
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
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…
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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
Outreach
End-of-residency showing: EAC territorial residency (arts and cultural education)
Givry (71)
École Lucie Aubrac
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