COLOR WHEELS - Creation 2018
1 DJ / 10 wheels / 10 000 LEDs...
COLOR WHEELS is an urban and participative choreographic performance, combined with a
monumental light installation. A unique collective experience, sensory and emotional.
To the sound of electronic music mixed live by the on-board DJ, a procession of nine wheels from 2
to 7m tall, illuminated by thousands of LEDs, enters the heart of the city.
Skillfully handled by the dancers, the wheels spin and intertwine, dodge and swirl. Each wheel generates its own energy and transforms itself into an electronic island, drawing the audience into a hypnotic current, a psychedelic ballet with pyrotechnic effects.
The frantic parade ends with the final assembly of the multicoloured wheels in a giant kaleidoscope that rises towards the sky like a comet on its way out... A monumental, surreal and magical light installation! COLOR WHEELS is a plastic and choreographic performance that can be adapted to all types of spaces and events (Street Festivals, Electro Music Festivals, Light Festivals, public inaugurations, private events...), in wandering on a defined route and/or in play on a fixed place. Generally designed to be played outdoors, it can be adapted indoors, provided that it is large enough (Exhibition parks, industrial wasteland, etc.).
SPECIAL EFFECTS :
Dioxide blasts, ruby hand fires, confetti explosions, light programming.
MUSIC :
Live mixed electronic music
FRÉQUENCY :
1 night performance per day. Ideally starts at dusk.
DURATION :
1:30 to 2:00, depending on the route chosen
AUDIENCE :
1000 > 15.000
TEAM :
20 artists (DJ, dancers) and technicians (sound, lights, pyrotechnics)
A COMPLICITY WITH VOLUNTEERS :
Local volunteers are invited to join the Compagnie Off's professional team: groups that have already been formed (e.g. a troupe of amateur dancers) or motivated individuals who are tempted by this crazy adventure with us.
Workshops :
- 12 to 20 volunteers in good physical condition, with a strong taste for dance.
- Preparation: 2 x 2 hours (D-2 / D-1) + rehearsals (D) + costume fittings. The project was awarded the Art Honoria bursary 2018 - Burning Man Festival.
BEAR, BANQUISE ADRIFT ICE FLOES
Bear, banquise adrift ice floes, slowly gliding through a continuous stream of icy vapours...
The Ice Diva exhales her lyrical tunes in the stormy Bear clings to her ice cap. Sedna, goddess of the Inuit people, swings her compass and points the way... In a wind of glitter, the Angel soothes Bear in her fury and despair.... The turbulent, carefree Marquesas flutter about the ice floes like frosted butterflies. The anger of the Inuit explodes in hard-hitting fragments!
Pole to Pole A transhumance...
La transhumance... Like a drifting ice floe, a baroque caravan, a glacial fresco of an overheated world, takes us on the imaginary journey of a polar bear in perdition, a tribe of overexcited Inuits, a decadent nobility in love with good things, men and animals adapting and adopting each other, beings and territories in constant mutation. An improbable attempt to project yourself from one pole to the other. Don't be afraid of the cold! Let us take you to the other side of the mirror!
SPECIAL EFFECTS :
Dioxide jets, dry ice, smoke, confetti explosions...
MUSIC :
Live lyrical vocals and recorded soundtrack: classical and contemporary music.
FREQUENCY :
1 performance a day, at night or at dusk.
DURATION :
1h to 1h30, depending on the chosen route.
AUDIENCE :
1,000 to 10,000 people.
TEAM :
18 artists and technicians.
As with all street performances, local amateurs can be integrated into the Compagnie OFF's professional team.
The Giraffes
DESCRIPTION :
A herd of 7 red giraffes moves nonchalantly through the landscape. Swaying their flexible necks, their long silhouettes glide elegantly, forming a magenta ballet led by a splendid Diva who vocalizes in turn and gathers around her, in this lyrical taming, the giraffes who adore her. On the floor, the ring boys try to excite the senses, noses and taste buds of these great ladies as much as those of the audience. In a burst of clownish and vaudevillian play, the clique goes into a radiant turmoil in the heart of the crowd..
CONCEPT "LES GIRAFES" is a street show in the form of a monumental ambulatory, which mixes lyrical song, circus burlesque and giant puppets. The scenario evolves with each performance depending on the place, the audience and the time of the performance. In order to best adapt the show to the context, a scouting can be done beforehand to define the route and the stops where to place certain scenes.
This show for all audiences can be performed both during the day and at night, even if it becomes more enchanting at nightfall, in particular through the use of numerous special effects and portable lights.
ELEMENTS :
7 monumental magenta red Giraffes skilfully animated by 14 stilt walkers
The Diva, a lyrical soprano on a mobile float with sound.
A rolling see-saw allowing character interactions (throwing glitter on the audience, taming the Giraffes with fire circles, etc).
A clique of Ring Boys.
A small chariot transporting the fireworks.
SPECIAL EFFECTS :
Explosions of fire, confetti and banknotes, smoke, lights, fire hoops, dry ice.
MUSIC :
Live lyrical singing, original compositions and recorded soundtrack: waltzes, operetta extracts, circus, music...
FREQUENCY :
One hour performance, day or night
AUDIENCE :
1 000 > 10 000 people
TEAM :
26 professional artists and technicians.
As with all street performances, local amateurs can be integrated into the Compagnie OFF's professional team. Local amateurs, runway boys for the occasion, can be integrated into the company's team.
The Big (1990)
Sensitive local intervention
Les Gros (n, m): 12 comic strip characters, halfway between an orange and a pumpkin, a sumo wrestler and a Michelin man, "LES GROS", played by 12 "at-risk" actors, stroll through the streets with smiles on their faces. By turns mischievous and voluptuous, they are the messengers of love. Everything about them exudes roundness, festivity and joviality. They take over the city, reviving a fountain, skipping across the roof of a building or gliding downstream. At the end of their run, like fading toys returning to the realms of the imaginary, they expel the air from their bodies until the next time and fade away with a final whistle...
The fantastic parade (1991)
Equine and lyrical procession
in collaboration with the Troupe équestre Caracole
A procession sets off to discover the four elements: Water, air, earth and fire. Personified by four riders and their mounts, each element emerges from an unusual place. From the top of his pedestal, the angel, virgin and naked, keeps watch. On the ground, the devils, perverse and fleeting, disrupt the tableau. A powerful singer on her wrought-iron chariot, surrounded by a host of scruffy, buffoonish altar boys, orchestrates this genesis. A wandering, mischievous and lyrical opera that culminates in the audience's baptism by fire.
The seven deadly sins (1992)
Procession of Chars
At a time when street performance was all the rage, Compagnie Off used symbols of the fields to revisit the cities. Barrels, vats and barrels mounted on plough wheels form the framework of their "procession". Led by some twenty men covered in clay and animated by seven young girls, the seven capital offences, the convoy flows with force through the arteries of the city, imposing and timeless. One dips generously into a bath of custard, the other sows golden louis, the third erotically covets a python, the fourth brandishes her whip, the fifth her feathers, the penultimate pulls out her jealous claws, and the last, august, reigns over the parade, she's a diva. A performance set against a backdrop of flames, irreverence and opera, which will take them to the underworld..
Cinema kisses (1995)
Travelling lovers
On a huge reel of film, straight from the roll, two actors touch, embrace and inflame each other. Take after take, they evoke the greatest love scenes of black and white cinema. For each scene, the two actors prepare their finale: the most dazzling kiss, feverish and superb. The sequence fades into an intense mist. Towards the sky, propelled by fireworks, the still-burning reels of the film: "Les Baisers du Cinéma". The film crew is assisted by the "Sepia family": baroque and timeless, these enlightened clones of "modern times" are the laboratory technicians of the production. Live, they pursue their obsessive quest: the search for colour. Swarms of polychromatic pigments flood these cinema freaks. The kiss wins: the war between colour and black and white will never happen.
The Coloured Wheels (1996)
The Wheels of Color crossed the five deserts of five continents. In the effort, men have become men of clay, accumulating sweat and dust at each stage of their journey. Skilfully manoeuvred, the wheels move and twirl, impetuous in the heart of the crowd. Around these "wings" of emancipation, technocrats flutter with suitcases billowing colored smoke. A controlled rush of technostructures: bustling life, bursting the frame, torrid release over the city in an electrifying technoparade of communicative jubilation. Wheels of color converge on a central point, creating an astonishing machinery of rainbow colors. A canvas painted in the night, a tear, a cry...