Compagnie des Quidams Totems

Description

Giant evanescent figures, dressed in long coats, the Totems will wander through the crowd at Derby’s Riverlights.

They attract you, brush against you, caress you until they sometimes envelop you. Their movements are made of controlled imbalances and incessant whirlpools. They vibrate, dance and play to rhythmic and joyful music.

The light that inhabits them is the witness of their inner life, governed by a Passenger who animates them.

At the end of the journey, the members of this imaginary tribe will experience their rite of passage to adulthood, which the audience will be invited to witness.

SHE, their initiatory guide, is there, SHE is waiting for them. It is time for the Passengers to part with the Totems they have always carried. Dance, games, love and joy are at the heart of this liberation. At the end of this ritual of independence, the light and breath of the Totems are extinguished to make way for new Passengers.