Like nomads migrating to the rhythm of the seasons, three “hunter-gatherers of sound” set out to discover new landscapes and imaginary worlds. Inspired by traditional peoples, they take their habitat with them, build their shelter for one night, then set off again for new lands. These playful travellers express themselves in song and dance, inventing vocal identities with ancestral overtones. Rhythm, space in transformation, movement… Three performers use voice, body and percussion to offer a musical journey evoking different states of nature, from the passage of time to the weather, or how nature is transformed as time goes by.
Islets of nature made up of bamboo structures, gourds and fabrics evoke a desert landscape in a refined aesthetic.
Inspired by the traditional nomadic cultures of Mongolia, Amazonia and Australia, strangely shaped musical instruments – mouth organs from Laos, aboriginal trumpets, bamboo phones, hijacked objects – become stage objects evoking plants or insects from another world, while offering multiple possibilities for musical and physical play..
“Expressing themselves in an imaginary language derived from Inuit, Papuan and Tibetan idioms, the three artists of the Compagnie du Porte-Voix evoke an enchanting world and help children discover the rhythm of life with strength, gentleness and ethnic music. A play full of roundness and almost magical charm”.
letempslibre.ch – Fribourg (Switzerland), 6 April 2014
“Simple and poetic, sensitive and touching, it teaches the youngest and reminds the oldest that music, whatever it may be, is the art of arranging sounds or silences melodically, harmonically and rhythmically, that it is at once a creation, a representation and a means of communication”.
L’Alsace, 14 June 2013
“A magical show. A highly original fairy tale”.
Ouest France, February 2013
“A little gem. I have only one desire… to see it again… A very fine, very subtle proposal… Extraordinary magic.”
Aline Paillier, France Culture – Jusqu’à la lune et retour, October 2012
“On the stage, islets made up of bamboo structures, gourds and fabrics evoke a desert landscape, a timeless world in motion, in which a tribe inspired by the traditional peoples of Mongolia, Amazonia and Australia lives. The exchange between the characters is expressed in a very rhythmic and playful way through dance, song, music and games. They play with their bodies, with strange and beautiful sounds created using unusual instruments [misappropriated objects, bamboo phones, mouth organs from Laos, aboriginal horns…]. It’s a laugh-out-loud experience for the very young.”
Françoise Sabatier-Morel – TTT Télérama, March 2012
Cast
Conception and artistic direction Florence Goguel
Collective creation
With Bérengère Altieri-Leca, Gonzalo Campo and Florence Goguel
External eye Martha Rodezno
Music consultancy, composition Frédéric Obry
Costumes, accessories and textile decor Marlène Rocher
Headdresses Maria Adelia
Lighting design and stage construction Paco Galan
Sound Frank Jamond, Jean-Luc Mallet
Theatrical form, created in 2012
Age family audience from 4 years
Length 50 minutes
1 to 2 performances per day
Audience 300 people
Set mini L. 9 m x P. 7 m
Assembly 3 services
Staff 5 people on tour
Primo Tempo… in the open air
The company is also offering a nomadic programme for outdoor spaces. This wandering performance takes place in the open air in parks and other natural settings, and is invented according to the location and the audience.
“…An impression of elsewhere to offer to the youngest.”. TTT – Télérama
Production Compagnie du Porte-Voix
Support The Compagnie du Porte-Voix is subsidised by the DRAC Ile-de-France – Ministère de la Culture. Conseil Départemental des Hauts de Seine, Conseil Départemental de la Seine-St-Denis [aide à la résidence], SPEDIDAM, ADAMI, Maison du Théâtre et de la Danse à Epinay-sur-Seine [compagnie en résidence], Espace Georges Simenon à Rosny-sous-Bois, Espace Culturel Lucien Jean à Marly-la-Ville, Centre Culturel Jacques Tati à Amiens, Service Spectacles de la ville de Gennevilliers.
