Opopop – a circus and juggling company in Dijon

LES MOUVANTS

Choreographic Installation
random and interactive
for contemporary dancers

Exhibition
Suitable for all ages

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opopop - Les Mouvants — a random choreographic installation for visual dancers

opopop - Les Mouvants — a random choreographic installation for sculptural dancers

opopop - Les Mouvants — exhibitions of endlessly dancing sculptural puppets

opopop - Les Mouvants — exhibitions of endlessly dancing plastic puppets

opopop - Les Mouvants — plastic puppets illuminated in colour

opopop – Les Mouvants — exhibition at the Dijon Museum of Fine Arts

opopop - Les Mouvants — exhibition at the Dijon Museum of Fine Arts

opopop - Les Mouvants — an exhibition adaptable to any type of venue

opopop - Les Mouvants — exhibition at the Dijon Museum of Fine Arts

opopop - Les Mouvants — a ballet of sculptural puppets

opopop - Les Mouvants — interactive exhibition at the Dijon Museum of Fine Arts

opopop - Les Mouvants — interactive installation

opopop - Les Mouvants — interactive choreographed installation

opopop - Les Mouvants — interactive choreographic installation

Exhibition at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Dijon

The“Mouvants” dance with the wind, just as fire dances in the hearth.
As the breeze blows, you’ll follow their spellbinding dances, mesmerised by their falls and leaps, absorbed by their shifting colours.
A ballet of form will unfold before your eyes and they will dance for you endlessly.

opopop - Les Mouvants – design of the poster for the young audiences’ festival at the Scène Nationale de Chalon-sur-Saône

opopop - Les Mouvants – plastic bodies dancing in a breath of wind

opopop – Les Mouvants – sculptural bodies dancing in a breath of wind

opopop – Les Mouvants – Poster for the Young Audiences Festival at the Scène Nationale de Chalon-sur-Saône: ‘Les Piccolis’

opopop - Les Mouvants - Poster for the Young Audiences Festival at the Scène Nationale de Chalon-sur-Saône: Les Piccolis

opopop – Les Mouvants – an evolving set design adaptable to different spaces

opopop – Les Mouvants – installation at the Espace des Arts, Scène Nationale de Chalon-sur-Saône

opopop – Les Mouvants – installation at the Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône National Theatre

opopop – Les Mouvants – the audience immersed amongst the plastic figures

opopop – Les Mouvants – an immersive experience for the audience facing the plastic figures

opopop – Les Mouvants – choreographed installation at a national theatre in Burgundy

opopop – Les Mouvants – a choreographed installation at the national theatre in Burgundy

Exhibition and workshop at the Espace des Arts, Scène Nationale de Chalon-sur-Saône

In this poetic installation, our plastic waste is given a new lease of life; it dances with our dreams and soars away on a sensuous breeze, revealing light, ethereal, free-floating forms—sometimes human, sometimes monstrous—which crash to the ground only to take flight once more.

This hypnotic installation is a moment of stillness, a suspended moment in time where the audience will be invited, if they so wish, to play with the whims of the wind and take control of the colours to interact with these vulnerable ‘beings’.

This silent ballet, in a state of perpetual renewal, will be accompanied by minimalist, immersive music, specially composed to support these ghostly ‘dancers’ in their improvisations.

Technically,
these plastic puppets – the number of which can be adapted to suit the venue – will be set in motion individually by an invisible ventilation system incorporated into the set design.
Each will be illuminated by two LED spotlights capable of mixing all the primary colours; the audience will be able to intervene in the programmed colour schemes and control the colour changes.
The fan speed can also be adjusted.

Audience members will be immersed in the same black box as the ‘plastic performers’ and enveloped by the music; a multi-channel sound system will be installed.

Designed for museums, theatres, media centres, festivals and cultural venues, this installation—suitable for all audiences—combines puppetry, movement-based performance and audience participation. Having been presented at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon and the Espace des Arts — Scène nationale in Chalon-sur-Saône, it can be adapted to any venue in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and beyond.

Through this installation, the ‘Mouvants’ will come to life in an endless cycle of renewal.