- 2015
- France
The company’s artists are united by a shared desire to unite their respective creative languages.
The company was formed after its founders met on the Victor project and decided to work together on new creations combining elements of visual, audio and corporeal expression. They considered the vast array of options available to them: physical theatre, visual performance, contemporary mime, clowning and the myriad possibilities offered by combining corporeal expression with other creative idioms. For Arnaud Préchac, one of the company’s artistic partners, this cross-pollination of artistic languages is one of the fundamental pillars of their work, bringing together different sensory dialects on the same stage and using these contrasting viewpoints to push the imagination into new places.
The company’s second pillar is its commitment to forming a close bond with young audiences, and with audiences in general. They firmly believe that a show for children should also appeal to adults, giving them the opportunity and the right to lose themselves in an alternative universe, drawn in by the drama and narrative of the show. Because, deep down, we’re all children waiting to be inspired.
Education and outreach with young people is a priority which all members of the company are committed to pursuing further. They regularly organise workshops for children in parallel with performances of their shows.
In terms of outreach and education for audiences in challenging circumstances, the company has been involved with various workshops and creative projects as part of the Wake Up Café programme, working with inmates from the prisons of Nanterre, Meaux and Réau (theatre, corporeal expression and self-image, adaptation of a novel in shadow theatre for a performance at the Philharmonie, mask theatre and burlesque etc.). They even produced a puppet adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 with inmates of Nanterre Prison (Vis à Vis Theatre Festival, Paris Villette).
