It all begins with a sentence: "3,600 times an hour, the second whispers: remember!" (Charles Baudelaire - "The Clock" - Les Fleurs du Mal).
It resonates with our relationship to time, that of the flame, that of the seasons, the time of contemplation, of the present moment.
The impermanence of things makes us look up and observe the clouds. Let us draw inspiration from their free flight. Let us be carefree and impertinent.
À vau-l'eau plays with appearances and disappearances, shadows and sudden appearances. It is a sensory and pictorial proposition composed of rickety machinery bathed in the softness and glow of our flames, an invitation to experience the lightness of chance for 3,600 seconds... to question scales, that of duration, that of our flames.
Show begins at dusk
500 people, one performance per evening, in a public space
Artistic direction and set design: Nadine Guinefoleau
Original concept: Compagnie Carabosse
Cast: Nadine Guinefoleau (visual artist), Fabrice Gilbert (stage manager/stagehand), 4 performers/stagehands (currently being cast), Björt Rúnars (musician), Chloé Moreau (artistic collaborator)
Outside perspective: currently being cast
Builders: Bruno Gastao, Fabrice Gilbert, Sébastien Giraud-Vidault, Laurent Patard, Véronique Rotureau, Amina Shérif
Sound design: Björt Rúnars & izOReL
Costume design: currently being cast...