Free festival of street arts on the banks of the Etang de Berre: an artistic stroll from one city to another.
Early August, a dozen companies from France and elsewhere will bring street arts, performing arts and culture to Istres and to the banks of the Etang de Berre.
Friday August 5th in Saint-Mitre les Remparts
THE SHEEP CAROUSEL
Company of Irque and Fien (Belgium)
POETIC CIRCUS SHOW
9:30 p.m. (60′) – In front of “La Manare”
Circus of the present moment: A broom for a trapeze, a piano-acrobat countless sheep, a strange frigate… A body-tent, a thought woven with stars. The track is revealed… Thousands of sheep descend it. The carrousel des Moutons is seeing with your eyes wide closed, rolling around in the dark night so as not to be awake any longer. Dirque and Fien in wonderland and the impossible becomes real. It’s a show that knots the time of a silky sheet, with the rebound of a ball. This is the spontaneity of street theatre. It is the power of the circus, returned to its essence…
From 6 years old
Saturday August 6 in Saint-Chamas
EP.1 THE SOT OF DEATH – EP.2 THE JUMP OF AMOR
Cie Teatro Golondrino
PUPPET BETWEEN
EP.1 LE SÔT DE LA MORT – 5 p.m. – 5:20 p.m. (20′) – Blowing snow
EP.2 LE SAUT DEL AMOR – 7:30 p.m. – 7:55 p.m. (20′) – The boiling pond
Puppets on string and without words A little gem of manipulation in homage to Tex Avery’s cartoons; served in a roar of inventiveness of stories imbued with nostalgia, humor and poetry. Jojo, an intrepid and sensitive insect, shares his fear of passing time, his passions and his love disappointments.
From 1 year
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FIRST AID-DISASTER ROUTES
Cie Odile Pinson
HUMOR-WALKING THEATER
5:30 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. (45′) Blowing snow / Parade
In a caustic road movie, Karine and Stéphane will guide the public to danger zones in the heart of the city. Three game stations where their bravery will be able to express itself more and more seriously. The public is urgently invited to follow them on a catastrophic journey. Equipped with their mini intervention car, they will try to be the best rescuers of all time! For better and for worse !
From 3 years
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THE ROPE AND ON
Cie Hydragon
COMEDY CIRCUS
6:30 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. (45′) Tamarisk garden
A tall, slender young man, with curling locks and a mischievous air, arrives flanked by a mustachioed man who is a little chubby and much older. They set up a huge tripod from which hangs a long smooth rope. And while the eldest improvises on the accordion a song as light as air, the young boy climbs the rope to caress the stars. Defying mocking rhymes and weightlessness, he pulls off incredible acrobatics. Beyond the feat, it is the grace and the poetic sweetness of the performance that catches our gaze to the clouds.
From 3 years
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ADORO
Cie Alta Gama
COMEDY CIRCUS9:15 p.m. – 10 p.m. (45′) Place de l’Horloge
The vicissitudes of a couple against love. She comes to dazzle us with her voice and her music. He, his assistant, who does not help, only interrupts. A perfect clown game. Two idiots who get confused and fight. The result is always the same: laughter from the audience. A show that invites us to love, laugh and dream. A place where couple relationships and their complications are made with humor and joy. A clown show with live music and incredible acrobatics on the bike.
From 3 years
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CIRCUS: JUMP CUT
Cie Double Take Cinematic
COMEDY CIRCUS
10:15 p.m. – 11 p.m. (45′) Blowing snow
Flamboyant and a little melodramatic, Summer and Raphaël seem to live their daily lives like any other couple. [ordinaire]. They listen to music, drink coffee, get drunk, jump on the couch, hang on the lamp, watch TV… All the usual things. Until the day they receive a phone call that changes their lives forever.
A show that offers a poetic perspective on how a couple deals with grief and depression and how they fight to find hope.
From 3 years
Sunday August 7 in Istres
EP.1 THE SOT OF DEATH – EP.2 THE JUMP OF AMOR
Cie Teatro Golondrino
PUPPET BETWEEN
EP.1 THE FOOL OF DEATH
EP.2 LEAP OF AMOR
10:30 a.m. (50′) – 5:30 p.m. (25′) -1 Haut allées J-Jaurès
A little gem of manipulation in homage to the cartoons of Tex-Avery; served in a roar of inventiveness of stories imbued with nostalgia, humor and poetry. Jojo, an intrepid and sensitive insect, shares his fear of passing time, his passions and his love disappointments.
From 1 year
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FIRST AID
Company Odile Pinson (France)
WALKING HUMOR THEATER
BURLESQUE THEATER
10:55 a.m. (45′) – Pl. Darrason, wandering towards the Ch-de-Gaulle esplanade
In a caustic road movie, Karine and Stéphane will guide the public to danger zones in the heart of the city. Three game stations where their bravery will be able to express itself more and more seriously. The public is urgently invited to follow them on a catastrophic journey. Equipped with their mini intervention car, they will try to be the best rescuers of all time! For better or for worse!
From 3 years
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FRIDA KAHLO
Co. Burdin Rhode (France)
ENTRESORT THEATER
11h (50′) Place of the Olivier theater
5:15 p.m. (50′) Baumes Castle
Two “storytellers” will be the cantors of this unique woman, around a “Théâtre à Manivelle”, in a nod to the “photographic room” of her father. Image box where unpublished paintings illustrating the time, early 20th century Mexico, its satirical cabarets, the heroes of the revolution, the Aztec roots, tempestuous loves and… The invisible, the dreams of Frida to the last and this time Catrina will have the last
word…
From 6 years old
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ADORO
Cie Alta Gama
COMEDY CIRCUS
11:45 a.m. (45′) – 6 p.m. (45′) – Middle Jean-Jaurès alleys
The vicissitudes of a couple against love. She comes to dazzle us with her voice and her music. He, his assistant, who does not help, only interrupts. A perfect clown game. Two idiots who get confused and fight. The result is always the same: laughter from the audience. A show that invites us to love, laugh and dream. A place where couple relationships and their complications are made with humor and joy. A clown show with live music and incredible acrobatics on the bike.
From 6 years old
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VOX MACHINA
Mechanical Vibrato Company (France)
WALKING HUMOR KARAOKE
12 p.m. – 5 p.m. – 7:20 p.m. (45′) -Pl. G-Darrason
A machine constructed from a dismembered church harmonium plays the accompanying music, while another machine unrolls the lyrics written large on wallpaper. So much for the decor! Gernard POTTIOK, master of ceremonies for this somewhat special karaoke, will invite the public choir to sing with him. The repertoire is known, funny, sometimes surprising.
From 4 years old
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PARISIAN MEETING
Cie French Wings Crew (France)
DANCE
12:35 p.m. – 7:50 p.m. (25′) – Low Jean-Jaurès alleys
Two men, two strangers, two worlds. The meeting of two characters who try to communicate but indulge in a duality fueled by the incomprehension of the other. The French Wingz break down the barriers of hip hop by revisiting the great classics of French variety such as Mistral Gagnant by Renaud and La Bohème by Charles Aznavour, but also by mixing the arts and the use of the Chinese pole…
From 5 years
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BART
Cie Epi C All (France)
CLOWN AND CIRCUS
5:10 p.m. (45′) – Place du Théâtre de l’Olivier
Barto is a nice, somewhat eccentric character who knows how to please his audience as much with his technical exploits as with his goofy tricks. Contortionist, clown, he defines himself rather as an acrobatic comic. You have to see this lunar character wearing a leather helmet of yesteryear pass a hanger, Barto juggles with flaming torches.
For 2 years
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THE LIFE AHEAD
Co. National female dogs
(France)
TEXT THEATER
6:15 p.m. (1h’) – Place des Carmes
It’s the love story between a little Arab boy and an old Jewish woman… This text, written by the most enigmatic author of his generation, offers us the possibility of having a view devoid of religious prejudices and cultural. The only conflict is in the face of life, the other walls fall.
From 10 years old
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FANDO AS LIS
Company KRILATI (France)
CIRCUS
6:50 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. (50′) – Arles gate
Fando as Lis, poetic circus. Between a game of seduction and a game of strength, a game of balance and flexibility, this encounter between a very shy man and a little bitch transports the spectator into a burlesque universe, where pleasure and the joy of living remain despite everything, the essential elements of their principle of life.
From 6 years old
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NORTHWEST PASSAGE
Cie Tonne (France)
TEXT THEATER
6:50 p.m. (90′) – Shores of the pond
Roald Amundsen, the famous explorer, disappeared on June 18, 1928 off Bear Island. A ceremony is organized in his honor in the public square.
The crew of the Gjoa comes to tell the story of the crossing of the Northwest Passage and to embark the spectators in this epic. A large-scale theatrical story to share the taste for adventure and encourage everyone to brave their own storms, both intimate and collective.
Starting from 7 years old
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JUMP-CUT
Cie Double Take Cinematic
Circus (France)
COMEDY CIRCUS
8:30 p.m. (45′) – Jean-Lebas
Flamboyant and a little melodramatic, Summer and Raphaël seem to live their daily lives like any other couple. [ordinaire]. They listen to music, drink coffee, get drunk, jump on the couch, hang on the lamp, watch TV… All the usual things. Until the day they receive a phone call that changes their lives forever.
A show that offers a poetic perspective on how a couple deals with grief and depression and how they fight to find hope.
From 3 years
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OCTOPUS MADELEINES
Co. Kadravresky
COMEDY CIRCUS
9:25 p.m. (55′) – Marie-Mauron booth
Created in 2012 by 5 young circus artists who dabble in everything, the company has adopted this literary exercise invented by the surrealists as its watchword. So much so that she took the name, like a signature: Kadavresky.
From 6 years old
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CELESTE & CELESTINE
Cie Inko Nito (France)
GIANT LIGHT-UP PUPPETS
9:45 p.m. – Pl. Darrason, wandering towards the Ch-de-Gaulle esplanade
Céleste was born from this mysterious elsewhere of which we are all custodians, towards which we each walk at our own pace. Like a star in the night, it lights us up on the way. Just like us, Celeste comes from far enough away to have forgotten her origins, choosing her destination, the Earth, marrying our human forms, discovering matter, experimenting with gravity…
From 3 years
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