A mysterious place, black and white, filled with mischievous fireflies. Welded like the five foot fingers a band of buddies turns up. All different, they are of this blessed age when one is not afraid of differences. Their affinities stem from the game, the game calls the tune, in all the ways that enable to discover one another. Scare me! Catch me if you can! Move over it s my turn! Try it if you dare!» In a tender and innocent hullabaloo, everyone looks for, finds, catches, amazes, squabbles, laughs with the others. But who owns the shadow of this enormous hand which seems to decide for them like adults decide for the child? An evil monster, a caring parent, a facetious friend? At the jonction of cultural and linguistic identities, we are all used to creating towards the younger audience. TROBADES invite to discover a playful and poetic world cadenced by dance, acrobatics, theatre and music and inhabited by 5 actors-dancers-funambulists, forged to a powerful body theatricality. Our diversity has led us to find a common artistic material, a unifying theme : complicity, the main subject of the piece. - Complicity to create and share fantastic atmospheres proper to our personalities; - Complicity to overcome communication problems and to enter in a simple language; - Complicity to adjust our differences and to open common areas; - Complicity to play, between individual freedom and curiosity of the other. We want to offer to young audiences in our respective countries a "mesclade" (mix) of forms and means of expression - contemporary dance, circus, music, singing, shadow theater - a concert of our languages, foreign and yet so close! We want to make with TROBADES a poetic journey through all our peculiarities, guided by the game, at the mercy of encounters and discoveries of all kinds where the only necessary muscle is Imagination! Audience All audiences - children over 4 Distribution Choreography: Mariantònia Oliver Performance: Aina Pascual Silva Gràcia Moragues Cantallops Véronique Valéry Mateu Canyelles Sureda Gérard Sanchez Music: Jérôme Dru Costumes: Sûan Czepczynski Lights: Manu Martínez (Baléares) - Jérôme Dru (France) Production Assistants: Rafel Mir (Baléares) - Véronique Valéry (France) Executive Production: Mariantònia Oliver Administrative Production: La Rampe-Tio
Co-Producers TROBADES is a coproduction of : * The Majorcan Cia Mariantònia Oliver (MAO), specialized in contemporary dance, directed by Mariantònia Oliver, project choreographer; * The company LA RAMPE T.I.O. (Théâtre Inter-régional Occitan), from Languedoc (France), specialized in theatrical creations for all and young audiences, defending an Occitan living culture. History During the summer of 2013, in Montpellier, at the initiative of the Euro-regional professional platform Scena Centro, an artistic laboratory designed as a free space for research has provided the opportunity for 6 artists, with diverse backgrounds and disciplines, to compare their techniques, knowledge and creative force in the field of young audiences. This laboratory was under the direction of Mariantònia Oliver, Majorcan choreographer. Discoveries, exchanges, blends of cultural, artistic and linguistic identities, aroused the desire to create together and drew out the promise of a performance. The success achieved at the end of the laboratory, in septembre 2013 at theatre La Vista in Montpellier, sealed the common fate of these six artists. TROBADES project was born : a performance for young audience whose multidisciplinary art form would defy borders and languages. TROBADES resonate in the project languages : it means «meetings» in Catalan, «finds» in Occitan. Artistic Residency A first draft or at least trails for the creation of the show have been tested and developed in the laboratory during the summer of 2013. A second phase of work was carried out during the summer and fall of 2014. TROBADES team settled in for an artistic residency in Maria de la Salut (Majorca) from September 24 to October 20, 2014. During this residency some work steps were presented to the population and many discussions took place TROBADES has been first performed on October 10, 2014 in Alcùdia s auditorium (Majorca). Show s Distribution 2 performances took place in la Fira de Villafranca 2014 (International Festival for Young Audience Living Shows - Majorca) on Novembre 18, 2014 and 6 performances in Theatre la Vista in Montpellier, in November, from 12 to 16, 2014. TROBADES is available from November 2014. Acknowledgements Scena Centro for initiating the projet. The Ajuntament de Maria de la Salut (Majorca) for receiving the artistic residency. The Auditorium d Alcúdia (Majorca) for receiving the technical residency and the première. Jaume Manresa for his watchful eye.
Companies Cia Mariantònia Oliver The company was born in 1989 with a show called Ocho. With Marco Raso, a coprodution between Barcelona, London and Madrid the company toured in theatres and festivals in Spain, Europa and America. In 2000 the company settled in Majorca and began a work marked with a strong social commitment, managing an european festival in rural areas and organising educational projects. The company has since created many shows with an obvious intention to bring dance to a large audience. Among this productions, La Contínua (2001), Poetes, Mapes, La paraula i els peus nus (2008) played in numerous theatres, fairs and national and international festivals. For young audience : Bobot (2000), Rasss, Na llauneta recicla and Petita Lula (2008). Recent shows : nou (2010) for all audiences, now on tour. Las Muchas (2011), for all audiences, created with 11 women from 70 to 82 years-old, living in Maria de la Salut (Majorca). Malmenats (2014) is the last show produced by the company. The company is also a member of the euro-regional project Scena Centro. La Rampe TIO Born in 1974, La Rampe TIO is profesional company who placed Occitan culture at the heart of its artistic approach. On these basis, La Rampe TIO developed a strong, original and diversified way of creation, for a curious and passionate audience and for a population wishing to rediscover emotions brought out by a millenary language and culture. With this cultural position La Rampe TIO brings to its audience a singular perspective. Heritage and contemporary creation are the lines of the company s action to make rediscover the main theatre works in Occitan and make known a contemporary Occitan playwriting. With a policy of openness to writers, creators, directors, the company explore unexpected ways for Occitan creation. Public successes and a remarkable distribution for an independant company (120 to 130 performances each year) confirm the pertinence of the process. With Claude Alranq, director, writer, actor and former headteacher in Département des Arts of Nice-Sophia Antipolis University, the company created in 1999 the profesional degree Acteurs Sud. It s been the first profesional degree created in France in the field of the southern cultures. This experience highlights the company s interest for training projects, regularly developed with students, actors and creators.
Actors experiences Mariantònia Oliver Choreographer et dancer in the contemporary balearian space, Mariantònia Oliver heads her dance company (MAO, Cie Mariantònia Oliver) since 1989. After a contemporary dance training in Barcelona Theatre Institute, she created a dozen shows for young and all ages audiences, usually reflecting international news topics. Her shows toured in France, the Netherlands, United States, England, Venezuela, Egypt After being a dance teacher in Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao and Madrid she settled in Majorca in 2000. She s currently directing an educational project of creation and distribution through the association La Impossible. During the same time, she keeps on practising as a teacher (Balears High School for Scenic Arts - Palma de Majorca) as a choregrapher and as a dancer. Fancy, humour, poetry and sensitivity in MAO s performances have passed over the Pyrenees and have won the heart of audiences in many festivals in France (Transes Cévenoles 2009, Lo Festenal euro-régional market for Living Arts 2011, festival OFF in Avignon 2012). Curious of all ages making a whole life, her last creation, Las Muchas (dance, video 2012), explores delicateness of the bodies. Her choreographic work is based upon the life of eleven 70 to 82 years-old women living, like her, in Maria de la Salut (Majorca), and who take part in this upsetting project. In 2012, the company Mariantònia Oliver joined the euro-regional project Scena Centro and presented its show for young audience Petita Lula (dance, from 3 years-old) in Avignon s Festival Off. She has directed the first «laboratory» of creation Scena Centro in August and September 2013. Aina Pascual Silva She has created vertical dance and circus shows. She is a dancer for the companies Color Dansa, Iker Gómez, Bebeto Cidra et Sacude. Currently, she dances with Cia Mariantònia Oliver, la Cia LasLoLas and into the poetry and dance show Imitació del foc (imitation of the fire) that she directed as a choreographer. As a teacher, she worked in different schools in Barcelona and in Majorca with children and adults. She also had collaborations with Cia Mariantònia Oliver in many educational projets. Gràcia Moragues Cantallops Circus artist specialized in acrobatics and hats juggling, Gràcia has been trained in schools such as Rogelio River in Barcelone or Codarts Circus Arts in Rotterdam. With Mateu Canyelles she s created the Circus Association Manipulats for the creation of their own shows. Mateu Canyelles Sureda Circus artist specialized in acrobatics and hats juggling. He s been trained in Lecoq School in Barcelona, the circus school Rogelio Rivel and Codarts Circus Arts in Rotterdam. He s created the Circus Association Manipulats in Majorca with Gràcia Moragues. He performs as a dancer and juggler with the profesional company De Dansers (Utrecht - NL) and as a dancer and acrobat with the company Moofme (Amsterdam).
Parcours artistique des acteurs de la création Véronique Valéry Actor and singer, Véronique Valéry has been working with la Cie La Rampe TIO for over twenty years. Very attached to exchanges, intercultural and interdisciplinary practices, she collaborates in various projects with regionals and internationals companies. Gérard Sanchez Actor, singer, writer, director since 1989, he s been trained in theatre, singing, dance. He often works for young audience as a performer or writer in different forms such as puppets (Théâtre du Rugissant), shadow theatre (Cie Amoros et Augustin), performance (Cie Internationale Alligator), burlesque (Cie Art Mixte), street theatre (Les P'tites Marguerites, Théâtre des Origines), occitan theatre (Cie TIO La Rampe), commedia dell arte (Cia dell Improvviso), or contemporary musical (Cie MarieAnne Thil). Jérôme Dru Stage musician, composer, arranger, he is behind and implements original creations marked by the exploration of traditional musics, an interest for contemporary writing and improvisation practice. His multi-indiscipline leads him to frequent rock, jazz, singing, contemporary, improvised or electronics musics areas His polyethnic culture allows him to approach an updating and recreating work around different mediterranean musical traditions, in Occitania, Turkey, Maghreb. Since 1992 he regularly writes, performs and produces soundtracks for theatre and dance companies. His collaboration with La Rampe-TIO begins in 2003 and totals seven shows, including 3 for young audiences. Suan Czepczynski Fashion and costume designer, she was trained in Paris fashion school Albert de Mun. She differentiates herself from traditional fashion shows, creating performances mixing musicians, dancers and actors playing in pictures close to cinematic art and presenting creations inspired by a cultural melting-pot. She was Emergence award winner for «Talent des Cités» in 2005,. Since about 10 years, she puts her talent at the service of theatre, dance and circus companies, such as Cie Malabar, La Rampe Tio, Cia dell Improvviso, Seydou Boro, Salia Sanou, les Grisettes, Art Cie, Cie Les P tites Marguerites, Cie Belle Pagaille, Outils théâtre, cirque Gosh Manu Martínez, First trained as a graphic designer, he works with lights since 1997 (la Cia General Eléctrica). Since, he mainly collaborates with dance companies. On tour with General Eléctrica, Nats Nus, Sol Picó, Lanònima Imperial, Au Ments, Los Excéntricos, Proyecto Archipiélago/J.S.Sinistierra, Roberto Olivan/Enclave, Ateneu Popular de 9 Barris... He designed lights for companies such as L Anònima Imperial, Au Ments, General Eléctrica, Tragant Dansa, Arts Cambra, Ateneu Popular de 9 barris, Pitus Fernández, Mariantònia Oliver. He won an award in Escènica 2011 (Balears) for the best lights (Petit Ball, Cia. Au Ments) and in Escènica 2012 (Malasombra, Cia. Au Ments) His last work was the illumination of s Oli 13, a bar in Palma de Majorca.
CONTACTS cia Mariantònia Oliver sl Plaça Quadrado 11 B 07001 Palma, Mallorca, Illes Balears Tf +34 659952033 info@mariantoniaoliver.net CIF 857382111 La Rampe - TIO Stella Fontana 42, rue Adam de Craponne 34000 Montpellier, France Tf +33 467 58 30 19 stella@larampe-tio.org www.larampe-tio.org