Cultural Action to Build:

• It all starts with an invitation. The company, accompanied by local partners, meets with local residents, associations, musicians, designers, people who want to make things with their hands, their mouths, their hearts, and with the people who live there.
• Each person introduces him or herself, gets to know and talk to the others, and with these first encounters, the first workshops are launched.
• During the installation, the company’s team will propose various workshops, enabling them to meet local residents and integrate 80 to 100 people into the show, giving them a unique experience around tightrope walking.

Tightrope workshops:

•  A good dose of freedom is given to the emotions and issues specific to this discipline, which is characterized by the taming of risk, the search for balance, self-knowledge, concentration and endurance. These initiations also provide an insight into the funambulist performance to come, touching the sensations of this discipline at close quarters.
• These workshops essentially take place in the public space in an unconvened way every day. It might also be interesting to organize some tightrope-walking workshops in a local school during the 1st week of set-up, for example.

Music Workshops:

• We invite 10 to 50 amateur musicians and/or singers to provide musical accompaniment for the show, guided by a conductor and accompanied by three Basinga musicians. The music will combine the company’s own compositions with pieces written for the occasion.
• Availability required: 3 x 3-hour workshops + dress rehearsal + performance. The choirmaster will be available in advance to talk with local musicians and facilitate mobilization.

Cavalettist Workshops:

• A number of people take part, depending on the length of the tightrope, holding the cavaletti – ropes attached to the tightrope. They serve to limit its oscillations, enabling the tightrope walker to progress. Cavalettists experience the crossing in an intense way. They play a key role in the show. Wire activities and/or cooperative games can be offered to complete the experience.
• Requested availability: 1 test walk / 1 dress rehearsal / 1 performance

Costume Workshops:

• To create costumes for all the participants, the costume designer opens her studio and/or travels to other locations, so that both experienced and novice hands can participate in the creation and crafting of different elements in wool, fabric, pearls, pompoms… At each new setting, the costumes evolve and adopt new attributes created by the participants.
• These costumes also create figures/characters that run through the show.

Photo Workshops:

• From the costumes created, the photographer invites local residents to create a character, choose costumes and put them on. They then embody these creatures and perform them on stage. First in an indoor studio, then in the city or in the homes of local residents.
• The photos are then distributed around the neighborhood.