Compagnie Philippe Genty have been presenting inspired and original work that merges visual and physical theatre with dance and puppetry for the last thirty-five years.
Arts Asia Pacific is working with Compagnie Philippe Genty to bring Voyageur Immobiles [Still Travelers] to more audiences. Voyageur Immobiles [Still Travelers] provides intoxicating pleasure by blending puppets and human actors together in one perfect artistry.
“In 1995, when I created “Still Travelers,” I focused on the voyage of a character walking through his own inner landscapes and coming face to face with himself. And then it happened that an uncontrollable skid led me down a path where the odyssey of a single character progressively turned into the odyssey of a group, and then that of humanity passing through time, space, with its obsessions, struggles, conflicts, disgraces, icons, terrors, fascinations, dreams and denials…
Striking images as they suggest to us a wide range of paths, trips across oceans and deserts, sometimes of Biblical dimensions, with a derisory glance and a sort of humor which keeps us from sinking into despair.
From 1996 to 1997, this Voyageurs Immobiles [Still Travelers] was to travel all over the world. In hindsight, the topic seems to be even more contemporary, a topic that provokes me, calls out to me, and encourages me to explore it even more, to develop it by extending particular leads, by changing some scenes beyond oceans, beyond deserts… “ Philippe Genty – 2009
Since 1975, Compagnie Philippe Genty has been presenting spectacular productions which have never failed to mesmerize audiences around the world. Some of their highly acclaimed works include Désirs parades, Clandestine Passenger, Dédale, and La Fin Des Terres in which AAP produced in 2007, 2008 and 2009
Philippe Genty:
“As everyone knows reality imitates illusion.
From illusion to reality, the Philippe Genty Company travels through a universe where absurd, derisive, cruel images fit into a method of association without narrative logic, as in a dream.
Images which rediscover old wounds, reawaken first fears, first desires and bear witness to our vertiginous within.
The Company won the Critics’ Prize at the Edinburgh festival for dance, though it isn’t only dance. It is theatre but a theatre without text. A theatre where the actor confronts material objects.
A physical confrontation which seizes and fixes in space man confronted with his own conflicts.
A theatre where man transcends his miserable condition to elevate himself to a dream of infinity.
If you are interested in presenting Compagnie Philippe Genty’s Voyageur Immobiles [Still Travelers] please contact Torben Brookman on torben@artsap.com
More information about Compagnie Philippe Genty can be found at www.PhilippeGenty.com |
