During the French presidency of the EU (2nd semester 2008)...

Lyon, Rouen, Cherbourg, Prague and Stockholm: we had meetings, training courses and search workshops that have lead the way to creation.

February 2008,  Lyon (Fr)

Reception of Jiří Sulženko (Czech partner) and of Mona Guichard (Head of the Trident-Scène nationale de Cherbourg-Octeville).

Rehearsals and performances by the Company Image Aiguë. Flash back on the artistic approach.

March, April 2008, Krakow (PL)

Setting up of workshops for training and theatrical search in primary schools in Biezanow and Krakow. Meeting with the polish accordionist Tomasz Drabina. Public representation of the Impromptus within the Krakowian Festival "Reminiscencje" with 15 polish children. Reflection on the organisation of the Lyon Forum “A soul for Europe” with Sven Neumann (Berliner partner) and Nele Hertling (spokesperson for Soul for Europe).

July, August 2008, Lyon (Fr)

Workshop for training and theatrical search around the creation of Ici là-bas. Welcoming of the young European comedians (France, Poland, Turkey and Italy) together with professional artists of the company (comedians, musicians and dancer).

October 2008, Lyon (Fr)

Representations of the performance Ici là-bas at the Célestins, Theatre of Lyon.

Workshop for the creation of images with students of the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw (PL) under the direction of the graphic designer Gérard Paris-Clavel and of the  professor Mieczyslaw Wasilewski. This workshop at the School of Fine Arts of Lyon is the result of numerous exchanges with Image Aiguë’s artistic team.

The Lyon Forum, “A soul for Europe” brings together 80 participants from 16 countries: Round table on the subject “Can creation overthrow frontiers?”

« Ici là-bas »

November 2008, Rouen (FR)

Representations of the performance Ici là-bas at the “théâtre des Rives”.

Presentation of excerpts of Ici là-bas at the closing of the annual conference for intercultural Dialogue at the Centre Pompidou.

Participation to the conference “A soul for Europe”in Berlin.

December 2008, Cherbourg-Octeville (FR)

Representation of the performance “Ici là-bas” at the Trident, national stage. Interview of the artistic team by French journalists. Spotting in Stockholm by Nicolas Bertrand. Spotting in Prague by the Image Aiguë’s team: Christiane Véricel, Nicolas Bertrand and the comedian Franck Kayap.

January 2009, Lyon (FR)

Administrative steps to obtain a visa for the Turkish comedian Burhan Taskiran. Organisation of a trip to Brussels for Nicolas Bertrand and Christiane Véricel’s to meet Marc Taquet-Graziani (General Direction for Communication at the European Commission).

February 2009, Prague (CZ)

Workshop for training and theatrical search, one week at the Campanus school, close to Zahrada, a cultural centre in the heart of Prague 11 (popular district).

Master classes with José, Dagmar, Teresa, Adam and young Czech comedians. Public workshop lead by Image Aiguë within the "Workshopping" at Zahrada. Around ten Czech took part in the performance together with professional comedians of the company.

April 2009, Lyon

Reception of the comedians from Prague invited to take part in the workshops for training and theatrical search for the Czech version of “Ici là-bas”.

Visit to the educationalists of Botkyrka, town in the suburbs of Stockholm.

Visit to the Célestins, Theatre of Lyon, by Czech children and Lyon’s European Theatrical Ensemble  

Aim: Create bridges with other artists in order to invent a common language.

Please visit the links:

- “Pourparlers”, the 20th of October on the theme “Can creation overthrow frontiers?” at the Célestins-Théâtre of Lyon.

- The Lyon forum “A soul for Europe”, organised on the 10th and 11th of October 2009.

- Meeting with Christiane Véricel, stage director and Dominique Ginet, Psychologist and lecturer at the University Lyon II.

Press :

“Sur le Fil”, (on the thread) La Tribune de Lyon, 23/10/08
  “Ici, La-Bas”(here and there) at the Célestins, “491”, October 2008

L'Europe sur un plateau, La Vie,( Europe on a tray, Life) , 11/02/09

Exteriors Links :
“Les Célestins”, Theatre of Lyon
“Théâtre des 2 Rives”
“Le Trident, national stage of Cherbourg-Octeville”