The Amoral Fountain (1994)
Trial of the fabulist by his stylised animals
Hauts de Seine Park (ADIAM 92)
Trial of the fabulist by his stylised animals: eleven characters play eleven animals: first they play together to annoy their author, then they isolate themselves to fabulate in their corner. The fish imagines himself a mermaid, the owl confesses, the frog rationalises, the stag half-points, the wolf sanguinises, the crow hangs himself, the hare pianos, the dove plays the harp, the fox spies, the lion feels wild and the city rat flees. La Fontaine, like Aesop, moralizes to the hilt. His sentence is near. The animals rebel and accuse him wholesale. Their "master" will kill them. Is this the victory of morality over nature? Not so sure...
Rabelais Marco Ferreri (1994)
In collaboration with Marco Ferreri, for the filming of " Faictz ce que vouldras »/Do whatever you want Tribute to the 500th anniversary of the birth of Rabelais, 3000 guests, Abbaye de Seuilly (37).
Blue Helmets (1995)
30-minute intermission (repeated every hour). The public is invited to don the uniform and blue helmet for a final UN briefing before departing for the field of operations.
Loches Donjon (1996)
"Red-carpet vertical inauguration of the renovated Donjon de Loches ((XIth century castle in Touraine, France).
Presentation of the keys to the President of the Département.
Quay of the indians (1996)
Collaboration with Compagnie Délice Dada
Forty brightly colored horses ridden by as many Indian riders, an 18-meter feather, eight squaw singers perched on a giant totem pole. An early-morning attack on four trains carrying festival-goers!
Tours train station (1999)
100th anniversary of Tours station (architect: Victor Laloux) The hands of the huge clock set off a century-long countdown in 24 hours.
The "grande dame" saw its platforms clad in "sncf" blue, artists hovering in its catenary and trains in grand pomp, pouring out a stream of cantatrices.
Jour de Loire Festival (2002)
Concept and realization of events on the Loire, as part of its inclusion in UNESCO's World Heritage List.
Indre et Loire General Council. Landscape installations and "land act" - UNESCO world heritage listing for the river.
Runway desert (2006)
A monumental urban creation that evolves over time, Désert de Piste - invades an urban space with a conjunction of phenomena between earth and beyond: a desert, a windswept surface, a pumping station with sprawling pipelines, a nomadic camp, immobil'homes strangely inhabited by characters in survival, waiting, in exile, uprooted. Doom? Return to normality? Mutations? A dialogue is woven with the spectator, who is invited to turn his neighbourhood, his street, into an extra-daily experience. "In Villeurbanne (...) Désert de Piste creates and redraws in urban poetry these obsessions with desert and immensity" Libération
El Greco (2014)
Live performance in 4 acts about El Greco El Greco and his work" to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of El Greco, the founding painter of the 16th-century Spanish School. . 2014 - TOLEDE INTRAMUROS – SPAIN
Revoluciones (2014)
A Mexican saga: revolutions, Aztec treasures and wild chases against a backdrop of celestial apparitions... Steeped in its South American expeditions, particularly to Mexico in spring 2013, Compagnie Off secretes a very Latin distillate in the form of a tragi-comic wandering, inhabited by oozing, colorful characters with brusque gestures and over-the-top theatricality.
On air (2017)
Compagnie Off, invited by Zéphyr, has imagined a vertiginous program combining vertical performances, dance, music and artistic impromptus.
Antoine Le Ménestrel was offered the world's first magnetic ascent
magnetic ascent of a wind turbine. The poet of height opened the way to the air by climbing the giant windmill with magnets. A breathtaking performance.
This was followed by a series of wacky descents and ascents
(surfboard, grand piano, angels...), in a theatrical setting that the wind turbine a memorable baptism, to being lifted more than 2 meters into the air by the famous Fred Tousc (street and stage comedian), while the kites of wind artist Michel Gressier performed their majestic dance.
L'ÉQUIPE
Philippe Freslon - Artistic Director
Caroline Forestier - Creative Assistant and Production Manager : c.forestier@compagnieoff.org
Carole Bonetti - Administrator : contact@compagnieoff.org
Diane Sagard - Distribution Manager : d.sagard@compagnieoff.org
Anne-Gaël Le Floch - Accountant
20 Rue des Grands Mortiers,
37700 Saint-Pierre-des-Corps
The Compagnie Off is a non-profit association (law 1901)
Board members:
Matthieu Thouvenin, President
François Vignale, Treasurer
Emmanuel Lecerf, Secretary
Compagnie Off is supported by the City of Tours, the Centre-Val de Loire Region, FONPEPS and ADAMI (France). OURS, banquise à la dérive/ Bear,banquise adrift ice floes receives creative support from Ateliers Frappaz. National Center of street performing arts in public spaces, Villeurbanne.