« Oli Park » ou les pratiques urbaines des ados dans le festival jeune public Pouce !
A micro-society
For his 11and edition, the Pouce! entirely dedicated to dance and young audiences moved to New Aquitaine from 1uh to February 11 and offers pieces for spectators from 3 years old. A dozen plays are to be discovered in the metropolis, in particular this “Oli Park”, this artistic and aesthetic adventure has become a play written with the playwright Adrien Cornaggia, a dozen teenagers and Gilles Baron. And transposed to the set, recreating a micro-society, a place where these young people are and feel themselves. Which is essential.
“As every time I embark on a new creation, I wonder about the project, explains Gilles Baron. With whom ? From what perspective? What policy? What environment? And I always wonder about audiences. I like to put amateur practice at the center of my work, in this case it’s about teenagers, which is an innovative experience for me. »
Upstream, the author and choreographer met young followers of urban practices: skateboarding, dancing, Parkour, scooters, etc. “It is important that they master one of these practices, then they respond to a call for projects and it is these responses that will define the piece,” he explains. There are therefore ten of them, aged 12 to 17, taking part in this experience, a small community that expresses itself on a specific terrain, this place that is theirs, a space of freedom where they express themselves.
“Because it is indeed an experience,” underlines Gilles Baron. How can I meet teenagers? I observe them and I leave them, I’m a bit like a director who follows them, I don’t ask them anything. I offer them a framework in which they can improvise and move from one sequence to another. There is little text, three short monologues, it was more about getting their words off the ground than wanting them to say things. » Text and free figures shared with the public.
And also this week
“An escape” by Julie Nioche, Wednesday February 2 at 3 p.m. at the Espace culturel du Bois Fleuri in Lormont. “Why is a tree a hen? by Marc Lacourt and Delphine Perret, Saturday February 5 at the M.270 in Floirac. The festival continues next week in the metropolis, but beware, two plays are postponed to May: “Me, my room, my street” and “Salti”. The full program can be found at lamanufacture-cdcn.org.