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On a dark stage, a dancer in a hat balances on one hand on a stool while another watches from behind.

Show

Café-Floor

Café-Floor is a piece you come to without arranging to meet anyone, and where you meet the people you might have arranged to meet...

Duration
60 min
Performers
5
Audience
All audiences
Premiere
2018

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Welcome to Café-Floor!

Café-Floor of course evokes Le Café de Flore, the famous Parisian café-restaurant in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, a landmark of literary, philosophical, cultural, artistic and tourist Paris.

The café, a place of life

A place for gathering together or unwinding alone, we go to the café for a drink or a meeting, a game of cards or a chapter of a book, to watch life go by, to talk, to listen...

Café-Floor captures the many feelings we experience in these places: the intoxication of a drink, the euphoria of a meeting, the emotion of a smile, the joy of reunion, anger soothed, sorrow drowned, or the heady pleasure of a memory slowly sipped…

From dawn to daybreak, customers weave their way between tables where voices mingle with the din of the city, punctuated by the hiss of espresso machines, chairs scraping the floor and the clink of china.

Five dancers explore the life that unfolds in the intimacy of cafés, bars, pubs and bistros: five regulars of the Floor, five artists telling us the everyday scenes these lively places play host to…

Videos

Gallery

Five dancers striking waiters' poses on stage, one holding a tray in the centre of a hoop laid on the floor.
Photo : Sonia Blin
Dancer balancing on one hand above a stool, legs pointing skywards, two dancers in the half-light.
Photo : Gilles Aguilar
Two dancers in hats leaning over a bar stool under bluish light.
Photo : Gilles Aguilar
Dancers tangled together on the floor among folding chairs, reflections on the shiny floor.
Photo : Gilles Aguilar
A dancer hanging upside down in a Cyr wheel held by four dancers in braces and hats.
Photo : Rudolf Schaeffer
A dancer braced inside a Cyr wheel held by other dancers, another dancer with her leg extended, on a wooden stage.
Photo : Rudolf Schaeffer
Dancer balancing in a Cyr wheel against a blue and pink backdrop.
Photo : Sonia Blin
Shadow silhouettes of a couple of dancers holding trays, against a turquoise backdrop.
Photo : Sonia Blin
Red-haired dancer, hands crossed on her chest, looking to the side, against a black background.
Photo : Vibes – Aubin Rebillard
Dancers' shadows cast on a pink and orange backdrop, a dancer in green on the right.
Photo : Sonia Blin
Silhouettes of two dancers sitting face to face on chairs, against a turquoise backdrop.
Photo : Sonia Blin

Cast and crew

Choreographer and artistic director
Mehdi DIOURI
Artistic assistant
Céline TRINGALI
Music
Patrice PRIVAT - Stéphane LAVALLÉE
Lighting design
Fabrice SARCY
Set design
Anne LE MOTTAIS
Costumes
Anaïs CAULAT
Production and support
Production
Cie MehDia
Supported by
[CCN Créteil Cie Käfig](https://kafig.com/compagnie-mehdia-1975812) - Saône-et-Loire Department - Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region - Cie Dyptik - Pôle en Scènes - L’Abbéïcité, Abbaye de Corbigny - Step by Step Studio - Centre Ken-Saro-Wiwa
Photo credits
Sonia BLIN - Rudolf SHAEFFER - Y.TPhotographie - Aubin REBILLARD - Gilles AGUILARD

Dates

Past dates

  1. ShowPostponed

    Morteau (25)

    Théâtre de Morteau · Programmation de saison

  2. 11 – 12 Mar 2021

    ShowPostponed

    Montauban (82)

    Espace des Augustins

  3. Outreach

    End-of-residency showing: EAC territorial residency (arts and cultural education)

    Givry (71)

    École Lucie Aubrac

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