OUAT WHAT WATT - 2029

Theater of unidentified living objects / All audiences from 4 years old

By

Céline Garnavault & Thomas Sillard

Director

Céline Garnavault

Creation

2029/2030

Strange mineral, textile, and electronic bestiary that of "OUAT (what watt)": a giant mountain that slides, sound clumps, a rocking stone, a purring peanut, singing stones, a wheeled potato, and funny little plank-like animals with feverish movements.

All these creatures make up a mysterious world with its own functioning, a microcosm that we observe and listen to, fascinated. But, do we really know who is watching whom? And who are the most curious, the human spectators or the objects?

We will ask ourselves these questions and many others during the creation of this show, which is still only in its early stages and prototypes...


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Videos

Production

ARTISTIC TERRITORIAL RESIDENCE 2023 

  • DSN - Dieppe National Scene
  • Dieppe maritime
  • Compagnie La Boîte à sel
  • Drac Normandy
  • DSDEN Seine Maritime - Departmental Services Directorate of National Education of Seine Maritime 
  • City of Tourville-Sur-Arques 

Team
  • Direction and staging: Céline Garnavault
  • Sound creation and living objects: Thomas Sillard
  • Artistic collaboration and illustrations: Gauthier David
  • Scenographic collaboration: Olivier Droux
  • Construction: Daniel Péraud
  • Production manager: Kristina Deboudt
  • Production officer: France Fiévet
  • Production assistant: Jessica Bodard
  • General management company: Antoine Auger
  • Accounting and salaries: Marie Rossard

Full Description

The project to create OUAT WHAT WATT was born during a 5-week territorial residency in the territory of Tourville-Sur-Arques in Seine Maritime, with DSN-Dieppe Scène Nationale.This residency titled LES INVITÉ•ES allowed us to freely explore several research axes: sound vibration and sub-bass as well as the question of the autonomous movement of the object.

In parallel to this empirical and artisanal research, we invited all children aged 2 to 11 from the school to share our explorations, to express their emotions on sensitive cards following these encounters with living objects, to draw their constellations of the menhir, and to share with us the evocations born from these shared observations.

A documentary film on this shared research was made by Luka Merlet and was released in September 2023. (viewable above). The book-notebook "Les invité·es" written for the project by author-illustrator Gauthier David was published in 250 copies by the company La Boîte à sel, and given to all participants in the project.


Diffusion

CREATION SEASON 29/30 - IN SEARCH OF CO-PRODUCERS

SEASON 22/23

TERRITORIAL AND ARTISTIC RESIDENCY

  • from December 10 to 13, 2022 > preparatory meetings in TOURVILLE-SUR-ARQUES (76)
  • from January 30 to February 3, 2023 > Research Laboratory in TOURVILLE-SUR-ARQUES (76)
  • from March 13 to 24, 2023 > Research Laboratory in TOURVILLE-SUR-ARQUES (76)
  • from April 10 to 14, 2023 > Research Laboratory in TOURVILLE-SUR-ARQUES (76)
  • from June 19 to 24, 2023 > Research Laboratory in TOURVILLE-SUR-ARQUES (76)
  • on June 24, 2023 > Presentation in TOURVILLE-SUR-ARQUES (76)

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