- lenghth: 1 hour
- audience: 1500 spectators depending on the location
- set-in, reherseal: 2 days
- set-out: 1/2 day
- a pre-date for artistic and technical location check is indispensable

Narcissus Reflects
A show for still water

The original Narcissus, sterile, heirless, inaccessible to himself, now succeds in multi-plying and becoming virtual: the story of his evolution goes hand in hand with the advent of an imperialism of the image.
Beings atomised in the joy of their selves, echoes of influences, clones of transparency, actor-imago, man-logo, icons of fleh, here lie all manner of strange poetic and contempory beast, living funny or fascinating reflections.

- Artistic and technical location check

Islands collector

takes place by day or by night for spectators making one's way on the banks.

- 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 publc 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)

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