Compagnie MALABAR 300, avenue de la Gare – 30250 SOMMIÈRES (FR) +33 (0)4 66 77 10 27 – [email protected] www.ciemalabar.com – www.youtube.com/ciemalabar

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Urban theatre Five shows on tour DRAGONÜS – creation 2013 LE VOYAGE DES AQUARÊVES LES GARDIENS DU SOLEIL LE BESTIAIRE ÉTINCELANT LES MARQUIZES EN…CHANTENT

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European project HELIDRA with the show DRAGON

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The Malabar Company appeared in 1981, on the Mediterranean coast, bathed in the Catalonian and Languedoc cultures. Composed of a collective of multi-talented theatrical and visual artists from all over Europe, the company has, from its earliest days, always rejected any space where the show is enclosed. By creating a fantastic universe in the street, MALABAR brings urban shows in perpetual motion where the priority is the interaction with the audience.

Ambassador of street theatre and circus arts from the South of France, Malabar is recognized today thanks to its permanent capacity of adaptation to hosts expectations and to the character of cultural events and its permanent imagination to build new projects including for huge cultural events. Opening or closing shows of festivals, biggest shows of a cultural program… Malabar is acting everywhere, during all the year, and all over the world, for all kind of audiences, for all generations, an audience frequently more numerous than 10 000 people per show. The Company Malabar has perpetuated its activity by producing shows of quality. This artistic quality, the technical rigor, logistics, and administration of the company assure us the fidelity of all our collaborators.

IN 32 YEARS, THE COMPANY MALABAR HAS BEEN INVITED IN 45 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES!

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..... 2013 1st of the european project Helidra, Athens, Greece – Dragon ..... 2013 Fêtes de la Deûle, Lille, France – Le Voyage des Aquarêves and Le Bestiaire étincelant ..... 2012 OFF of the Summer Olympics, Greenwich, Great-Britain – Le Voyage des Aquarêves ..... 2012 Aste Nagusia - Fiestas de Bilbao, Spain – Le Voyage des Aquarêves ..... 2011 Tour in Mexico – Le Bestiaire étincelant and Les Gardiens du Soleil ..... 2011 International Festival of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania – Helios III and Le Bestiaire étincelant ..... 2011 Špancirfest, Varaždin, Croatia – Les Gardiens du Soleil ..... 2011 Letní Letná Festival, Prague, Czech Republic – Le Voyage des Aquarêves ..... 2010 Festival Sziget, Budapest, Hungary – Le Voyage des Aquarêves and anthology of Malabar ..... 2010 Grande Fête de Lens, France, anthology of all our creations ..... 2010 Bicentenary of the independance of cap Vert – Le Bestiaire étincelant with 10 trainees ..... 2009 Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore – Helios and Le Bestiaire étincelant ..... 2008 International Exposition, Zaragoza, Spain – L’Odyssée des Saltimbanques ..... 2008 « Stavanger 2008, european capitale of culture », Norway – Helios II and Le Voyage des Aquarêves ..... 2007 Nuit blanche in Rome, Italy – Helios II ..... 2007 Entrance of Bulgaria in European Union, Sofia, Bulgaria – Le voyage des Aquarêves ..... 2006 MOT Festival and the opening of the Nuit blanche, Skopje, Macedonia – Helios II ..... 2006 Letní Letná Festival, Prague, Czech Republic – Helios at the festival of the new circus of Prague ..... 2006 Sites en scène, Saintes, France – Helios with the participation of the colombian circus school Circo Para Todos ..... 2006 Jour de Loire, France – Helios first of the largest artistic parade ever made ..... 2005 Tour in Mexico, international street theatre festival of Zacatécas, international festival Cervantino ..... 2005 Dubaï Shopping festival, United Arab Emirates – Le Voyage des Aquarêves ..... 2004 Opening of the theater season of the city of Santander, Spain ..... 2004 Birthday celebration of the Grand Rodez, France – Helios ..... 2002 Inauguration of the largest bridge of Poland, Warsaw ..... 2002 Carnaval of Marseille, France : organisation and artistic direction of the event ..... 2001 A spectacular event, Hong Kong, China ..... 2001 Inauguration of the Mediterranean TGV, France ..... 2001 The world theatre festival, Moscow, Russia ..... 2001 Wind festival, Calvi, France – Le Voyage des Aquarêves ..... 2000 MOT Festival, Skopje, Macedonia – Le Voyage des Aquarêves ..... 2000 Festival Juste pour rire, Montreal, Canada ..... 2000 Celebration of the Evening of New Year, Lunel, France ..... 2000 French language year in Moscow, Moscow, Russia ..... 2000-99 Carnaval of Martigues, France : artistic direction of the event ..... 1999 Fêtes du Patrimoine, Languedoc-Roussillon, France ..... 1999 Les Éléments déchaînés, Sète, France : creation of the event with Richard Di Rosa ..... 1998 Festival Boréalis, Montpellier, France : parade of Voyage des Aquarêves for 250 000 dreamers ..... 1998 Le Théâtre aérien futuriste, Neuchâtel, Switzerland ..... 1998 Soccer World Cup, stade de France, Saint-Denis, France ..... 1998 1 st Anniversary of a national theatre of Guadeloupe, Guadeloupe ..... 1997 Black and White Ball, San Francisco, USA ..... 1996 800th anniversary of the city of Perpignan, Perpignan, France ..... 1996 30th anniversary of the visit of Salvador Dalí, Perpignan, France ..... 1995 Féria de Cali, Colombia ..... 1994 Closing show of the Mediterranean Game, Nîmes, France ..... 1994 25th of BBC Radio 1, Birmingham, United Kingdom ..... 1992 The Winter Olympics of Albertville, France ..... 1989 The Centenary of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France

issu du projet H E L I D R A

Dragonüs, creation 2014 TEAM 11 persons ....4 stiltwalkers ....1 acrobat ....2 musicians ....1 singer ....1 technician ....1 driver ....1 pyrotechnician

acts stilts live musician

Duration .... about 90 minutes

The show Dragonüs invites you in a medieval and futuristic world where the tyranny appeared under the mythical personification of an iron dragon thirsty with power. Spreading the terror in the heart of the village, he maintains inhabitants under his yoke. But it would be without taking into account brave knights, who are going to walk around in your streets, ready to defend body and soul innocent people. Rush into the incredible universe and come out again fortified by this battle for the liberty of consciousness. On a original and live music, Malabar’s stilt walkers will show you their best acrobatic prowesses. The iron and light dragon is a monumental construction in progress. Widely present in European myths, he symbolizes the richness of dictators eaten away by greed, cupidity and authoritarianism. They are the guardians of a treasure filled with gold and obtained by blood and violence. Thank to its makers’ staff and their fertile imagination, Malabar learnt how to give birth to this dragon, symbol of a post-apocalyptic period in the grip of the most tyrannical persons. Perched on their suspension stilts, the four knights will fight against the dragon until its last breath to save the local population enslaved. They embody the idea of cooperation and exchanges between Europeans cultures thank to their innate/natural sense of justice and honor.

The Travel of the Aquadreams Staff 12 persons ....4 stiltwalkers ....2 musicians ....2 acrobats ....3 technicians ....1 singer

Acts Stilts

A Lunar boat is drifting in the street of your town. Its mysterious crew explores this new land. Wherever its eye comes to rest on the city livens up and transforms itself. Bathing in an atmosphere of dreams, humour and poetry, the Aquarêves vessel transports crew and spectators, drifting along in a current of fantastic parties. The parade The Parade is a sequence of phantasmagoric scenes flowing around the majestic movement of the Aquarêves ship, 16 meters long. The whole urban landscape becomes a theater in which numerous astonished surprises are conjured up by a company of sprung-stilt walkers, acrobats, pyrotechnicians and musicians. Le show

juggling

The Aquarêves ship comes to anchor in the stage area. The finale is a succession of pictures combining choreographed stilt walkers, stunts, acrobatics, juggling, aerial acts, pyrotechnics… weaving a fabric of dreamlike images. At the end, the playground is filled with foam and the audience is invited to party and perform the last act with us…

pyrotechnics

Le Voyage des Aquarêves has been seen in...

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Sarajevo (BA), Toronto (CA), Kirkenes (NO), Narvik (NO), Tirana (AL), Xánthi (GR), Jelenia Góra (PL), Limburg (NL), centenaire de la tour Eiffel (FR), Yverdon-les-Bains (CH), Cardiff (GB), Barcelone (ES), Tournai (BE), Rimini (IT), San Francisco (US), Londres (GB), Montpellier (FR), Oakland (US), Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe), Stockton (GB), Moscou (RU), Québec (CA), Skopje (Macédoine), Calvi (FR), Kilkenny (IR), Gdansk (PL), Saragosse (ES), Varsovie (PL), Lekeitio (ES), Poznań (PL), Schwerte (DE), Burgos (ES), Léon (ES), Paris (FR), Sainte-Savine (FR), Lyon (FR), Sartène (FR), Biarritz (FR), Châtellerault (FR), Montreuil (FR), Trappes (FR), « Parcs en fête » (FR), Budapest (HU)…

chinese pool aerial tissue

Duration parade ....around 45 minutes

final ....around 30 minutes

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The Guardians of the Sun Staff 10 persons

The show is a surrealistic evocation of the construction of the solar aster, based on different legends and tradition and heliopolitan cosmogony. A story of feats…each performance tells us an aspect of the primitive star.

.... 5 stiltwalkers .... 2 musicians .... 1 acrobat .... 1 light technician

The show is a surrealistic evocation of the construction of the solar aster, based on different legends and tradition and heliopolitan cosmogony. A story of feats…each performance tells us an aspect of the primitive star.

.... 1 pyrotechnician

Acts stilts

The Sunset: The dawn of the first day is worn by the stilt walkers, worshippers of the sun.

hoop aerial tissue juggling music live

Duration parade

The Zenith: The builders of the sun complete the construction of the sun: juggling, manipulations of the Chinese sticks then big shelves. Then the guards play and jump into its sunshine with a precision and a surprising suppleness (jumping rope on stilts).

The Sunrise: At the dawn of the first night the creation, the stiltwalkers manipulate the light, in a torrent of fire (choreographed pyrotechnics)

....around 45 minutes

final ....around 35 minutes

Les Gardiens du Soleil has been seen in… Castres (FR), Le Grau-du-Roi (FR), Sauve (FR), Anduze (FR), Budapest (HU), La Corogne (ES), Perpignan (FR), Granville (FR), Fécamp (FR), Miramont-de-Guyenne (FR), Varaždin (CR), Puebla (MX)…

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Bestiaire étincelant

The Sparkling Bestiary Staff .... 4 stiltwalkers

The Mediterranean basin is in mythology the cradle blessed by the Gods. Malabar, the offspring of differing streams, fed by the circus arts, gifted with a creative madness, has brought back from their distant voyages their own... glittering bestiary of extraordinary creatures.

.... 2 musicians

The parade

.... 1 acrobat

An acrobat, distracted, has let his phantasmagorical creatures escape. One of them is nesting in a tree, another is hiding in a doorway, a third tries to dissimulate itself in a telephone booth whilst the other takes refuge with a not too reassured shopkeeper one has demanded political asylum and refuses to leave the police station in which it had looked for sanctuary. As for more rapid ones, they have disappeared into the surroundings.

8 PERSONS

.... 1 technician

Acts stilts aerial tissue juggling

The show « the mostra »

parade

The show is based on the traditional Mostra and interpreted in modern way. The tamer must now bring out the personality of each creature of the bestiary. By the end of the show they will have succeeded, together, in presenting a fabulous choreography, mixing the styles, passing from acrobatic tango to can-can and finishing with a pyro-symphonic cloudswing number.

.... around 45 minutes

Le Bestiaire étincelant has been seen in…

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Łódź (PL), Aix-les-Bains (FR), Annecy (FR), Argelès-sur-Mer (FR), Cali (CO), Canet (FR), Évian (FR), Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (FR), Lille (FR), Saint-Raphaël (FR), Montpellier (FR), Gdańsk (PL), Oakland (US), Perpignan (FR), Douai (FR), Givors (FR), Thuir (FR), Guyancourt (FR), Nîmes (FR), Port-Barcarès (FR), Rochefort (FR), Saint-Denis (FR), San Francisco (US), Strasbourg (FR), Aix-la-Chapelle (FR), Ternay (FR), Purmerend (NL), Hong Kong (CN), Ajaccio (FR), Montréal (QC), Viana (ES), Azara (ES), Huarte (ES), Alsasua (ES), Valréas (FR), Zacatecas (MX), San Cristóbal de las Casas (MX), Valle de Bravo (MX)...

music live

Duration

.... around 35 minutes

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Marquizes en.. chantent The Exquisites Marquizes Staff 6 persons ....4 stiltwalkers ....1 musician ....1 technician

Acts songs ....lyric singing of the xviith ....baroques songs ....popular singings of the

Four actresses with sturdy character, perched on their certainty, wearing the costumes of the epoch, accompanied by their servant-musician, cry out and loud their thoughts about love and freedom. Their are from the high these Marquizes ! Oh yes thez are freed! Certainly, they measure us and in spite of their corsets, their elegant dresses and their wigs, nothing can retain them. The public accompanies this four Marquizes in their route which leads them to the bal of King on July 13th, 1789. Who will succeed in obtaining the favours of His Majesty and in becoming her favourite? Four sisters, with the very singular character, are not completely ready for this memorable evening. They sharp their charm and rehearse their dances and singings of seduction…

....pavane

An atmosphere of lightness, imagination, and revolt are present in the show. Contemporaries’ texts and songs add an absurd dimension to the situations. An enthusiasm of gaiety, party and revolution surrounds the actors and spectators.

....menuets

Les Marquizes has been seen in…

....carmagnole

Gien (FR), Leucate (FR), Beaugency (FR), Châteauneuf-sur-Loire (FR), Nîmes (FR), Port-Barcarès (FR), Saint-Jean-du-Gard (FR), Sommières (FR), Herblay (FR), Versailles (FR), Québec (CA), Montréal (CA), Villeneuve-lès-Avignon (FR), Menin (BE), Vlissingen (NL), Canet-en-Roussillon (FR), Joué-lès-Tours (FR), Guadeloupe (FR), îles Baléares (ES), Saint-Raphaël (FR), Haguenau (FR), Poissy (FR), Blagnac (FR), SaintGeorges-de-Didonne (FR), Budapest (HU), Minorque (ES), Olite (ES), Montpellier (FR), Marseille (FR)…

french and italian repertoire

dances on stilts

Duration parade and show ....around 60 minutes

european project 2 0 1 3 - 2 0 1 4

The european literary heritage meets the dragon in the street

Les partenaires

Introduction

Malabar (Sommières, France) is specialized in huge scale, imposing performances outdoors mixing theatre with circus arts, huge constructions, music live and pyrotechnics.

Helidra is a unique collaboration project between four street theatre companies in Greece, Poland, France and Bulgaria who work all of them in the public space. The collaboration promotes experimentation of forms and innovative genres through the street theatre medium. Indeed, it is a particular type of performance in the public space which is revealed in the urban life and creates an opportunity for the local population to gather themselves to play, to share and to learn. By bringing the theatre in the streets, the public is invited to reinterpret his environment, the urban landscape and the local heritage through a spectacular visual performance.

Helix Street Theatre (Athens, GR) works internationally. It is an innovative company on their approach of the public space in their performances. Each year, she opens the International Street Theatre Festival in Athens.

Teatr Biuro Podrozy (Poznan, PL) has a long tradition of performances in public space with an underlying social and politic sensibility.

Sofia Puppet Theatre (Sofia, BG) works with a multitude of styles and genres including miniature puppets, musicals, pantomimes and shadow theatre.

Prisma (Athens, GR) is an independent organization of research and development of projects, with a particular experience in the field of culture, education and civism.

Research: a common European heritage The project builds his theme on the common European literary tradition of the heroes-guardians of the frontiers of Europe and exploits the research made for the European project Acrinet. Stories resulting from this research describe memorable examples of cooperation and exchange between cultures and they underline the role of symbolic heroes during time of peace. Those traditions carry a social and precious message for the Europe of today: the vitality of a dynamic comprehension and an effective construction of the peace. The “building of bridges” and the peaceful coexistence conveyed by Acrites legends and poems have a special signification for our European society of the XXIst century, multicultural society with several ethnic groups and several confessions. Those researches are made to create the scenario and the libretto of the show Dragon. A collaboration project Helidra has been created by a consortium of four street theatre companies and one independent consultancy specialized in local development, production of performances for the public space and also in the cultural research and organization of events.

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Helix Street Theatre, www.helix-theatre.gr

European project HELIDRA

The performance Dragon adopts a rock-opera form and is addressed to a diverse public, reflecting the experimental nature of the project. It represents a spectacular performance combining dance, music live, singings, acrobatics, optical illusions, videos projections and pyrotechnics, the all creating a mythical landscape to captivate the public. The rock-opera is presented in the Vrahon festival, in Athens, the 19th, 20th and 21st September 2013, and will be, by consequence, in tour in Europe creating the opportunity for actors, musicians, technicians and the rest of the staff to collaborate together and play in others countries. Big Urban Games

Malabar, www.ciemalabar.com

Teatr Biuro Podróży, www.teatrbiuropodrozy.pl

Sofia Puppet Theatre, www.sofiapuppet.com

Some events are foreseen for the public before and during performances. At the time of the preparation of the premiere, a series of interactive, playful and educative games will be organized to inspire and provoke the interest of the public around the show, to invite him to experiment and explore their urban environment in Athens streets, through new technologies. Workshops Artists are invited to take part in international workshops in Sommières (March 2013), Athens (September 2013), Poznan (March 2014) and Sofia (September 2014). Workshops, lead by professionals working in street arts field, will talk about each aspect of public space shows, encouraging artists to explore new techniques, new artistic forms, script writing and others skills as acrobatics, movement and different styles of animation. With the support of the European program Culture

Prisma - Center For Development Studies, www.prismanet.gr

& M A L A B A R and the knowledge transmission

Others parade forms

Events Knowledge Transmission

We can provide others forms, mobile sets and costumes for parades of special events. We will give you some more information if you ask so. Parade forms

According to Sylvestre JAMET, founder of the Malabar Company, there is no creation without transmission.

... The languedocian bestiary : « Picasso’s Bull », 2 « Butterfly-stiltwalkers» and 2 « cowboy-stillwalkers », 1 aerial act

In the street performer profession, claimed by Malabar, artistic and technical researches are fully part of the educative action.

Mobile Sets

Since our creation, the exchange Creation / Transmission exists. We have learnt our profession thanks to the knowledge of other people and thanks to the pleasure to share this knowledge.

Acts

Since 1985, we have contributed to the development of Street Theatre in Spain by proposing different formations. Our international tours bring us to propose some workshops in Colombia, Great Britain, Belgium, Israel, Mexico, Canada, United Arabic Emirates, Kosovo, Macedonia and Venezuela. We can provide workshops before our performances.

... « Picasso’s Bull » (with 2 musicians) ... The greek musical amphoras, a sound system

... Aerial acts : Single aerial web, aerial straps ...Juggling, objects manipulation ... Cyr wheel, trampoline ... Balance ball, etc. Pyrotechnics and Fireworks K4

Presentation of our main partner

Quai des Arts

S o m m i è r e s Artistic residency

Agréé AFDAS et DRTEFP In 2001, an former station of merchandise was renewed and transformed into a artistic residency : this is le Quai des Arts in Sommieres, close to the cities of Montpellier and Nimes, in south France. After being dedicated to permanent residencies, Le Quai des Arts evolved to be at the disposal of artists of all kind. This cultural platform regroups ... a place of artistic residency and rehearsals; ... a centre of professional trainings for artists; ... a theatre with 300 seats since Autumn 2012. Infrastructures and material

www.kedez.fr

Association French law 1901

... two rooms for rehearsals : 500 m² and 9 m high, with standard and secured circus material: trampoline, aerial tissue, stilts, etc.; ... equipped workshops of creation of sets and costumes : 400 m²; ... workshop for mechanics;

300, avenue de la Gare

... equipped offices / meeting room;

30250 Sommières

... fitted kitchen / dining room for 20 persons;

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... accommodation for about 20 persons in rooms and caravans;

Phone. : 04 66 71 52 61

... esplanade of 3 000 m² for outdoor rehearsals.

Fax : 04 66 77 39 81 [email protected]

Siret : 445 071 186 00016 Code APE : 8559B N° TVA intracommunautaire  : FR 34445071186

Our partners 2 0 1 3

Collaboration with other street theatre companies

Place of residency and training centre

With the support of

Compagnie Malabar Le Quai des Arts 300, avenue de la Gare 30250 SOMMIÈRES, France

Phone : +33 4 66 77 10 27 [email protected] www.ciemalabar.com www.youtube.com/ciemalabar