Theatre with La maison de Tassin
For people with psychological traumas, whose imagination and symbolisation skills are damaged, theatre and play are a way to “un-stigmatise”. Eric Massé, the director for La Compagnie des Lumas, will explore pretend games, true lies, and laughing, and build bridges with society where they don’t exist. Researching psychiatry for his 2008 production, he will examine the disturbance, the loss of control, the modifications in the language, etc. while experimenting clowning techniques and laughing with the participants. What makes us laugh? How do we laugh? What’s a “fou rire” (giggles, literally “crazy laugh”)? The stage thus becomes the place where everything is possible, meetings and risks included.

Circus at the Arapham “Les Villanelles” in Caluire
Les Subsistances and the École de Cirque in Lyon have entered a partnership with Les Villanelles to bring circus courses and an introduction creative processes to people with intellectual disabilities all through the year. Circus can be used to understand a person in his/her entirety and to develop both physical and creative abilities as it helps developing everyone’s potential. Our approach will focus mainly on the play, not the technical aspect. Play and the discovery of the readily available artistic environment will allow participants to grow and thrive.

Là où va la main vont les yeux / Dance-Sculpture
Sophie Brenas, the choreographer for Compagnie Onoma, and Awena Causannet, a sculptor, will visit the school Victor Hugo in Lyon
What is imagination? How does it work? How does it impact on our perception of the world around us? How does it move us (literally)? What representations of the body and of space does it create? Raised in 2006 during dance workshops designed for people with cerebral palsy and able-bodied people, these questions will continue to be asked in 2007 at Les Subsistances. In parallel, Sophie Brenas will use them to work with Awena Causannet, a sculptor, during a residence in a nursery school. This time will allow them to examine, together with children in the middle of their psychomotor development and their fertile imagination, a project based on perception, movement, mental images and imagination.
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Grandir / Circus
Fanny Vrinat, a tightrope walker, will set up camp at the École des Entrepôts, in Lyon. This project is supported by the École de cirque in Lyon.
How does circus allow children to express themselves and improve the creative skills of nursery school children? It helps them to explore sensations, use their bodies, develops their self-confidence and their trust in one another... Includes balancing acts on equipment or on the floor, aerials, juggling and clowning. This project is part of a solo creative work focused on the passage of time. This is a unique way to explore childhood that will take place at the nursery school, at the Ecole de Cirque and at Les Subsistances all through the year.

Students from the École de cirque in Lyon, fron the Ensatt, future IUFM teachers, students from the Lycée St-Éxupéry and Collège Marot, teachers from the Local Education authority in Lyon... all these people will work at les Subsistances at some point this year. As part of a workshop or experimentation, they will discover through practice or examine with artists contemporary stage formats. The projects developed with the teaching teams aim at thinking about the goals of contemporary art productions and at encouraging the desire and the need to face the new forms of art.