Shows in Nyon and Yverdon
When the city turns into a huge theater decor
At the Far ° and in the Castrum, several companies invest the streets, in proposals specially designed in urban space.
The purpose of the Romand Collective Common Denominators? Build the highest tower in the world with kapla, these small wooden planks that are stacked to form structures … until the fall.
Julie folly
- The Far ° festival in Nyon transforms the urban space into a unique artistic scene.
- Artists build a kapla tower, symbolizing contemporary challenges.
- The horde in the pavers mixes dance and acrobatics in the streets.
- Art in situ redefines the boundaries between theater and daily life.
The city as immense playground. Forgotten, the plateau and its four walls, facing the stands. At far°in Nyon, and at Castle In Yverdon, several companies shape the urban fabric. These shows, said in situ, are not formats that can be played everywhere with two or three accessories, street theater, but objects designed especially for and in a specific space. From one place to another, it is therefore necessary to rethink the play to register it each time on a new ephemeral scene. We then speak of re-creation, a work in perpetual movement!
Thursday evening, the Roman collective common denominators invested the court of goods in far°Nyonnais festival of living arts. Their design? Build the highest tower in the world with kapla, these small wooden plates that are stacked to form structures … until the fall. “Sisyphus (s) proliferation” is played each evening (until Saturday) on another land, delivered to the constraints of the place: the roughness of the ground, the wind.
On the bitumen, the four artists assemble the pieces to ensure the foundations of their building. Little by little, the public gathers around the Tour in the making. How far will they manage to tu heights? Suspense. We retain our breath. Like Sisyphe, we already know that the tower will collapse. Remember: this hero of Greek mythology is condemned to push his rock towards the top of a mountain before it tumbles. And he starts his work again, tirelessly. But, wrote Camus, “you have to imagine happy Sisyphe”.
On the bitumen, the four artists of the Romand Collective common denominators assemble the pieces to ensure the foundations of their building.
Julie folly
It is therefore as happy heroes of a show that the four artists build dedicated towers to collapse. Like the world in which we live, threatened by climatic disruption and yet locked in capitalism that enjoins to target ever higher, always larger. The proposition, metaphorical, poetic, beautiful by its simplicity, values collaboration and mutual aid. In the end, their turn will probably not be the highest in the world. Never mind. It is the fruit of collective and unifying work.
Invisible presence at Nyon station
Still at the far °, the urban space will turn into an evanescent place with “darkened: Nyon station appearance”, recreated in situ by the Brazilian Ametonyo Silva and the French Eduardo Joly, Wednesday and Thursday. In Brazilian, haunting evokes a mysterious presence. This invisible essence will haunt the quays of the station, during a choreographic whimsical phantasmagoria dressed in scraps of memories, sensations and sounds.
In a more energetic proposal, the Franco-Swiss collective The horde in the cobblestones Recreated in Nyon its “impact of a race” in the streets of the city. Between contemporary dance, circus and urban climbing, the five artists, accompanied by a Sprinter musician, explore the streets, places, welcoming the inhabitants and inhabitants during their acrobatic walk, recalling the joys of childhood, Friday and Saturday. The collective will also present, Wednesday, “Run Them All” its brand new creation imagined in residence within the L’Exploratory system, in Castrum. This night proposal, articulated around the vagaries of adolescence, will be created this Saturday evening without the Yverdonnais streets.
We will also point out, in the castrum, the new urban epic of the immersive circus sketches “How Much We Carry”, until Sunday. Using a pole, the duo formed by Débora Fransolin and Marin Garnier will move to the city of Yverdon, playing with urban furniture to shape a show (in work stage) which questions the English term carry (meaning both carry and take care). And we, what can we carry physically and internally?
Theater, life, the city
This in situ art is nothing new. Released from the shackles of the scene, the approach is part of the wake of movements such as Fluxus, which inscribes the theater in life. Art then overflows in the streets, industrial zones, natural areas occupied by humans. In French -speaking Switzerland, many artists have surveyed cities, wasteland and fields to tell the story of the space that surrounds us: Side sensation, Stefan Kaegi, Massimo Furlan or the Collectif 300. In this same momentum, at the Far ° and in the castrum, the whole city is a theater. And his artists invite us to anchor in reality by activating the imagination.
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