Duration
+/- 1h, all audiences
Capacity
+/- 400 spectators
Stage area
Performance for outdoor spaces, fixed stage
Performing time
End of day / Night
Contact
Cécile Durot
Production Manager
+33 (06) 83 85 21 89
bistaki.cecile@gmail.com
Note of intent
The G. Bistaki’s strength lies in the art of creating fictions, fantastic worlds outside any rational space-time.
For this new creation (spring 2024), the research revolves around the transitional and highly symbolic object that is the white sheet.
For this new creation (spring 2024), the research revolves around the transitional and highly symbolic object that is the white sheet.
At the same time an object with multiple uses and qualities, the white sheet covers strong symbolism: it dresses a ghost, is the fabric that shelters our dreams, protects neglected objects and sometimes our memory. The sheet will be the vector of passage from the concrete to the abstract, thanks to transformations of spaces scenographed at sight. Worlds that will be brought together in a strange, disturbing or fantastic way…
Beyond the object, the guidelines forged during our first year of research revealed the need to mix two universes: a real one with “normal” characters (neighbours, workers, inhabitants…), with usual actions, favourable to the change of scenographic decorum with concrete acts; another dreamlike one, closer to our madness and dreams in which the silhouettes come out of a dream world. another dreamlike one, closer to our madness and our dreams, in which the silhouettes emerge from a collective imagination (bourgeois with big wigs, elusive spirits inspired by Japanese yokai, …). The use of the concept of ghost in the broadest sense of the term will offer a contrasting and political reading of these visible and invisible worlds, in relation to current events and the march of humanity. It is the friction of these two parallel worlds, their cohabitation, their resistance, their contamination that we want to question and put into perspective.
Using bodies and everyday objects in space and movement, G. Bistaki offers a creation that intertwines reality and fantasy, showing those who are no longer seen, those who no longer see.
They are the ghosts of our cities, housekeepers, street sweepers, restaurant dishwashers… Those whom anonymity has made invisible to our society. Others, busy and preoccupied, pass by without noticing that between these worlds there is a tension as concrete as it is absurd, a taut thread on which the costumes of everyday life are stretched.
Using an object as common as a white sheet, distorting bodies and stage space in an interweaving of poetic or cruelly real scenes, Tancarville plays out a cinematically written social satire, where the absurd leads to humour. Confronted with our own blinkers, we witness the friction of two worlds that coexist, attract and resist each other: the visible and the invisible, the forgotten and the present, the real and the ghostly. In this cohabitation lie our realities woven from fears, dreams, fantasies… and our weaknesses in the face of a world that too often erases what we no longer see.
Cast
Collective creation by and with
Florent Bergal, Sylvain Cousin, Jive Faury, François Juliot
Stage management
Rémi Bernard
Artistic and technical collaborations
In process
Production and distribution
Cécile Durot
Administration
Véronique Dubarry
Production and partners
Production
Le G. Bistaki
Coproductions
La Maison des Jonglages, scène conventionnée jonglage(s) – La Courneuve • Circuswekplaats Dommelhof – BE • Chalon dans la Rue – Chalon-sur-Saône • La Grainerie – Balma • Festival Bildstörung, Ville de Detmold – DE • Festival Kalealdia, Ville de Bilbao – ES • La Verrerie, pôle national cirque Occitanie – Alès * • Le Cratère, scène nationale d’Alès * • Furies / Le Palc – Châlons-en-Champagne *
* in process
Residencies
L’Ile, Vieillevigne • Konvent, Cal Rosal – ES • Le Rudeboy Crew, Théâtre d’Olt – Lozère • Hangar 21, Detmold – DE • Teatro Harrobia, Bilbao – ES • Théâtre de Vaour • La Petite Pierre, Jegun
We are currently looking for partners to support this project.
Let’s get in touch to talk about it if you are interested.
Le G. Bistaki is subsidised by the City of Toulouse.
