How can the encounter with the other be told? In 2008, six authors received a commission to immerse themselves in the Usine, a street arts creation workshop near Toulouse. From their dive into the universe of the urban show, their contacts with the venue's artists, technicians, users and public, six texts, six curious, amused, sometimes cynical, often dumbfounded viewpoints emerged. Six experiences that the members of the GdRA grasped, mixing them with the texts of the ethnographer Bronislaw Malinowski, who left Europe to observe the Trobiand Islanders of New Guinea in 1911. The result is a lecture-show led by an actor-storyteller and a dancer-acrobat. Imagining new Fridays and new Robinsons, they ask the question of how those that we come across are viewed, a view that changes depending on where the encounter takes place and the inner state of the protagonists. What body posture do we have? What feelings are awakened in us? Are we ready to share? What desire for knowledge and discovery do we really show? With images, projected words, danced acrobatics and moments of the story, the members of the GdRA cast their artists' viewpoint on our difficult but always possible encounters. JFP
Distribution
conceived and performed by le GdRA
written, directed and music by Christophe Rulhes
choregraphy Julien Cassier
actor Sébastien Barrier
light David Löchen
costumes designer Céline Sathal
based on the texts of Annie Agopian, Stéphanie Benson, Philippe Berthaut, Hélène Duffau, Didier Goupil, Emmanuelle Urien
Production
production le GdRA, à l'initiative de la Boutique d'Écriture du Grand Toulouse et de l'Usine, lieu conventionné pour les arts de la rue à Tournefeuille