The Blue Bird : a festival philosophical and civic
Dans ce « spectacle total » où théâtralité se conjugue avec féérie, two young artists with mental disabilities embody the main characters of the philosophical tale by Maeterlinck, surrounded by an artistic team solidarity and supported by a special education teacher. The project, both demanding art and activist on the citizen, opens the doors of a theater-like feast to all those, big and small, who are willing to risk meeting and dream.
A philosophical tale about the pursuit of happiness
Aand when that Tyltyl Mytyl, two children lumberjack, watching with envy the rich young celebrate Christmas, Fairy Bérylune sends the bird look blue to discover that happiness was before their eyes. In this piece the river 150 characters and 11 tables, Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian playwright and master of symbolism, questioning our relationship to happiness through an epic mystical and enchanting, inviting us to reconnect with our part of childhood. Here, animals are provided with a core, as plants and objects that populate the fancier the fascinating world of the poet. With, at the heart of the strange and mysterious, a message of hope and tolerance to the universal.
When disability is the difference
CIs the result of a meeting with young people with mental disabilities in boarding Medical professional Fontenay-sous-Bois was born the project The Blue Bird. The workshop in which Maeterlinck's work served as a support to the imagination and work of actor, before be a representation of the end of the year, is the origin of the desire to create a professional show mixed together actors and artists with valid handicap. Meanwhile, the project has followed a path of maturation, while still animated by the same desire to bring the meeting. A large team of professionals, sensitive approach to diversity, s’est mobilisée dans le processus de création : to ten performers on set choreographer joined, Composers, designer, videographer, wardrobe, makeup artist and educator specializing ....
Factory a total spectacle
Athing The Blue Bird, Maeterlinck s’inscrit dans un vaste mouvement de recherche autour du « spectacle total », kind of ideal object stage where different arts attendance (arts, dance, theater, music ...) must respond harmoniously to create a language properly spectacular. The staging of William Caubel takes up this quest which materialized in the early twentieth century with the famous Russian ballet and Swedish, while trying to return to some manufactures theatrical spectacle that assumes without sacrificing the illusion making abyss. Each of the elements involved (sets, costumes, lights, circus props, video projections ...) takes on new meaning by interacting with other, the whole forming a sensory experience stunning, between rock opera and Christmas story.
