The street becomes a place of discovery, a meeting place, somewhere to listen to shows and be entertained by street theatre companies which stage events to make your heart soar… The tarmac of the roads becomes the circus ring, asphalt the scenery, pavements pulse with music, paving stones are stages and squares the theatre: these are the ingredients of this exciting artistic cocktail now in its fourth year, which follows in the footsteps of previous successes.
ACLA stages strolling street theatre for the discerning, for passers by and for everyone with a little time to stop and stare at this festival of living art that is as diverse as it is creative. Our aim is to perform our acts and shows in a space or venue, in towns that welcome us with our eclectic mix of theatre, dance, new-age circus, puppets and music.
Loyal to our principle of making culture available to everyone,
we have once more chosen to make all our events free of charge.
“Deantibulations” is the fruit of a wish to take a long and glorious walk through the old town of Antibes, blessed as it is with warm sunshine and stimulating atmosphere, to sweep the spectator into our midst as we perform, develop and explore our art.
During the three-day festival, living theatre seeps into all the nooks and crannies of the old town, streets are meeting places and squares are transformed into theatres open to the sky. In little lanes and pedestrian byways strollers are taken unawares with moments of emotion and sheer enjoyment.
The courtyard at Paul Arène School serves as dressing room for the artists and is once more open to the public. There are concerts, meetings and exchanges of ideas between the “deantibulators” and their audience in this warm and welcoming place. A snack bar is on hand to sustain the inner man and woman as they drink in the great diversity of performances that unroll before them.
FRIDAY 30 MAY 2008
15.00
The Goldini Family
Marvellous Mambo
20mins
Place Nationale
20.00
Diva
What woman wants
1hour
Boulevard dminsAguillon
21.20
The Goldini Family
Marvellous Mambo
20mins
Boulevard dminsAguillon
22.00
(Reve)²
LminsEssenciel
40mins
Place De Gaulle
SATURDAY 31 MAY
15.00
Tumaraka
Percussions déambulatoires
15mins
Place de Gaulle to Place des Martyrs
15.15
A lminsenvers
Grandchamps et Grollier
50mins
Place des Martyrs
16.10
Tumaraka
Percussions déambulatoires
15mins
Place des Martyrs to Gravette beach
16.25
Antipodes
Ad Libitum
40mins
Plage de la Gravette
17.10
Tumaraka
Percussions déambulatoires
10mins
Gravette beach to Boules area
17.20
Tea in the street
Lombart contre Lombart
1hour
Jeu de Boules
18.20
Tumaraka
Percussions déambulatoires
25mins
Rue Thuret et
Boulevard dminsAguillon
18.45
Barizone Orchestra
Apéro Concert
1h15
Paul Arène School
20.15
La Famille Goldini
Marvellous Mambo
20mins
Paul Arène School
20.45
Bruit qui court
Carmen
1h10
Paul Arène School
22.00
(Reve)²
LminsEssenciel
40mins
Place De Gaulle
SUNDAY 1 JUNE
14.00
Ere
Percussions
45mins
Paul Arène School
14.45
Une de Plus
Trois
35mins
Paul Arène School
15.20
Ere
Percussions déambulatoires
10mins
Avenue de Verdun
15.30
The Goldini Family
Marvellous Mambo
20mins
Triangle de la Porte Marine
15.50
Ere
Percussions déambulatoires
20mins
Boulevard d’Aguillon and Rue Thuret
16.10
A lminsenvers
LminsOignon de Trévignolles
1h20
Place Nationale
17.30
Ere
Percussions déambulatoires
15mins
Rue Clémenceau
17.45
Tea in the street
Public & Cie
1h10
Cathedral square
18.55
Ere
Percussions déambulatoires
15mins
Rue Clémenceau
19.10
Hip Hop
1hour
Place des Martyrs
Companies appearing this year
The Goldini Family
“Marvellous Mambo” – Circus
“He is 63 kilos, 1 metre 67 tall, size 41. She is 63 kilos, 1 metre 78 tall in high heels, dress size not divulged. Together they perform a ton-and-a-half of acrobatics in 12 minutes (150 kilos per minute which is 3 kilos per second), dancing mambo and smiling all the while! Passion, cruelty, precision, complicity, pleasure, fragility, tenderness, falls and slaps all feature in this great performance by the Goldini family.
Using unusual acrobatic techniques, astonishing choreography and with smiles that would launch a thousand ships, the Goldinis treat their audience to wonderful moments of circus, of cabaret and of poetry. The Goldinis are quite simply superb.
Diva
“What women want”
Information to be provided
Dream x 2
“The Essential” –Aerial Circus
Naima is an acrobat, dancer and especially trapeze artist who is prepared to do everything, including flying away and falling, with supreme confidence.
Tiko is an acrobat and most of all a supporter, prepared to do everything and adept at making his partner flutter and flit around.
At the very limits of the impossible, and all with supreme confidence.
Other side
“Grandchamps and Grollier” – a kind of humane comedy
Jean-Louis Grandchamps was used to singing at birthdays and wedding receptions. He suggested to his cousin Théodore Grollier, who loved playing the guitar, that the two of them put together a show.
Encouraged by friends and family, they took to the stage. However, unfortunately the two cousins cannot stop talking about things that have happened in their family.
“The Onion of Trévignolles” – Street Theatre
Three local people from Trévignolles sur Vaillante, the Chalut Brothers and Madame Grollier, active members of the E.A.O. Association, decide to take to the highways and byways of France to promote Trévignolles culture and share their great knowledge of the onion.
Initially, important people are invited to talk about the onion, its symbolism and cultural and economic significance. “We defend Trévignolles culture”, “Save the onion” and “Onions for everyone” are just some of the words that resounded in the streets of the village. They have even written a hymn to the onion! Their grandiose schemes embraced making their village European capital of the onion. “Europe is not only the hope of Trévignolles, the Trévignolles onion is the hope of Europe.” However, during their speeches it became apparent that their great ideas were not in fact all-embracing but often merely commercial and self-centred and that the three villagers were only serving their own ends.
The language is delightful, interspersed with ill-chosen remarks, and as they gossip skeletons fall out of family cupboards. “It is easy to have grand aspirations, but more difficult to appreciate others’ points of view and live in harmony with your neighbours from day-to-day” could be the sub-text of this ingenious play.
Antipodes
“Ad Libitum” – Contemporary dance
A simple but urgent desire to get to the other side of the wall. To know passion and live in a world of fantasy as rumour has it. The moment is ripe for all dreams to come true after waiting in hope. Nil Deus Ex Machina.
We are not born human we become so, and in so doing question ourselves about our links with history and heritage. Are we forever trapped in recurring patterns of behaviour and events? Is history itself immutable and inescapable cyclic actions that continue ad infinitum? The ancients wrote our laws, marked out our territory and dictated who our friends and foes would be. Yet each generation finds itself “at the bottom of the wall” and is impelled to ask itself questions about freedom and responsibility.
Tea in the street
“Lombart versus Lombart”
Fabrice Lombart weighs 90 kilos, is 1 metre 90 tall, 33 years old and is the company manager of Lombart Company. He is passionate about boules, owns a house situated at 9 Impasse Floréal in Lucé near Chartres and married Carole Lombart on 11 June 1994. He has no children. Carole Lombart weighs 56.8 kilos, is 1 metre 63 tall, 32 years old and a schoolteacher in Lucé. She owns a house situated at 9 Impasse Floréal in Lucé near Chartres and married Fabrice Lombart on 11 June 1994. She has no children.
This new production by the Tea in the street Company takes place in a brand new boulodrome. The audience are the spectators at a boules match but rapidly become identified as people in the couple’s life. “Lombart versus Lombart” turns the couple’s relationship into a sporting competition. When daily life becomes impossible with no solution in sight, the natural reaction is to hit out. Is either of the couple a winner in the end?
“Public and Company” – Street Theatre
Having made street theatre professional and part of an institution, it is now time to turn the audience into professionals. The Public and Company office is an advice and mediation service in the cultural sector. The office sends out Patrick with Josiane, who is on a youth employment scheme, and together they improve relations between street theatre companies and their audiences. Their task is to make the audience present into professional spectators. During the one-hour lecture they give, Patrick and Josiane talk about everyday life and how difficult it is for audiences at street theatre productions. They give a lot of good advice on how to become a better member of an audience. Public and Company is a show that talks to audiences about audiences, treating the performer-audience rapport with great humour.
-stay clean with popoglue
-find the most comfortable positions to sit in
-no more sunstroke with the chapodo
-with “come here my sweetheart” you will never lose touch with your children
-become a good aplauder
-no more miserable days in the rain with the special-street-special-raincoat
-know how to find a good seat
-for richer for poorer just a member of the audience
Barizone Comedia Orchestra
Concert
The Barizone Comedia Orchestra put everyone in festive mood with their humorous songs about life in all its variety and diverse influences such as French pop, waltz, java, rock, ska-reggae and eastern European.
In 2 or 3-time, Don Quixote is a timeless hero and regular whirlwind and just one of their many characters:
-Gino, hairdresser for 75 years and inevitably psychologist,
-Edouard and Lucette, accountant lovers,
-Elisabeth, a resourceful intellectual researching Macbeth,
-“Daddy’s boy” rastafarian rebel with attitude, and many others from different worlds..
Noise that runs
Carmen – Comic Opera
The story is simple. Don José is a little Brigardier with ambitions for a military career to please his mother. His destiny is to be dramatically changed. He meets Carmen. Free as a bird, the wild and beautiful gypsy woman throws him a smouldering look and he is forever bewitched by her. Torn between his love and his honour as a soldier, Don José’s actions can never be undone as he slavishly follows the cigarette factory worker. But love is a capricious creature, as Carmen knows all too well. She needs no jealousy to love wholeheartedly; it is life in all its glorious variety that matters to her. As Don José has forsaken everything, he does not want to lose all that remains to him which is his love, Carmen. However, it is not this man who would be matador that will cast a shadow on her happiness.
The most famous opera in the world given a new treatment by four actors with a supreme sense of comedy. In this wacky adaptation that is nevertheless tragic, of Carmen by Bizet, the action is centred around the relic of a petticoat that belonged to the troubled and fascinating Carmencita. The women fight to wear it and the men long to possess it.
On a dance floor transformed into an infernal spiral the four champions of the burlesque try to avoid the worst as they pay homage to this major work. The audience is treated to the spectacle of a badly-dressed boy from the dance floor next to the two rival hysterical actresses, a weak and naïve Don José competing with Escamillo and a lecherous, alcoholic matador as never seen before this day. An explosive mix that leaves no one unmoved…
One More
Three – Human Puppets
Two actors in the guise of puppets appear on stage, their costumes not revealing a glimpse of flesh. A little puppet is born before our eyes. His first movements are uncoordinated and he finds it difficult to stay upright; the new-born puppet is learning the hard rules of gravity.
The second human puppet comes on stage, walking on stilts and wearing a breastplate strangely similar to the articulated wooden figures made famous by a furniture polish brand. Like a puppeteer, the giant takes the little one under his wing to guide him in his first steps, and even finds him a friend to play with who the audience chooses. But very swiftly, the child wants to stand on his own two feet, turning as a son might do on an over-protective father.
It is through his destruction that the child begins his own existence.
Tumaraka
Deambulatory Percussion
Maraka? An ethnic group from West Africa.
Maracatu? A rhythm of North east Brazil.
It is music from these two corners of the world that inspires the Tumaraka percussionists.
Their catchy festival rhythm rapidly puts their audience in relaxed party mood a little on the wild side!
Ere
Deambulatory Percussion
Information to be provided
As in the event last year, a hip hop stage is to be set up in Place des Martyrs and a dance group led by Olivia Calloix will carry out a battle
For all information
Contact: Olivier Riouffe, President of ACLA
Tel: 06 03 60 32 84
Email : olivier.riouffe@free.fr
